Lecture Notes

Here's a listing of lecture dates for the term:
TO BE UPDATED AFTER THE CLASS ORGANIZATIONAL MEETING!!

Week #1: Introduction to the structure of the ISM, molecular clouds

         Lecture One (29Mar05 - GAB on travel), Lecture Two (31Mar05)
         Suggested reading: Chapter 1 Duley & Williams, Spitzer;
             Panel discussion from Interstellar Processes, pp. 225-244.
             IAU Symposium #178, pp. 343-356 (dust composition/models)

Week #2: Gas phase chemical reaction kinetics, H₂ formation on grains

         Lecture Three (05Apr05), Lecture Four (07Apr05)
         Suggested reading: Chapters 2,3 Duley & Williams, pp. 22-65
             Chapter 6, pp. 115-134

Week #3: Physical and chemical processes in diffuse clouds, dark cloud observations

         Lecture Five (12Apr05), Lecture Six (14Apr05)
         Suggested reading: Chapter 4 Duley & Williams, E.F. van Dishoeck review
             H₃⁺ and diffuse cloud chemistry, H₃⁺ dissociative recombination

Week #4: Chemical processes, cycles in dark clouds

         Lecture Seven (19Apr05), Lecture Eight (21Apr05)
         Suggested reading: Langer review in PP II,
             van Dishoeck review in PP III, pp. 163-211, appendix.
             Peer reviewed articles on second row chemistry:
             Prasad and Huntress (S) , Thorne et al. (P), Blake et al. (Cl)

Week #5: Complex molecules in dense clouds, chemistry on grains

         Lecture Nine (26Apr05), Lecture Ten (28Apr05)
         Suggested reading: Duley and Williams pp. 173-183 (isotopes), Ch. 5 (surface chemistry),
             ice/hot core reviews in IAU Symposium No. 178 (pp. 45-88).
             Review articles on complex molecule chemistry, ices (Charnley review in library):
             Triply deuterated ammonia, Benzene theory, Benzene obs., Grain mantle obs.

Week #6: Big molecules/small grains (?), introduction to star formation

         Lecture Eleven (03May05), Lecture Twelve (05May05)
         Suggested reading: Allamandola et al. in Interstellar Processes
             pp. 471-490 (PAHs), Shu et al. in PP III, pp. 3-46 (star formation)
             (PP IV has many excellent overviews on star formation, and for those who
             want detailed reading, I'd start here. Very recent and up-to-date.)

Week #7: Circumstellar accretion disk physics & chemistry

         Lecture Thirteen (10May05), Lecture Fourteen (12May05)
         Suggested reading: van Dishoeck et al. in PP III, p. 211+
             Langer et al. in PP IV, pp. 29-58, Outer disk chemistry (theory), Inner disk chemistry (theory)

Week #8: The chemistry of comets and meteorites

         Lecture Fifteen (17May05), Lecture Sixteen (19May05)
         Suggested reading: For comets and the outer solar nebula, see Irvine et al.and Lunine
         et al. chapters in PP IV, pp. 1159-1200, 1055-1080 and     IAU 197 Comet Review
           For meteortie timescales, see Wadhwa and Russell, PP IV, pp. 995-1018;
           the organic chemistry of meteorites is covered by Cronin et al. in
           Meteorites and the Early Solar System, pp. 819-860 (a great reference).

Week #9: Planet formation & migration, Prebiotic chemistry

         Lecture Seventeen (24May05), Lecture Eighteen (26May05)
         Suggested reading: Jupiter formation via disk instabilities (theory)
              Extrasolar planet eccentricities (theoretical analysis)

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