Astronomy 123

COSMOLOGY and the ORIGIN of LIFE

1. Apr 1: Course Intro, Organization, General BS
2. Apr 3: Historical Cosmologies and Cultural Bias
3. Apr 5: More Historical Cosmologies

4. Apr 8: Evolving Solar System Models
5. Apr 10: Curvature and Causality
6. Apr 12: The Expanding Universe

7. Apr 15: The Microwave Background
8. Apr 17: The Evolution of the Universe in the First Hundreth Second
9. Apr 19: The Evolution of the Universe in the First Second

10. Apr 22: The Epoch of Nucleosynthesis
11. Apr 24: The Radiation Dominated Era and its End
12. Apr 26: All about Dark Matter

13. Apr 29: Galaxies, Galaxies, Galaxies
14. May 1: MIDTERM
15. May 3: Building the Periodic Table of Elements from Stars

16. May 6: The Formation of the Earth
17. May 8: The Evolution of the Earth's Atmosphere
18. May 10: Formation of Primitive Life in the Oceans

19. May 13: Formation of Primitive Life in the Oceans
20. May 15: Life Crawls on the Land: The Need for Ozone
21. May 17: Geological Catastrophe: Plate Tectonics

22. May 20: Climatological Catastrophe: Ice Ages
23. May 22: Evolution of Relative Intelligence
24. May 24: Is there Intelligent Life on the Earth?

25. May 27: NO CLASS
26. May 29: MIDTERM
27. May 31: The Probability of Extraterrestrial Intelligence

28. June 3: One Million or just One Civilization?
29. June 5: The Long Voyage: Colonization of Space
30. June 7: The Earth Speaks: Can we listen?