ASTRONOMY 497A
Fall Quarter 2005 Fridays 1:30-2:20 PAA 212
Instructor: Paula Szkody C311
PAB 543-1988
Web Address: http://www.astro.washington.edu/astro497a/
Speakers -- Topics -- Reading
Sept 30 --- Prof. Paula Szkody ---
Research on Cataclysmic Variables --- Ch. 2 in Cataclysmic Variable Stars (Warner) and AJ, 126, 1499, 2003 szkody.ppt
October 7 -- Dave Joswiak --- Explorations with an Electron Microscope
October 14 --- Prof. Zeljko Ivezic --- Science Projects with SDSS --- http://www.astro.washington.edu/sdss/
October 21 --- Prof. Eric Agol --- Planetary transits
October 28 -- Prof. Bruce Balick --- Planetary Nebulae--- Scientific American, 291, 26 July 2004
November 4 -- Dr. Annie Mejia --- Formation of Planets --- http://depts.washington.edu/astrobio/about/ab_009.pdf
November 11 - Veteran's Day, no class
November 18 -- Prof. Woody Sullivan --- Astrobiology --- http://astrobiology.arc.nasa.gov/roadmap/goals_and_objectives.html and http://astrobio.net/
November 25 - Thanksgiving vacation
December 2 -- Prof. Suzanne Hawley --- Flare Stars ---
December 9 -- Dr. Andy Becker --- Detecting Variability
Course Requirements
For each talk, write a brief paragraph summarizing the information in the talk and give a
possible research project that you would like to pursue in that area of
research. Summaries will be collected on Nov 4 for the first 5 talks and
are due Dec 14 for the last 4.