Resources for students

I have a GitHub repo that I occasionally update with resources for my students (e.g snippets of useful code). You can access them here

Lecture notes and slides

Perth Mature Adults Learning Association 2022: How we ‘know’: making discoveries in modern physics

Five invited 1 hr lectures

Lecture notes | Slides: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5

Course summary: The last decade has been a time of unprecedented discovery in modern physics: gravitational waves, the Higgs boson, thousands of exoplanets and more. Every discovery in modern physics is written in the language of statistics and probability. Understanding the statistical methods used in modern science is also the key to a deeper understanding of today’s issues, including key modern challenges in epidemiology and climate change. In this course I provide a minimally-mathematical overview of techniques used to make unprecendented discoveries and manage our modern world’s greatest challenges.

SCIE1121 lectures 2021: Telescopes, light, stars and stellar evolution

Lecture notes: Telescopes | Light from the Universe | Stars | The lifecycle of stars

Slides (as PDF):

External Links

A variety of external links (articles and other miscellany)

Space Australia blog posts on academic jobs: Finding jobs and applying for jobs