Teaching Experience
I enjoy teaching and try to do it as much as possible. Currently, I fill in for lectures in optical engineering, a graduate course led by Jim Breckinridge in the Caltech aerospace engineering department. Courses for which I have served as a TA are listed below; these are all in the Caltech Astronomy department.
AY101 - Physics of
Stars
Fall 2011
Instructor: Wal Sargent
Physics of stellar interiors and atmospheres. Properties of stars,
stellar spectra, radiative transfer, line formation. Stellar structure,
stellar evolution. Nucleosynthesis in stars. Stellar oscillations.
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AY126 - Interstellar and
Intergalactic Medium
Winter 2011
Instructors: Anneila Sargent, Nick
Scoville
Physical processes in the interstellar medium. Ionization, thermal and dynamic balance of interstellar medium, molecular clouds, hydrodynamics, magnetic fields, H II regions, supernova remnants, star
formation, global structure of the interstellar medium.
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AY105 - Optical
Instrumentation Lab
Spring 2012
Instructors: Lynne Hillenbrand, Chris
Martin
An opportunity for astronomy and physics undergraduates (juniors and seniors) to gain firsthand experience with the basic instrumentation tools of modern optical and infrared astronomy. The 10 weekly lab experiments are expected to include radiometry measurements, geometrical optics, optical aberrations and ray tracing, spectroscopy, fiber optics, CCD electronics, CCD characterization, photon counting detectors, vacuum and cryogenic technology, and stepper motors and
encoders.
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