The fine print: This is my personal homepage. Any ideas and opinions expressed here do not necessarily reflect those of the College of Science or Weber State University.

Note: Please direct any questions or comments about:

An Introduction to Modern Astrophysics (a.k.a. BOB, the "Big Orange Book"),
An Introduction to Modern Stellar Astrophysics, or
An Introduction to Galactic Astrophysics and Cosmology

should be directed to modastro@weber.edu.

My unofficial Olympics web site (behind the scenes pictures from the Snowbasin alpine events for the 2002 Winter Olympics).  I had the opportunity to work as a course slipper on the Men's downhill, Super-G, and combined slalom courses.

Publications

Bradley W. Carroll and Dale A. Ostlie, An Introduction to Modern Astrophysics, Second Edition, Pearson Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, San Francisco, 2007, ISBN 0-8053-0402-9, 1361 pages (http://www.aw-bc.com/astrophysics).

Dale A. Ostlie and Bradley W. Carroll, An Introduction to Modern Stellar Astrophysics, Second Edition, Pearson Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, San Francisco, 2007, ISBN 0-8053-0348-0, 776 pages (http://www.aw-bc.com/astrophysics).

Bradley W. Carroll and Dale A. Ostlie, An Introduction to Modern Galactic Astrophysics and Cosmology, Second Edition, Pearson Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, San Francisco, 2007, ISBN 0-8053-0347-2, 827 pages (http://www.aw-bc.com/astrophysics).

Bradley W. Carroll and Dale A. Ostlie, Instructor Solutions Manual: An Introduction to Modern Astrophysics, Second Edition, Pearson Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, San Francisco, 2007, ISBN 0-8053-4647-3, 235 pages (http://www.aw-bc.com).

Bradley W. Carroll and Dale A. Ostlie, Instructor=s Solutions Manual: An Introduction to Modern Astrophysics, Addison Wesley Longman, 1997, ISBN 0-201-87443-1, 274 pp.

Bradley W. Carroll and Dale A. Ostlie, An Introduction to Modern Astrophysics, Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, 1996, ISBN 0-201-54730-9, 1424 pp.

Dale A. Ostlie and Bradley W. Carroll, An Introduction to Modern Stellar Astrophysics, Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, 1996, ISBN 0-201-59880-8, 832 pp.

Ostlie, Dale A. and Cox, Arthur N., "Nonlinear Models of Miras, Including Time- Dependent Convection", New Perspectives on Stellar Pulsation and Pulsating Variable Stars: IAU Colloquium #139, Nemec, James Michael and Matthews, Jaymie M. (eds.), Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1993.

Cox, Arthur N. and Ostlie, Dale A., "A Linear and Nonlinear Study of Mira", Nonlinear Phenomena in Stellar Variability: IAU Colloquium #134, Takeuti, Mine and Buchler, J. Robert (eds.), Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, 1993.

Cox, Arthur N. and Ostlie, Dale A., "A Linear and Nonlinear Study of Mira", Astrophysics and Space Science, 210, 1993.

Guzik, Joyce, Cox, Arthur N., and Ostlie, Dale A., "Pulsation Studies of a 1.8 Solar Mass delta Scuti Model", Angular Momentum and Mass Loss for Hot Stars, Willson, L. A. and Stalio, R. (eds.), Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, 123, 1990.

Dale A. Ostlie, "Time Dependent Convection in Stellar Pulsation", The Numerical Modelling of Nonlinear Stellar Pulsations: Problems and Prospects, Buchler, J. Robert (ed.), Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, 89, 1990.

Dale A. Ostlie, "Nonlinear RR Lyrae Models and Double Mode Pulsation", Proceedings of the IAU Colloquium 111, The Use of Pulsating Stars in Fundamental Problems of Astronomy, Schmidt, Edward G. (ed.), Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 281, 1989.

J.H. Cahn, A.N. Cox, and D.A. Ostlie, "Linear Nonadiabatic Pulsations of Homogeneous ZAMS Stars", Stellar Pulsation: A Memorial to John P. Cox, Cox, A.N., Sparks, W.M., and Starrfield S.G. (eds.), Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 51, 1987

Dale A. Ostlie and Arthur N. Cox, "Nonlinear RR Lyrae Models With Time Dependent Convection", Stellar Pulsation: A Memorial to John P. Cox, Cox, A.N., Sparks, W.M., and Starrfield S.G. (eds.), Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 243 1987

Dale A. Ostlie and Arthur N. Cox, "A Linear Survey of the Mira Variable Star Instability Region of the Hertzsprung-Russell Diagram" Ap. J., 311, 864, 1986.

Dale A. Ostlie, A.N. Cox, and J.H. Cahn, "Linear and Nonlinear Models of Mira Variables", Pulsations in Classical and Cataclysmic Variable Stars, John P. Cox and Carl J. Hansen (eds.), Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics, 297, 1982.

Dale A. Ostlie, Linear and Nonlinear Models of Mira Variable Stars, Ph.D. Thesis, Iowa State University, 1982.

A few of the Courses I teach (or have taught)

MATH ND0950    Pre-Algebra

MATH ND0960    First Course in Algebra

MATH 1010          Intermediate Algebra

MATH QL1030    Contemporary Mathematics

PHSX PS1030       Introduction to Astronomy

PHSX PS2210       Physics for Scientists and Engineers I

PHSX 2220           Physics for Scientists and Engineers II

PHSX 2300           Scientific Computing in C++ and Fortran

PHSX 3160           Astrophysics

PHSX 3300           Computational Physics

Some Current Projects

Preparation of the third edition of An Introduction to Modern Astrophysics (and its smaller offspring).

Development of a next-generation stellar pulsation code to investigate linear and nonlinear oscillations.

Some of My Favorite Links  

Introduction to Modern Astrophysics homepage

My unofficial 2002 Salt Lake XIX Winter Olympics web site: Behind the scenes images from the Snowbasin Alpine events

Utah Adventure Travel

Ski Utah

The Nature Conservancy

The National Park Service

The National Forest Service

HubbleSite

Space Telescope Science Institute

Astronomy Picture of the Day

The American Astronomical Society

St. Olaf College (my undergraduate alma mater)

Iowa State University (my graduate alma mater)

The WSU College of Science Homepage

The WSU Homepage

Last modified on May 30, 2008.

dostlie@weber.edu