Galaxies: Structure, Dynamics and Evolution

Contact hours

21 lectures in total

Tutorials/Assignments

One per couple of weeks

Textbooks of interest

Galactic dynamics: Binney and Tremaine

Galaxy formation and evolution: Mo, van den Bosch and White

Lecture notes: Will try to maintain python notebooks, but these notes will heavily borrow from the texts above. Therefore, there will be quite some overlap between the notes and some of these texts. Authoratative versions will always be found in the above texts. I will also use codes which will use functions from the packages galpy and astro-gala for galactic potentials, orbit integrations. The notes will also make use of publicly available python packages like numpy, scipy, matplotlib.

Some more useful resources from which the notes will borrow:

Final examination

Software coding assignment (details to be shared)

Grading scheme

Classroom engagement (30)

Tutorials/Assignments (30)

Coding assignment (40)

Tutors

Amit Kumar

Divya Rana

Navin Chaurasiya

Aim of the lecture notes

These lecture notes are an evolving document and will aid as reference material. I will try to keep it updated via github (open github accounts if you do not already have them) and add all of the members as collaborators. If you find interesting things you would like to add to these lecture notes, then please fork the project and send pull requests to me for extra brownie points.