Cavendish Astrophysics Course Synopses

• Michaelmas Term
  • Astronomical Techniques (Chris Haniff, 8 lectures)
  • Radiation & radiative transfer (Keith Grainge, 8 lectures)
  • Fluids, stellar dynamics, magnetic fields (Paul Alexander, 8 lectures)
  • Statistics & probability (Guy Pooley 4 lectures)
  • Theory and practice of observing (Richard Hills, 4 lectures)
  • Interferometry (John Young, 4 lectures)
  • Star formation & evolution (Dave Green and John Richer, 8 lectures)
  • Inverse problems (Mike Hobson, 5 lectures)
  • Observational cosmology (Mike Jones and Rudiger Kneissl, 8 lectures)
• Lent Term
  • AGN, galaxies and clusters (Katherine Inskip, 8 lectures)
  • Applied Electromagnetics (Ghassan Yassin, 4 lectures)
  • Partial coherence and quantum optics in astronomy (Stafford Withington, 4 lectures)
  • Order-of-magnitude astrophysics (Sanjoy Mahajan, 6 lectures)
  • Theoretical cosmology (Anthony Challinor and Anthony Lasenby, 8 lectures)