Barbara Sue Ryden

Cosmos Mariner: Destination Unknown

Val d'Orcia - 2017 June
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).
Florence - 2017 June

Books

Introduction to Cosmology
International Edition
Japanese translation
Second Edition
Foundations of Astrophysics
International Edition

Ohio State Graduate Astrophysics Series

Interstellar and Intergalactic Medium
Dynamics
Stellar Structure and Evolution

Now available:

Upcoming volumes:


Teaching

Courses I have taught:

Courses my department chair has prudently prevented me from teaching: