Undergraduate Courses
- All of my current undergraduate course websites are hosted on the Avenue to Learn platform.
- Course syllabi are available on the Physics & Astronomy department's website.
- ASTRON 2E03 - Planetary Astronomy
(Winter 2023, 2024) -
Physical and mathematical foundation of planetary astronomy. Historical development of ideas about the solar system. A modern view of the planets; the origin and evolution of the solar system and planets around other stars.
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Useful links: Exoplanet transit and radial velocity simulators.
- BIOPHYS 3D03 - Origin of Life
(Winter 2024) -
A multidisciplinary survey course on the search for life on other planets and the origin of life. The course starts with the latest discoveries of habitable exoplanets, pre-biotic chemistry on the early Earth and habitable exoplanets, and the search for life in the solar system (Mars, icy Moons, Titan, etc.), then addresses the origin of genetic information and metabolism, the RNA world, and the origin of protocells.
Graduate Courses
TBD.