The Michigan Math and Science Scholars 2012

ASTRONOMY: Climbing the Distance Ladder: How Astronomers Survey the Universe

June 25th-July 6th, 2012

SCHEDULE

Instructors: Monica Valluri (Email: mvalluri@umich.edu) and Brendan Miller (Email: mbrendan@umich.edu)
Graduate Student Instructor: Jessica Young ( Email: jessjess@umich.edu )
Undergraduate Student Instructors: Trevor McNeill (email: tmcneill@umich.edu), Kyle Hinton (email: kyle.hinton0@gmail.com)
Location: 5179, 5180B, 5190 Angell Hall
This page is http://www.astro.lsa.umich.edu/~mvalluri/ucourses/mmss12/
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Subjects:

Old Detroit Observatory & Special collections

Party! NHM Planetarium, 3D Lab, SRT

Research & Jeopardy

Galactic Rotation Curve

Local Group Model

Final Presentations

	9am-10am	10am-11am	11am-12pm	12pm-1:30pm	1:30pm-2:30pm	2:30pm-3:30pm	3:30pm-4:30pm	EVENING
Sun, Jun 24						RECEPTION 3:45-5:00 Math Atrium
Mon, Jun 25	MMSS GENERAL ORIENTATION	Lec: Introduction (MV) 5179	EX: Parallax 5190		Old Detroit Obs. visit		Lec: Observing the Universe (MV) 5179
Tue, Jun 26	Lec: Gravity and Motion (MV) 5179	Angell Hall Planetarium	EX: Stellarium 5190		Manuscript Collection visit		Lec: HR Diagram (BM) 5179	Star Party at Peach Mtn. 9:30-11:30pm
Wed, Jun 27	No class late start at 10AM	LAB: Cepheid Variables 5179	Lec: Star Formation & Evolution (BM) 5179		Lec:Exoplanets (BM) 5180B	EX: Exoplanets 5190
Thu, Jun 28	LAB: Galactic Star Clusters 5179		Research		Quiz Bowl #1 5179	NH Museum	Planetarium	Old Detroit Observatory open house 9:30pm -11pm
Fri, Jun 29	Lec: Galaxy structure and evolution (MV) 5179	EX: Interaction with GalCrash	Lec: Intro. to SRT (BM) 5179		Visit to 3D Lab		EX: setup & activate SRT command file 5190
Sat, Jun 30
Sun, Jul 1
Mon, Jul 2	Lec: Rotation Curves (BM) 5179	EX: Analyze SRT Output5190	Titan News		LAB: Tully-Fisher relation 5179	Research 5190	Quiz Bowl #2 5179	ODO open house rain date
Tue, Jul 3	Structure on larger scales 5190 EX: Local Group with MATLAB 5190	Guest Lecture "Water" Ruud Visser 5179	Research 5190	Admissions Presentation, 170 Dennison	Prepare Scale Model 5180B	of Local Group	DATA SOURCE
Wed, Jul 4	Lec: Hubble Flow (MV) 5179	Set up scale model	of Local Group on State street		Movie	Lec: Dark matter (BM) 5179	EX: Explore Las Campanas Redshift Survey data & models 5190
Thu, Jul 5	Lec: SNe Ia & acceleration (BM) 5179	Research 5190			EX: Age of Universe 5179		Quiz Bowl #3 5179
Fri, Jul 6	Research presentations 5179		BM, MV Research, Wrap up5179		Ned Wright's 5190	ABCs of Distances Discussion	Movie
Lunch Event		Lunch		Field trip	Research	EXercise	LABoratory	Introduction

Download for SRT and MATLAB exercises: MMSS2012.zip

ODO: Old Detroit Observatory

Archive: MMSS 2011