Undergraduate course, Rice University, Department of Physics and Astronomy, 2025
A hands-on introduction to astronomical imaging and computing for astronomical data analysis. Students use telescopes, CCDs, and computers to obtain, process, and analyze their own images. The course uses both local and remote observations and introduces state of the art data analysis software.
Undergraduate course for majors, Rice University, Department of Physics and Astronomy, 2024
A hands-on introduction to modern techniques of observational astronomy. Students use telescopes, CCDs, and computers to obtain and analyze their own images and spectra of solar system, galactic, and extragalactic objects. The course employs the campus observatory, dark sky observing sites, and state of the art data analysis software.
Undergraduate course for non-majors, Rice University, Department of Physics and Astronomy, 2023
An introductory course for students in academic programs. The formation, evolution, and death of stars; the composition and evolution of galaxies; the structure and evolution of the universe.
Graduate seminar, Rice University, Department of Physics and Astronomy, 2023
Physics of star and planet information, including molecular cloud dynamics and chemistry, circumstellar accretion disks, jets, dust, debris disks, atmospheres rotation, and magnetic fields of young stars, binaries, brown dwarfs, comets, Kuiper belt objects, giant planet formation and discoveries of extra solar planets.