Most of my teaching is now done through books:
Eclipsing Binary Stars: Modeling and Analysis, 1999; 2009 (J. Kallrath & E.F. Milone), (New York: Springer)
Exploring Ancient Skies, 2005 (D.H. Kelley & E.F. Milone), (New York: Springer)
Short-Period Binary Stars, 2008 (E.F. Milone, D.A. Leahy, & D. Hobill, eds.), (Dordrecht: Springer)
Solar System Astrophysics, (Vols 1 & 2), 2008 (E.F. Milone & W.J.F. Wilson) (New York: Springer) [in press]
(in preparation: Advanced Observational Methods; This I Believe)

The rest of this page will describe briefly my contributions to teaching over the past three decades. It is still under construction, following my retirement from the teaching faculty, and the removal of course descriptions, assignments, sample exams, etc. placed here when students needed to access them.

Teaching Background of E. F. Milone

I helped to organize and have taught the following undergraduate courses during my 35 years as a faculty member:

• Astronomy 211 (Fundamentals of Astronomy I)
• Astronomy 213 (Fundamentals of Astronomy II)
• Astrophysics 301, 309, 409 (formerly Geophysics 375) (Solar System Astrophysics)
• Astrophysics 401 (Galactic Astrophysics)
• Astrophysics 507 (formerly the asph. component of Physics 408) (Senior Astrophysics Laboratory)
• Astronomy 301 (Archaoastronomy)

I also have taught the following undergraduate courses:

• Astronomy 205 (The Universe)
• Astrophysics 303 (Solar Physics)
• Astrophysics 501 (Stellar Atmospheres)
• Astrophyiscs 503 (Stellar Structure and Evolution)

Characteristically, notes were provided for the senior classes, and in all junior classes, examinations were tripartite to include these sections: terms & definitions; computational problems; and short essays. I graded each exam at least three times: once as prosecuting attorney; a second time as a defensive attorney, and the third, and final, time as judge; of course, where doubt still existed, an appeal was granted! Consequently, grading exams was burdensome; only the glorious music of Bach or, perhaps, Wagner, could ease the burden. Almost all these classes had a laboratory component; Many man-years were spent at the RAO, DAO, and even KPNO (several students were invited along on research field trips to learn the art of data acquisition, along with data reduction, and analysis).

The graduate courses I organized and have taught are:

• Astrophysics 607 (Advanced Experimental Astrophysics)
• Physics 597 (Variable Stars)
• Physics 599, 800 (Research Topics in Variable Stars)

I have supervised a fair number of graduate students in the past and am still open to supervising one or more students at present, provided that they are seriously committed to completing their programs.
My graduate students get to stay up late and travel to exotic places.
For privacy concerns, I no longer list the graduate and undergraduate students I have supervised, but some of those who are/were involved with the observatory may be listed in the RAO link.

Sample thesis topics for graduate students:

• Analysis of selected binary stars in the Globular Cluster 47 Tuc
• Mass-Luminosity relations from the best new binary star data
• Infrared light curves of selected variable stars with the IRWG passbands
• Combing the Coma Berenices field for variables and extra-solar planet transits (with the BNPC)
• Secondary components of the polar class of cataclysmic variables (possibly with UVIT data)
• Tomographic light curve analysis of cool Algol systems
• A search for high-latitude variable stars (with the BNPC)
• Conversion of light curve modeling code into JAVA (GAIA-related)
• Follow-up studies of variable stars discovered in the GAIA survey (post 2011)