Note that the lecture material may vary, but the assignment dates are fixed. Visit this webpage to see updates to the topics.
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| Jan. 16 | Introductions; History of the ISM and Star Formation | Syllabus |
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| Jan. 18 | The ISM | |
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| Jan. 23 | Molecular Clouds | The Milky Way in Molecular Clouds: Dame et al. 2001, ApJ, 547, 792 | Brian O'Neill & Hsin-Lun Kuo
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| Jan. 25 | GMC Properties | Giant Molecular Clouds in Local Group Galaxies: Blitz et al. 2007, PPV, p81 | Ki Jeong Yim & Brad Rockwell
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| Jan. 30 | Turbulence in GMCs | Turbulent Gas Flows in the Rosette and G216-2.5 Molecular Clouds: Heyer et al. 2006, ApJ, 643, 956 | Sandor Van Wassenhove & Kristopher Czaja
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| Feb. 1 | Lifetime of GMCs | H I Narrow Self-Absorption in Dark Clouds: Goldsmith et al. 2005, ApJ, 622, 938 (only browse Section 6) | Nick Hakobian & Jerry Shiao
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| Feb. 6 | GMC Cores | Massive Quiescent Cores in Orion: II. Core Mass Function: Li et al. 2007, ApJ, 655, 351 | Josh Dolence & Nick Indriolo
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| Feb. 8 | Starless Cores | An Observational Perspective of Low-Mass Dense Cores I: Di Francesco et al. 2007, PPV, p17 | Duncan Christie & Tyler Natoli
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| Feb. 13 | Class Canceled | I dunno. Watch Snow Day |
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| Feb. 15 | Protostellar Core Evolution | An Observational Perspective of Low-Mass Dense Cores II: Ward-Thompson et al. 2007, PPV, p33 | Kristopher Czaja & William Kormos
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| Feb. 20 | Protostellar Structures | Unveiling the Circumstellar Envelope and Disk: Looney et al. 2000, ApJ, 529, 477 | Hsin-Lun Kuo & Kristen Samuels
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| Feb. 22 | Chemistry of Class 0 sources | Extreme Deuteration and Hot Corinos: Ceccarelli et al. 2007, PPV, p47 | Brad Rockwell & Brett Hayes
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| Feb 27 | Class 0 Outflows | The Evolution of Outflow-Envelope Interactions in Low-Mass Protostars: Arce et al. 2006, ApJ, 646, 1070 | Hsin-Fang Chiang & Stacey Alberts
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| Mar. 1 | Classification of YSOs | Stellar Properties of Embedded Protostars: White et al. 2007, PPV, p117 | William Kormos & Jana Bilikova
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| Mar. 6 | Outflows and jets | Observations of Jets and Outflows from Young Stars: Bally et al. 2007 | Kristen Samuels & Britt Lundgren
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| Mar. 8 | Circumstellar Disks | Circumstellar Dust Disks in Taurus-Auriga: The Submillimeter Perspective: Andrews et al. 2005 | Nick Indriolo & Alfredo Zenteno
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| Mar. 13 | Circumstellar Disks | Interferometric Spectro-imaging of Molecular Gas in Proto-Planetary Disks Dutrey et al. 2007 | Brett Hayes & Duncan Christie
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| Mar. 15 | Dust Evolution | Dust in Proto-Planetary Disks: Properties and Evolution: Natta et al. 2007 | Stacey Alberts & Josh Dolence
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| Mar. 27 | Chemistry of Disks | The Chemical Evolution of Protoplanetary Disks: Bergin et al. 2007 | Christian Luca & Nick Hakobian
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| Mar. 29 | The beginnning of Planets | Evolution of Circumstellar Disks Around Normal Stars: Meyer et al. 2007 | Jake O'Keefe & Woojin Kwon
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| Apr. 3 | Circumstellar Evolution | Gaseous Inner Disks: Najita et al. 2007 | Britt Lundgren & Kijeong Yim
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| Apr. 5 | The beginnning of Planets | Multi-Wavelength Imaging of Young Stellar Object Disks: Watson et al. 2007 | Jerry Shiao & Sandor Van Wassenhove
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| Apr. 10 | X-Ray Emission from YSOs | The Taurus Molecular Cloud: Multi-Wavelength Surveys with XMM-Newton, the Spitzer Space Telescope, and CFHT: Gudel et al. 2007 | Jonathan Seale & Hsin-Fang Chiang
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| Apr. 12 | Brown Dwarfs | The Formation of Brown Dwarfs: Observations: Luhman et al. 2007 | Tyler Natoli & Jake O'Keefe
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| Apr. 17 | Massive Stars | The Formation of Massive Stars: Beuther et al. 2007 | Alfredo Zenteno & Jeeseon Song
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| Apr. 19 | The Evolution of Massive Protostars | Ultra-Compact H II Regions and the Early Lives of Massive Stars: Hoare et al. 2007 | Woojin Kwon & Christian Luca
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| Apr. 24 | Guest Lecture: TBA | |
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| Apr. 26 | Young Clusters | The Structure and Evolution of Young Stellar Clusters: Allen et al. 2007 | Jana Bilikova & Jonathan Seale
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| May. 1 | YSOs in OB clusters/ICES | The Low-mass Populations in OB Associations: Briceno et al. 2007 | Jeeseon Song & Brian O'Neill
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