Besides regularly teaching the undergraduate courses Einführung in die Astronomie I and II, I also offer the following courses on a regular basis:

Stellar Structure and Evolution:

How do stars form and how do they evolve? What are the major energy sources that power stars, and what happens when the energy reservoir has finished? And how do “old” stars regulate the formation of newer generations of stars? The goal of this course will be to understand stellar structure and evolution using known laws of physics. We will build on the theory of stars and use observations to test those theories. Overall, this course will cover all the basics and a few advanced topics in stellar evolution. It will be based on the online-only textbook by Onno Pols, “Stellar Structure and Evolution” as well as “Stellar Structure and Evolution” by Kippenhahn, Weigert and Weiss.

Galactic Astrophysics:

What components does the Milky Way has? How does the dynamics in the Galaxy work? What are our closest neighbor galaxies? How does the Milky Way fit in large scale structure of galaxies? The goal of this course is to understand our home Galaxy and its closest neighbors. We will look at the structure and components of the Milky Way as well as the evolution and the dynamics of the Milky Way and how the Milky Way fits in the overall context of galaxies. Overall, this course will cover all the basics and a few advanced topics in Galactic Astrophysics. It will be based on the textbook by Combes and Lequeux “The Milky Way - Structure, Dynamics, Formation and Evolution” and “Galaxies in the Universe” by Sparke and Gallagher.