Instructor:
Prof. A. Klypin
Meeting Times:
Tuesdays and Thursdays, 12:00-13:15
Textbook:
"Galactic Dynamics" by Binney and Tremaine. Additional: Pringle and King ``Astrophysical Flows'', Landau andLifshitz ``Hydrodynamics''
Lecture Notes:
Available on-line: http://astronomy.nmsu.edu/aklypin/AST506/
Homeworks:
Given every other week
Exams:
Two written exams
Project:
Study dynamical evolution of a gravitational
system of thousands of particles using N-body code written by yourself.
The code must be parallelized using OpenMP.
system of thousands of particles using N-body code written by yourself.
The code must be parallelized using OpenMP.
Grades:
Homeworks 25%, Project 25%, Midterm 25%, Final 25%