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Contact details:
- Instructor: Stephen Kane
- Office: 312 Bryant Space Science Center
- Office hours: Mondays, 3:00pm-5:00pm
- Phone: 392-2052 x250
- Email: skane@astro.ufl.edu (write AST2037 in subject)
Download the class syllabus here.
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Class times:
- Tuesday, 9:35am-10:25am CSE E119
- Thursday, 9:35am-10:25am CSE E119
- Thursday, 10:40am-11:30am CSE E119
Text:
- The Search for Life in the Universe, Donald Goldsmith & Tobias Owen, 3rd
edition
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Lectures: (numbers in parentheses are relevant chapters from the textbook)
- Lecture 1 - Introduction (13)
- Lecture 2 - Martians? Life on Mars? (13)
- Lecture 3 - Martians? Life on Mars? (13)
- Lecture 4 - What is life? (7)
- Lecture 5 - What is life? (7)
- Lecture 6 - Introduction, Birth of Stars (3)
- Lecture 7 - Birth of Stars (3)
- Lecture 8 - Birth of Planets (3)
- Lecture 9 - Birth of Planets, Stellar Evolution (3)
- Lecture 10 - Stellar Evolution (4-5)
- Lecture 11 - Stellar Evolution (4-5)
- Lecture 12 - Stellar Evolution (4-5)
- Lecture 13 - Life in the Solar System (11)
- Lecture 14 - Life in the Solar System (11)
- Lecture 15 - Life in the Solar System (11-12)
- Lecture 16 - Life in the Solar System (12)
- Lecture 17 - Life on Mars (13-14)
- Lecture 18 - Life on Mars (13-14)
- Lecture 19 - Life on Mars (13-14)
- Lecture 20 - Life on Mars (13-14)
- Lecture 21 - Life on Europa (15)
- Lecture 22 - Life on Europa (15)
- Lecture 23 - Life on other planets and moons (15)
- Lecture 24 - Life on Earth: Biochemistry of living organisms (7-8)
- Lecture 25 - Cells: the basic life units (7-8)
- Lecture 26 - Chemistry of life (7-8)
- Lecture 27 - The geological history of the Earth (7-8)
- Lecture 28 - The geological history of the Earth (7-8)
- Lecture 29 - Early life formation on Earth (9)
- Lecture 30 - Early life formation and evolution on Earth (9-10,16)
- Lecture 31 - Search for extrasolar planets (17)
- Lecture 32 - Search for extrasolar planets (17)
- Lecture 33 - Search for extrasolar planets (17)
- Lecture 34 - Search for extrasolar planets (17-18)
- Lecture 35 - Future detection of extrasolar planets (19)
- Lecture 36 - Future detection of extrasolar planets (20)
- Lecture 37 - Future detection of extrasolar planets (21)
- Lecture 38 - Biosignatures and the search for life (21)
- Lecture 39 - Detection of Intelligent Life in the Universe (21)
- Lecture 40 - Detection of Intelligent Life in the Universe (22)
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Grades:
You can check your grades by clicking here.
Homework:
Quizzes:
There will be 7 quizzes (each lasting around 20 minutes) but only the
top 5 grades will be used for assessment.
- Quiz #1 - 1/23/07
- Quiz #2 - 2/6/07
- Quiz #3 - 2/20/07
- Quiz #4 - 3/6/07
- Quiz #5 - 3/27/07
- Quiz #6 - 4/10/07
- Quiz #7 - 4/24/07
Term paper:
Individual effort or groups of 2-4 students each. Topic title/abstract with
names of team members is due February 22nd, 2007. The term paper is to be 5-10
pages if individual effort and 15-20 pages if group effort. The paper is due
April 24th, 2007.
Here are some sample topics based on previous years:
- Terraforming: environment emulation and engineering
- Enceladus, a Saturn moon
- Evidence for Life on Mars
- Aurora Borealis
- Life on Jupiter and its moons
- Earth's Evolution and the Implications of Life
- Exotic Forms of Non-terrestrial Life
- Interstellar Space Travel
Assessment:
- Homework - 40%
- Quizzes - 30%
- Term paper - 30%
You can now check your grades here using your
"secret number".
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Library books:
The following recommended books are available in the Science Library.
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1 |
QB54. J23, 1989 |
Francis Jackson |
Life in the universe |
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2 |
QH325.L53, 2003 |
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Life in the universe |
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3 |
QB54.L483, 1981 |
J.
Billingham (ed) |
Life in the Universe |
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4 |
QH341.S339, 2004 |
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Life in the
universe: expectations and constraints |
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5 |
QB981.H32, 2000 |
Dirk Schulze-Makuch |
Cosmology: the
science of the universe |
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6 |
QB45.P287, 1998 |
Jay
Pasachoff |
Astronomy from the
earth to the universe |
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7 |
QH325.U46, 2003 |
P.
Ulmschneider |
Intelligent life in
the universe: from common origins to the future of humanity |
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8 |
QH325.L87, 2003 |
Paul
Lurquin |
The origins of life
and the universe |
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9 |
Q325.W34,2002 |
Mark Ward |
Beyond Chaos: the
Underlying theory behind life, the universe and everything |
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10 |
QH325.A278, 2002 |
Fred Adams |
Origins of
existence: how life emerged in the universe |
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11 |
QB54.G58,2001 |
Donald Goldsmith |
The Search for Life
in the Universe, 3hr ed. |
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12 |
QH327.C54,2001 |
Julian
Chela
Flores |
The new science of
astrobiology: from genesis of the living cell to evolution of
intelligent behavior in the universe |
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