Courses at Vanderbilt
ASTR 3900 / 8090
General Relativity & Cosmology
Fall 2020 – present
Cross-listed introductory general relativity course covering special relativity and spacetime geometry, the Einstein field equations, black holes and gravitational waves, and cosmological models of the expanding universe.
Interactive demos — browser-based visualizations built lecture by lecture across the semester.
ASTR 3970 / 8070
Astrostatistics
Spring 2021 – present
Cross-listed course on probability, statistical inference, data analysis, and machine learning. Highly interactive and centered around Jupyter notebooks; developed by Taylor.
Course materials on GitHub: Spring 2025 · Spring 2024 · Spring 2022 · Spring 2021
ASTR 8001
Order of Magnitude Astrophysics
Fall 2019 · guest lecturer, Fall 2021
Guest lecturing
- California Institute of Technology — PH237: Gravitational Waves (Spring 2016)
- Niels Bohr International Academy — Gravitational-Wave Astrophysics (Summer 2021)
Textbook
Nanohertz Gravitational Wave Astronomy (CRC Press, 2021) is a graduate-level introduction to pulsar timing arrays, used in courses worldwide.
Learning resources
- Gravitational waves explained — LIGO
- Pulsar timing arrays — NANOGrav
- Einstein Online — Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics