Astronomy 218 - Stellar Dynamics and Galactic Evolution
This covers many aspects of galaxies, including:
- Fundamental properties, statistics, observations
- Stellar populations, gas & star formation, chemical evolution, dark matter halos
- Galaxy formation models and simulations
- Elliptical and disk galaxies: dynamics, scaling relations etc.
- Active galactic nuclei
- Groups and galaxy clusters, Interactions and mergers, large scale structure, and clustering
- The first galaxies, galaxy evolution
Past Instructors: Mariska Kriek