[Drand] FW: PhD course "Radiative Transfer Across Disciplines", 5hp

[Michael Odelius]

Hi.

The department for Astronomy is organizing a PhD course on Radiative Transfer Across Disciplines (5 hp), which might also be of interest for PhD students in Physics. An email discussing the contents of the course that has recently been circulated to pre-registered students on the course follows below. If you are interested in taking the course, contact Anders Jerkstrand at "anders.jerkstrand at astro.su.se".

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Hi all,

Welcome to the PhD course “Radiative Transfer Across Disciplines”, to be held in LP2 this spring, starting March 26.

I am coordinating the course, which will be taught by myself, Karin Lind, Jorrit Leenarts, Evan O’Connor, Jaime de la Cruz Rodriguez,
and Garrelt Mellema. We are excited to have so many of you signed up already and interested in the course!

Most important news first : the course will award 5hp, instead of the preliminarily planned 4hp.

An Athena page is under construction, and you should all now have been added to this. You can now there see
the dates for the planned lectures and computer labs. Syllabus and more detailed information about the contents
are soon forthcoming.

The overall structure of the course will be as follows:

Week 1  (March 25-29): Introduction (Anders)

One week break (Easter)

Week 2 (April 8-12) : Modelling spectral lines in the sun (Jaime)

Week 3 (April 15-19) : NLTE line formation in stellar atmospheres (Karin)

Week 4 (April 22-26) : Radiative transfer in MHD simulations of stellar atmospheres (Jorrit)

Week 5 (April 29-May 3) : Neutrino physics and radiative transfer (Evan)

One week break

Week 6 (May 13-17) : Modelling light curves and spectra of explosive transients  (Anders)

One week break

Week 7 (May 27-31) : Radiative transfer for H II regions on galactic and intergalactic scales (Garrelt)

The purpose of the course is to give you exposure and hands-on experience with state-of-the-art radiative transfer
techniques and tools used in various fields at the astrophysics research fore-front. Hopefully, ideas for cross-discipline
developments will arise.

Apart from the introduction week, the other 6 blocks (weeks 2-7) will consist of two lectures, followed by a computer lab (2-3h).
Examination will be based on passing the computer labs - it is up to each block teacher whether this is an
on-the-spot examination, or via a report hand-in. There is no final exam, oral of written, in the course.
The teachers will provide lecture notes.

More detailed information will come before the course starts.
Should you have any questions please let me know - for now, make sure to reserve the course dates in your calanders.
Best regards
Anders
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