Scientific Program

(1)  “Perspectives on Helioseismology”

William Chaplin

University of Birmingham (UK)

Lecture 1: In the Beginning... (Download the pdf version)
Lecture 2: Modern Data for Helioseismology. (Download the pdf version)
Lecture 3: Inference on Internal Structure. (Download the pdf version)
Lecture 4: Solar Activity, the Solar Cycle. (Download the pdf version)

(2) “Learning Physics from the Stars: It's All In the Coefficients”

Steven Kawaler

Iowa State University (USA)

Lecture 1: Overview / discussion of the basic equations of stellar structure. (Download the pdf version)
Lecture 2: It's all in the coefficients - input physics and weaknesses that we need to fix. (Download the pdf version)
Lecture 3: Driving and Damping - nonadiabiatic pulsation theory and practice. (Download the pdf version)
Lecture 4: Seismology to the rescue - feedback between pulsation studies and basic input physics. (Download the pdf version)

(3) “Solar-like Oscillations: An Observer's Perspective “.

Timothy Bedding

University of Sydney (Australia)

Lecture 1: Overview/Properties of solar-like oscillations. (Download the pdf version)
Lecture 2: Techniques and main results. (Download the pdf version)
Lecture 3: Special topics: mixed modes, amplitudes. (Download the pdf version)
Lecture 4: Solar-like oscillations in red giants. (Download the pdf version)

(4) “Studying stars through frequency inversions”

Sarbani Basu

Yale University (USA)

Lecture 1: Linear adiabatic wave equations. (Download the pdf version)
Lecture 2: The "inversion" equation and inversion techniques. (Download the pdf version)
Lecture 3: Helio- and asteroseismic inversions I. (Download the pdf version)
Lecture 4: Helio- and asteroseismic inversions II. (Download the pdf version)

(5) “From instrumentation to data analysis”

Thierry Appourchaux

Inst. d’Astrophysique Spatiale (France)

Lecture 1: Time series and spectral analysis. (Download the pdf version)
Lecture 2: Statistical analysis in astero- and helioseismology (I). (Download the pdf version)
Lecture 3: Statistical analysis in astero- and helioseismology (II). (Download the pdf version)
Lecture 4: Astero- and helioseismic space instrumentation. (Download the pdf version)

(6) “Seismic Probes of the Solar/Stellar Interior”

Mario J. Monteiro

Centro de Astrofisica. Univ. do Porto (Portugal)

Lecture 1: Seismic probes: basic concepts and tools. (Download the pdf version)
Lecture 2: Probing the physics of the Sun: the envelope. (Download the pdf version)
Lecture 3: Insights on stellar cores and envelopes. (Download the pdf version)
Lecture 4: Applications and expectations: space and ground data. (Download the pdf version)

(7) “An observer's views and tools”

Donald Kurtz

University Central Lancashire (UK)

Lecture 1: Peculiar stars of the upper main sequence. (Download the ppt version)
Lecture 2: The oblique pulsator model and 3D views of pulsation modes and atmosphere. (Download the ppt version)
Lecture 3: The variable star zoo: identification of variable type. (Download the ppt version)
Lecture 4: Miscellaneous, but useful topics: time; frequency and phase; spectral windows and more. (Download the ppt version)

(8) “Advanced topics in asteroseismology”

Jørgen Christensen-Dalsgaard

University of Aarhus (Denmark)

Lecture 1: Detailed investigation of a stellar core based on mixed modes. Mode amplitudes in red giants. (Download the pdf version)
Lecture 2: Introduction to the Aarhus codes: ASTEC and ADIPLS. (Download the pdf version)
Lecture 3: Practical exercises with ASTEC and ADIPLS. (Download the pdf version)
Lecture 4: Practical exercises with ASTEC and ADIPLS. (Download the pdf version)