(* = problem set due)

Extra-Solar Planets

Jan 13: Introduction
Jan 15: Planetary Orbits


Jan 20: Our Solar System
Jan 22: Other Solar Systems: Hot Jupiters*


Jan 27: What are Hot Jupiters?
Jan 29: Planetary Transits*


Feb 3: Other Exoplanet Discovery Techniques
Feb 5: TEST

Feb 10: The non-discovery of Vulcan and General Relativity
Feb 12: Special and General Relativity


Feb 17: Tests of General Relativity
Feb 19: Black Holes*


Feb 24: Accreting Black Holes
Feb 26: Supermassive Black Holes*


Mar 3: Gravity Waves

Mar 5: Dynamically Confirmed Black Hole Candidates*


SPRING BREAK !


Mar 24: The Expanding Universe
Mar 26: TEST


Mar 31: The Fate of the Universe
Apr 2: Cosmological Distances


Apr 7: Dark Matter: WIMPs and MACHOs
Apr 9: Finding Dark Matter (guest lecturer, Prof. Marla Geha)*


Apr 14: Dark Energy and the Accelerating Universe
Apr 16: The Supernova Factory (guest lecturer, Dr. Richard Scalzo)*


Apr 21: Other Constraints: the Cosmic Microwave Background and the Growth of Structure
Apr 23: The Multiverse and Theories of Everything*


May 12 (9am): Final Exam