G6004: Student Presentations
All students will give a short (20 min) presentation during the last
two weeks of class, on a topic of your choice. These talks are
design to give you the opportunity to explore some aspect of stellar
structure and evolution that is of interest to you. This could be
an investigation into a related topic that we did not touch on at all
in the class, or a more in-depth look at a subject that we did cover.
The level of presentation should be similar to a typical lecture,
but please keep in mind that 20 minutes is quite short, so prepare well
in advance. Also, please keep your topic fairly specific -- a
general review of a wide area (e.g. star formation) is not as useful as
an in-depth look at a particular area (e.g. observations of
protostellar outflows). A list of possible topics is given below,
but please do not limit yourself to this list. Let me know your
choice of topic by Nov 16.
An incomplete list of possible presentation topics:
- Some aspect of star formation: e.g., the origin of the IMF,
turbulent star formation, massive star formation, protostellar jets,
observations of protostellar objects, etc.
- Binary star evolution (lots and lots of good topics here)
- Planet formation (lots of possible topics here)
- Stellar winds: e.g., how are they driven, how are they observed
- What future space missions will tell us about stellar structure (e.g., Gaia)
- Relativistic stellar structure
- Magnetars
- Numerical integration of the stellar structure equations
- How rotation affects stellar structure
- Detailed nuclear synthesis
- Electron shielding
- Neutrino detection
- Historical review of stellar structure
- Stellar collisions
- Neutron stars
- Black hole accretion
- Accretion disks
- The solar cycle
- Helioseismology
- PN formation
The current order for students talks is:
| Neil |
Nov 30 |
| Taka |
Nov 30 |
| Kathryn |
Nov 30 or Dec 5 |
| Cameron |
Dec 5 |
| Emily |
Dec 5 |
| Maureen |
Dec 5 or later |
| Duane |
Dec 7 |
So far (Nov 21/06) the following topics have been chosen:
- Magnetars (Taka)
- Planet Formation (Emily)
- Massive star formation or first stars (Duane)
- Wolf-Rayet stars (Kathryn)
- IMF or Solar cycles (Cameron)
- Novae (Neil)
- Accretion disks or Helioseismology or rotation (Maureen)