Astro160 Frontiers and Controversies in Astrophysics 2007 YALE (24 VIDEOS)
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Charles Bailyn is the Thomas E. Donnelley Professor of Astronomy and Physics and Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Department of Astronomy at Yale.
Course Description
This course (which is for non science majors) focuses on three particularly interesting areas of astronomy that are advancing very rapidly: Extra-Solar Planets, Black Holes, and Dark Energy. Particular attention is paid to current projects that promise to improve our understanding significantly over the next few years. The course explores not just what is known, but what is currently not known, and how astronomers are going about trying to find out.
About Your Professor
Charles Bailyn is the Thomas E. Donnelley Professor of Astronomy and Physics and Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Department of Astronomy at Yale. He earned a B.S. in astronomy and physics from Yale in 1981 and a Ph.D. in astronomy from Harvard in 1987. His recent research efforts have focused on observations of binary star systems containing black holes and on stellar collisions in dense star clusters. He has lectured on "How To See a Black Hole" to school groups, Yale alumni, and amateur astronomical societies. He is the author of over 100 scientific papers, and his work was featured in the PBS mini-series, Mysteries of Deep Space.
Course Resources
Course Video Lectures, Audio Lectures, Lecture Notes, & Transcripts
Course Downloads
The file below contains all of the course pages from this course and may be downloaded for offline use. The file is offered in .zip format; you must have access to a suitable decompression application to unzip the contents before use. After decompressing the file, please click "start.html" to launch.
[ download all course pages ] - size 103.7 MB - file type application/zip
To download the media files from the course (audio and video), please click the links in the Class Sessions section below. Apple QuickTime 7.2 or higher is required to view the videos, while the MP3 files will play in any MP3-compatible device/player.
