Barbara Sue Ryden

I received a BA ('83) from Northwestern University, where I was a student in the Integrated Science Program. My PhD ('87) is from the department of astrophysical sciences at Princeton University. I served terms as a postdoc at the CfA and CITA. I am currently a professor in the department of astronomy at The Ohio State University, where I serve as a facilitator at AstroCoffee. My main research interests are in galaxies and in the large scale structure of the universe. My textbook Introduction to Cosmology (1st edition ©2003, 2nd edition ©2017), won the Chambliss Astronomical Writing Award of the American Astronomical Society. Foundations of Astrophysics, written with Brad Peterson, was published in 2009. I am currently at work on the Ohio State Graduate Astrophysics Series, a set of ebooks based on the graduate curriculum of the Ohio State University astronomy department. For more details of my life, grab a copy of my curriculum vitae (PDF: updated 2017 July).

Books

Ohio State Graduate Astrophysics Series

Now available:

• Interstellar and Intergalactic Medium, Barbara Ryden & Richard Pogge [available on Google Play]
• Dynamics, Barbara Ryden [available on Google Play]

Upcoming volumes:

• Stellar Structure and Evolution, Marc Pinsonneault & Barbara Ryden, autumn 2017
• Electromagnetic Radiation, spring 2018
• Cosmology and Structure Formation, autumn 2018

Teaching

Courses I have taught:

• Astronomy 1101: From Planets to the Cosmos
• Astronomy 141/1141: Life in the Universe
• Astronomy 143/1143: Cosmology - History of the Universe
• Astronomy 161/1140: Introduction to Solar System Astronomy
• Astronomy 162/1144: Introduction to Stellar, Galactic, & Extragalactic Astronomy
• Astronomy H162: Honors Introduction to Stellar, Galactic, & Extragalactic Astronomy
• Astronomy 291/2291: Basic Astrophysics & Planetary Astronomy
• Astronomy 292/2292: Stellar, Galactic, & Extragalactic Astronomy & Astrophysics
• Astronomy 642: Extragalactic Astronomy
• Astronomy 682/6682: Introduction to Cosmology
• Astronomy 810/7810: Order of Magnitude Astrophysics
• Astronomy 822: Electromagnetic Radiation
• Astronomy 825: Radiative Gas Dynamics
• Astronomy 8831: Stellar Structure & Evolution
• Astronomy 870: Stellar Systems
• Astronomy 8870: Dynamics
• Astronomy 8871: Interstellar Medium & Intergalactic Medium
• Astronomy 873/8873: Cosmology & Structure Formation

Courses my department chair has prudently prevented me from teaching:

• Astronomy 1142: Black Holes
• Astronomy 3350: Methods of Astronomical Observation & Data Analysis
• Astronomy 5681: Principles of Stellar Evolution & Nucleosynthesis
• Astronomy 5830: Observed Properties of Astronomical Systems
• Astronomy 8823: Atomic & Radiative Processes in Astrophysics
• Astronomy 8824: Numerical & Statistical Methods in Astrophysics