{"id":411,"date":"2020-06-10T10:36:39","date_gmt":"2020-06-10T10:36:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/drmeganargo.net\/?page_id=411"},"modified":"2021-09-04T16:09:06","modified_gmt":"2021-09-04T16:09:06","slug":"teaching-202021","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/drmeganargo.net\/index.php\/teaching\/teaching-202021\/","title":{"rendered":"Teaching 2020\/21"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>AA1051: Introductory Astronomy<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>(distance learning)<\/strong> &#8211; a year-long broad overview of modern astrophysics for beginners to the subject. \u00a0Covers the essential physics background, measurements and coordinate systems used in astronomy, telescopes and observing conditions, stellar structure, the HR diagram and stellar evolution, the distance ladder, galaxies, and simple cosmology. \u00a0Updated the course to run via Teams with more interactivity. \u00a0Module leader. \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/studyastronomy.com\">More information<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>AP2860: Physics Laboratory<\/strong> &#8211; running a series of astronomy experiments in the second year laboratory, on topics such as binary stars, analysing CCDs, six-week open-ended group research projects, and including evening observing sessions at UCLan&#8217;s Observatory at Alston. \u00a0 Running at remotely this academic year using Azure Labs and Teams. \u00a0Module leader for the astrophysics half of the module.<\/p>\n<p><strong>AA3050: DL astronomy dissertation<\/strong> &#8211; supervising distance learning students working their final dissertations at the end of their path through the UCLan distance learning degree in astronomy. \u00a0 \u00a0My student this year is working on modelling the radio light curve of a recent core collapse supernova. \u00a0Module leader.<\/p>\n<p><strong>AP3950: Third year physics\/astronomy project<\/strong> \u2013 supervising students working on their BSc major research project. \u00a0My student this year worked on a literature review on the topic of intermediate mass black holes.<\/p>\n<p><!--<strong>AP3950: Third year physics\/astronomy project<\/strong> - supervising students working on their BSc major research project.--><\/p>\n<p><!--<strong>AP4553: MPhys project<\/strong> - supervising a student working on observations of a binary supermassive black hole candidate.--><\/p>\n<p><strong>Research students<\/strong> &#8211; I am co-supervising a PhD student working on the Pebbles survey, 2017-2020, and DoS for a student working on deep field radio astronomy (2020-2023). \u00a0I also supervise an MSc student working on a small radio telescope for Alston Observatory.<\/p>\n<p>In 2021 I am also studying for a PG Cert in Online and Distance Education through the Open University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AA1051: Introductory Astronomy\u00a0(distance learning) &#8211; a year-long broad overview of modern astrophysics for beginners to the subject. \u00a0Covers the essential physics background, measurements and coordinate systems used in astronomy, telescopes and observing conditions, stellar structure, the HR diagram and stellar evolution, the distance ladder, galaxies, and simple cosmology. \u00a0Updated the course to run via Teams [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":173,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-411","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","post-preview"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P7Ni4X-6D","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drmeganargo.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/drmeganargo.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/drmeganargo.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drmeganargo.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drmeganargo.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=411"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/drmeganargo.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":580,"href":"https:\/\/drmeganargo.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/411\/revisions\/580"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drmeganargo.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drmeganargo.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}