Lecture SS 2014

Advanced Astromineralogy

+ Exercises

H.-P. Gail, A. Tamanai

Location and Time:

• Lecture: Kirchhoff-Institut, INF 227, seminar room 2.403, Fr 11-13 hct
  Begin: April 25
• Exercises: Kirchhoff-Institut, INF 227, seminar room 2.403, Mi 16-18 hct
  Begin: April 30

Contents (preliminary)

• Lecture:
  A tentative Schedule
• Exercises:
  A tentative Schedule
  Some basic knowledge of a programming language is required, because it is planned do some numerical calculations. It would be advantageous if participants have their own laptop. Please inform us if this is not the case, but you wish to participate in the exercises, in order that we have an overview how many computers have to be made available.
  
  e-mail:   gail(et)uni-heidelberg.de,   akemi(et)kip.uni-heidelberg.de

Literature

• Astromineralogy. Ed. T. Henning, 2nd ed., Springer Berlin Heidelberg: 2010
• Absorption and Scattering of Light by Small Particles. C. F. Bohren, D. R. Huffman. Wiley, New York: 1983
• Optical properties of cosmic dust analogs: A review. Th. Henning, H. Mutschke. arXiv:1004.5234v1

Links

• Spectroscopy of Rocks and Minerals, and Principles of Spectroscopy
• Heidelberg - Jena - St.Petersburg - Database of Optical Constants
• Mineral Spectroscopy Server California Institute of Technology