Date	Topic	Events	Recording	Notes
Aug 23	Introduction & Overview		via Zoom	Types of dark matter
Aug 25	Hypothesis Testing & Virial Theorem		via Zoom	Tensor Virial Theorem
Aug 30	Oort Discrepancy & Disk Stability		via Zoom	Vertical restoring force Stability criteria
Sep 1	Baryonic Mass Estimators		via Zoom	Stellar and gasous components of galaxies
Sep 6	No Class	Labor Day
Sep 8	Stellar Pops & Galactic Kinematics		via Zoom	Stellar populations Galactic kinematics Timescales
Sep 13	Dark Matter Halos		via Zoom	Halo Models
Sep 15	Flat rotation curves Tully-Fisher Relations	Homework 1 Due	via Zoom	Laws of Galactic Rotation
Sep 20	Central Density Relation Radial Acceleration Relation		via Zoom	Laws of Galactic Rotation the short form
Sep 22	Applications; Elliptical galaxies		via Zoom	Anisotropy
Sep 27	Galaxy Formation		via Zoom	Cosmological Framework Monolithic Galaxy Formation Hierarchical Galaxy Formation
Sep 29	Steps in Galaxy Formation		via Zoom	Galaxy Formation steps
Oct 4	Condensation & Abundance Matching		via Zoom	Feedback scheme
Oct 6	Small Scale Problems		via Zoom	Mass Functions
Oct 11	Mergers & Disk Stability	Homework 2 Due	via Zoom
Oct 13	Hot Gas in Galaxy Clusters		via Zoom
Oct 18	No Class	Fall Break
Oct 20	Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect Gravitational Lensing		via Zoom	Gravitational Lensing
Oct 25	Midterm Review			Midterm Notes
Oct 27	Midterm	Midterm		Out of 50 possible High: 46 | Low: 30 Median: 38
Nov 1	Microlensing Searches		via Zoom	Microlensing
Nov 3	Three distinct missing mass problems		via Zoom	Mass Functions
Nov 8	Measures of the Cosmic Mass Density	Homework 3 Due	Zoom fail	Peculiar velocities
Nov 10	CDM in the CMB		via Zoom	Growth of density perturbations
Nov 15	WIMP detection		via Zoom	Experimental searches
Nov 17	MOND Basics		via Zoom	MOND math MOND tests MOND review
Nov 22	MOND Beyond Galaxies		via Zoom	External Field Effect" EFE discussion Note on modified inertia
Nov 24	No class meeting - attend U.Santiago Seminar	Thanksgiving Eve	U.Santiago Seminar
Nov 29	Final Review		via Zoom	Review notes
Dec 1	ASTR 433 presentations	Homework 4 Due
Dec 9	Thursday, 12-3pm	Final		Out of 50 possible High: 48 | Low: 15 Median: 44