Stellar Formation and Evolution --- Spring 2000

Star Formation

  - The Interstellar Medium
          Interaction: Matter (gas and dust) and Energy
  - Gravitational Collapse:
          Molecular Clouds; Protostars; Pre-Main Sequence Evolution
  - Binary Stars; Star Clusters
  - Observational Tests

Stellar Evolution

  - On the Main Sequence --- Intial Mass Function; Stellar Population
          Stellar Sturcture: Interior and Atmosphere

  - Post-Main Sequence Evolution

      * Low-Mass Stars
      * Massive Stars

  - End Stages

  - Pulsating Stars and Close Binaries

  - Observational Tests


References: All the references you have found useful for the course,
Stellar Atmosphere and Sturcture, will be also of use in this course.
But these may be particularly noteworthy:

Stellar Astrophyscis, vol 3, by E. Bohm-Vitense (Cambridge, 1992)
Stellar Structure and Evolution by Huang, R.Y. (Guoshin, 1990)
Physics of Stellar Evolution and Cosmology by H.S. Goldberg and M.D. Scadron (Gordon and Breach, 1981)