Summer/Winter School Materials

An introduction to thermonuclear flashes on neutron stars and white dwarfs using MESA, in collaboration with Bill Wolf, at the Lorentz Center Workshop on Type I X-ray Bursts, June 2019. My slides for the Type I X-ray burst part. (This tutorial updates the lectures on X-ray bursts I gave at the 2015 MESA Summer School.)

Stellar evolution (with MESA)
A 3 hour introduction to basic ideas in stellar evolution, using MESA to explore the main sequence and evolution to white dwarfs. From the CRAQ Summer School 2019 held in Montreal, June 2019. You will need the MESA inlist_pgstar file.

An introduction to simulating thermonuclear burning on white dwarfs with MESA
From the Simulating Stars summer school held at UCAS, Beijing, June 2018.
All materials (.tgz file)

An Introduction to Neutron Stars
Two lectures on neutron stars at the CRAQ summer school held in Montreal in August 2016.

Introduction to Type I X-ray bursts
Lectures at the INT TALENT school on Nuclear Physics of Neutron Stars and Supernovae, July 2015

Lectures on Modelling Accreting Neutron Stars, from the Look and Listen Winter School held in Playa del Carmen, January 2014