Methods of Theoretical Astrophysics

Harvard FAS

Theoretical Astrophysics is a division of astronomy that endeavors to reveal the physical processes underlying planets, stars, and galaxies. In astronomy, many of our questions are far too large-scale to be reproduced in a lab – we can’t merge two galaxies and see what happens directly. Instead, we rely on a combination of analytic and computational methods to reconstruct what our observations show. In this course, students will learn to combine cutting edge computational methods with…