Date	Slides (pdf)	Notes (pdf)	Recording	Reading	Events
Jan 13	The Missing Mass Problem	-	-	Chapter 1
Jan 15	Flavors of Dark Matter	Dark matter Candidates	-	Chapter 1
Jan 20	Galaxies & Clusters of Galaxies	Virial Theorem	-	Chapter 2
Jan 22	Disk Stability	The Oort Discrepancy
Jan 27	Baryonic content of galaxies	Mass components Stellar populations		galaxy primer
Jan 29	Orbits & Disk Heating Limits	Oort Constants & Epicycles Potential-Density Pairs
Feb 3	Dark Matter Halos	Halo models | Overdensities NFW math | IAU 100		Chapter 6.3
Feb 5	Rotation Curves & Tully-Fisher	Laws of Galactic Rotation Tully-Fisher scalings		Chapter 3 Tully-Fisher	HW1 Due
Feb 10	Rotation curve shapes & the RAR	Galactic Laws elaborated		The RAR
Feb 12	Elliptical galaxy dynamics	Phase space
Feb 17		-	-
Feb 19	Rotation curve fitting	Monolithic galaxy formation Hierarchical structure formation Halo Models | Overdensities		Galaxy formation basics
Feb 24	Galaxy formation	Adiabatic Compression		Galaxy formation timescale
Feb 26	CDM "small scale" problems	Mass functions Example Feedback scheme		Chapter 6.3
Mar 3	Midterm review	Midterm Review			HW2 Due
Mar 5	Midterm	-	-	-	Midterm
Mar 10, 12	Spring Break	-	-
Mar 17	Galaxy Clusters	Timing Argument Orbit Theory		Chapter 4 clusters ruin everything
Mar 19	Gravitational Lensing	Gravitational Lensing Kamionkowski notes		Chapter 4 indefinitely flat?
Mar 24	Missing Mass Problems	Neutrino Hierarchy		Chapter 8
Mar 26	Baryon Density Ωb Mass Density Ωm	Big Bang Nucleosynthesis		Chapter 5.1 Missing baryons in theory in the IGM
Apr 2	Weakly Interacting Massive Particles	WIMP Channels		Chapter 9 what if?	HW3 Due
Apr 7	WIMP Detection Experiments			Chapters 12, 13 experimental experience 2022 update 2024 update
Apr 9	Dark Matter Canddiates	Non-WIMP Dark Matter		Chapters 10, 11
Apr 14	Modified Gravity	MOND Basics		MOND pages
Apr 16	MOND Successes	MOND Predictions		MOND paradigm
Apr 21	Other Tests of MOND	-		MOND review
Apr 23	Final Review	Final Review Anisotropy	-	-	HW4 Due
Apr 30	Final (12-3PM)	-	-	-	Final

The corresponding material from previous semesters can be found here: Spring 2024 | Fall 2021 | Spring 2020 | Spring 2018 | Spring 2016 | Fall 2013