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3.00 Credits
Credits: 3 Selected topics in computational mathematics not covered in fixed-content computational mathematics courses. Prerequisites Permission of instructor. Notes May be repeated for credit as needed. Hours of Lecture or Seminar per week 3 Hours of Lab or Studio per week 0
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Credits: 3 Introduces global system interactions responsible for global environmental change. Discusses natural causes of past and present global changes, and how human activities affect them; and ecological and human consequences of global changes. Topics include climate and hydrological systems, global warming, deforestation, ozone depletion, ecological system dynamics, introduction to climate and global change monitoring, satellite instrumentation and calibration, and model predictions. Prerequisites Course in ecology, environmental geology, or atmospheric physics; or permission of instructor. Hours of Lecture or Seminar per week 3 Hours of Lab or Studio per week 0
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3.00 Credits
Credits: 3 Cross-Listed with EOS 754 Covers accessing and applying Earth observations and remote-sensing data for Earth system science research and applications. Major topics are data formats, analysis and visualization tools, advanced data analysis methods, and data applications. Also covers combining innovative information technology techniques and Earth science data to set up online data centers for accessing data through the web. Prerequisites EOS 753 or permission of instructor. Hours of Lecture or Seminar per week 3 Hours of Lab or Studio per week 0
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Credits: 3 Cross-Listed with EOS 757 Covers retrieval, analysis, and application of geophysical parameters derived from remotely sensed data for Earth system research and applications. Includes theory of visible and infrared and microwave remote sensing, heritage sensors, sensor calibration, retrieval algorithms, validation, and error estimates. Prerequisites CSI 753 or permission of instructor. Hours of Lecture or Seminar per week 3 Hours of Lab or Studio per week 0
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Credits: 3 Covers elements of modeling and analysis of Earth and space sciences data and systems. Concentrates on sample projects and student-initiated projects to use visualization and graphical analysis techniques as they apply to modeling of complex data sets and systems. Uses several different analysis and visualization packages. Spacecraft data sets from the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) Backgrounds Data Center and other NRL data sets are available for course projects; perusal of web data sets also possible. Modeling and analysis accompanied by appropriate readings from current literature. Prerequisites Permission of instructor. Hours of Lecture or Seminar per week 3 Hours of Lab or Studio per week 0
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3.00 Credits
Credits: 3 Cross-Listed with ASTR 761 Covers particle methods to solve variety of physical systems. Emphasizes study and development of numerical results, and visualization of these results in complex physical systems. Applications and projects include stellar and galaxy dynamics, smoothed particle hydrodynamics, plasma simulations, and semiconductor device theory algorithms on parallel and vectorized systems. Prerequisites PHYS 613/CSI 780 and CSI 700; or permission of instructor. Hours of Lecture or Seminar per week 3 Hours of Lab or Studio per week 0
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3.00 Credits
Credits: 3 Covers statistical and data analysis methods applicable to problems in space science, remote sensing, and astrophysics. Includes parametric and nonparametric hypothesis testing, parameter estimation, correlation analysis, time series analysis, spatial analysis, and image reconstruction. Emphasizes imperfect nature of actual data sets and hypothesis. Examples drawn from current space science research. Prerequisites ASTR 530 or permission of instructor. Hours of Lecture or Seminar per week 3 Hours of Lab or Studio per week 0
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3.00 Credits
Credits: 3 Cross-Listed with ASTR 764 Covers statistical mechanics concepts important in astrophysics. Presents unified approach to particle acceleration and interaction theory based on analytical and numerical analysis of Boltzmann and Liouville equations. Discusses computational methods relevant to particle transport problems, with emphasis on Fokker-lanck and Monte Carlo solution techniques. Applications from space sciences include studies of cosmic ray acceleration, photon comptonization, particle transport in the near-Earth environment, energy transport in stellar atmospheres, and self-gravitating system dynamics. Prerequisites ASTR 530. Hours of Lecture or Seminar per week 3 Hours of Lab or Studio per week 0
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3.00 Credits
Credits: 3 Cross-Listed with ASTR 765 Overview of atomic and nuclear physics. Covers nuclear reactions of use to high-energy astrophysics; radiation processes in cosmic plasmas, emphasizing quantum mechanical calculations; stellar evolution and nucleosynthesis; computational models of stellar evolution; binary stars and accretion disks; numerical models of the structure of accretion disks; compact stars, white dwarfs, neutron stars, and black holes; acceleration processes and cosmic rays; interstellar medium and propagation of cosmic rays; high-energy processes in the center of galaxies; and ground- and space-based techniques and observations. Prerequisites PHYS 502, ASTR 530, and PHYS 613/CSI 780; or permission of instructor. Hours of Lecture or Seminar per week 3 Hours of Lab or Studio per week 0
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3.00 Credits
Credits: 3 Cross-Listed with ASTR 766 Covers special relativity, four-dimensional space-time, general relativity, non-Euclidean geometries, geodesic and field equations, test of general relativity theory, black holes, cosmic background radiation, thermodynamic considerations in cosmology, and cosmological models. Prerequisites ASTR 530 and MATH 314, or permission of instructor. Hours of Lecture or Seminar per week 3 Hours of Lab or Studio per week 0
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