Preliminary Schedule

1/6 First day meeting

1/9 Introduction and Review of Astro-Background

1/13 Basic Thermodynamics of Plasmas & Photons

1/20 The Equation of State (EOS)

1/23 Fundamentals of Radiative Transfer & Simple RT

1/27 Radiative Processes from moving charges

1/30 Bremsstrahlung

2/3 Synchrotron Radiation

2/6 Comptonization

2/10 Radiative Processes in Atoms: Atomic Structure

2/13 Bound-Bound and bound-free Processes

2/17 Line Profiles and Two-Level Atoms

2/20 Basic Equations of Radiation Hydrodynamics & Classical Stellar Atmospheres

2/24 Analytical Radiation Transport I

2/27 Analytical Radiation Transport II

3/2 Classical Stellar Atmospheres: Stellar Spectroscopy

3/12 Midterm

3/16 Numerical Radiation Transport I : Feautrier Method and Solutions (Observers Frame)

3/19 Rybicki-Method in moving atmospheres (e.g. Supernovae) (Comoving Frame)

3/23 The non-LTE Problem I: Complete Linearization

3/23 II: The Equivalent-two-level approach

3/27 " III: Accelerated Lambda Iteration

4/2 Limiting Cases I: The 'Sobolev' Approximation and 'Karp Opacities'

4/7 " II: Incomplete Rosseland Cycles (Nebulae, HII,Molecular Clouds, Galaxies, etc.)

4/9 Methods of 3D Radiation Transport: Eddington Tensor Methods

4/13 Monte-Carlo Methods I

4/16 Monte-Carlo Methods II

4/20 Review for Final

4/24 Final (5:30-7:30pm)