Teaching

Spring 2023: Online Undergraduate Research Scholarships (OURS) Research Experience on “Laboratory Astrophysics”
Class: TBD | Virtual

Fall 2022: CHM/GLG/481/598 “Geochemistry”
Class: MW| 9a.m.-10:15a.m. | PSH 460
Origin and distribution of the chemical elements. Geochemical cycles operating in the Earth’s atmosphere, hydrosphere, and lithosphere.

Fall 2022: Online Undergraduate Research Scholarships (OURS) Research Experience on “Laboratory Astrophysics”
Class: TuTh | 1-2:30pm | Virtual

Spring 2022: “LabRats in the Sciences”
Class: F | 2:00-3:45pm | PVW 163
Research and instrumentation in the School of Earth and Space Exploration.

Fall 2021: AST111 “Introduction of Solar Systems Astronomy”
Class: TTh | 1:30-2:45pm | ISTB4 185
History, properties of light, instruments, study of solar system and nearby stars.

Spring 2021: “Planetary Science Seminar”
Class: M | 1:25-2:25pm | Remote over zoom
Read planetary science papers and make sketches/illustrations about them.

Fall 2020: AST111 “Introduction of Solar Systems Astronomy”
Class: TTh | 1:30-2:45pm | Remote over zoom
History, properties of light, instruments, study of solar system and nearby stars.

Spring 2020: CHM/GLG/481/598 “Geochemistry”
Class: MW| 10:45a.m.-noon | PSH 450+ Remote over zoom
Origin and distribution of the chemical elements. Geochemical cycles operating in the Earth’s atmosphere, hydrosphere, and lithosphere.

Fall 2019: AST111 “Introduction of Solar Systems Astronomy”
Class: TTh | 1:30-2:45pm | ISTB4 185
History, properties of light, instruments, study of solar system and nearby stars.

Spring 2019: SES494/SES598 “Water in the Solar System”
Class: MW | 9:00-10:15 a.m. | PSF 226
Water and hydrogen isotope fractionation in planets and small planetary bodies in our Solar System

Fall 2018: AST111 “Introduction of Solar Systems Astronomy”
Class: MWF | 9:40-10:30 a.m. | ISTB4 185
History, properties of light, instruments, study of solar system and nearby stars.

Spring 2018: SES494/SES598 “Stardust in Meteorites”
Class: F | 10:45-11:45 a.m. | PSH 450
Our solar system did not form from a well-mixed, homogenized gaseous reservoir but contains variable amounts of supernova ejecta and circumstellar materials, which can be identified in meteorites. This hybrid lecture-seminar course will involve a discussion of stellar evolution and nucleosynthesis, with an emphasis on understanding the isotopic compositions of nucleosynthetic remnants. We will explore the nature of nucleosynthetic reactions that occurs in stars, and how this affects the compositions of the regions where grains condense. This course will focus on dust grains that condense in the atmospheres of Red Giant and Asymptotic Giant Branch stars as well as Supernova and Nova explosions. The isotopes of interest for each week will be based on an assigned paper.

Fall 2017: SES494/SES598 “Water in the Solar System”
Class: MWF | 10:45-11:35 a.m. | PSH 450
This course will follow NASA’s prior Mars exploration strategy ‘Follow the Water’, and examine the state of knowledge about water and hydrogen isotope fractionation in planets and small planetary bodies in our Solar System. The course seeks to use the distribution of water and hydrogen isotopes as a tracer that provides clues to conditions, events, and physical processes during and subsequent to the formation of planets. The course will focus on the laboratory measurements in samples from Earth, Mars, moon, comets and asteroids including Vesta. Comparisons to remote-sensing observations of water-bearing minerals in these planetary bodies as well as others, such as Ceres, Europa, and Enceladus will also be undertaken.

Teaching Faculty, Department of Physics
Fergusson College, University of Pune Pune, India
Aug 2003-May 2004
Courses: Classical Mechanics & Quantum Mechanics