Professor John Bally
Department of Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences
University of Colorado at Boulder

Spring 2012 Teaching:
ASTR 3520 "Observations and Instrumentation II: Spectroscopy"
ASTR 3520 introduces students to astronomical spectroscopy.
Tuesday Class: Duane Physics G-131 12:30 - 1:50 PM.
Tuesday Lab: SBO 6:30 - 8:00+ PM at 6:30 PM.
Thursday Class: SBO 12:30 - 1:50 (Starting week 3)
Office hours: Tuesday 2:00 - 3:00 PM, Wednesday 1:00 3:00 PM, Thursday, 2:00 - 3:00 PM, or by appointment.

Syllabus , Homework, excercises, & notes , Lab execises , Papers and reference materials , Power Point .

Research and Outreach:
The insterstellar medium, star formation, feedback and the self-regulation of star formation. Formation of clusters and massive stars. Protostellar outflows and jets. Molecular Clouds. Astrobiology. Black-holes and cosmology. Observations from visual to radio wavelengths. Instrumentation. Major recent projects include the Bolocam Galactic Plane Survey and the Herschel Galactic Plane Survey (Hi-GAL).

Current senior graduate students: Adam Ginsburg , Cara Battersby , and Allision Youngblood

I give popular talks on astronomy and comsmology to the general public and amateur astronomy groups. Bo Reipurth and I have written a popular book, The Birth of Stars and Planets

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Skiing:
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