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SCHEDULE

Important dates to keep in mind, in addition to our anticipated learning schedule for the year, and fun hands-on activities/excursions!

(click underlined text for links to lectures and problem sets)

9/6/24: Introduction & Outline for the Year

9/13/24: Basic Math and Physics

9/20/24: Newton's Laws of Gravitation, Kepler's 1st Law

10/11/24: Kepler's 2nd & 3rd law

10/18/24: Escape Velocity, Schwarzschild Radius, Roche Limit

10/25/24: Parallax

11/8/24: Center of Mass, 2-body Problem, Lagrange Points

12/6/24: EMS, Black Body Radiation, Planck's Law: Part 1

12/13/24: EMS, Black Body Radiation, Planck's Law: Part 2 & Stefan-Boltzmann's & Wien's Law

1/1/25: USAAAO registration opens

1/17/25: Spherical Trigonometry

1/31/25: USAAAO registration closes

2/7/25: Review for the USAAAO

2/8/25: USAAAO first round exam

2/14/25: Thermodynamics

Mid~Late February, 2025: USAAAO first round results announced & cutoffs released

2/21/25: Reviewing the USAAAO exam

3/14/25: Celestial Coordinates

3/21/25: Stellar Structure

3/28/25: Neutron Star

4/12/25: NAC (USAAAO second round) exam

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Late April, 2025: IAAC qualification round

Early May, 2025: IAAC qualification round results announced

Mid May, 2025: NAC results announced & team USA decided upon

Late May, 2025: IAAC pre-final round

Early~Mid June, 2025: IAAC pre-final round results announced

Late June, 2025: IAAC final round

Early July, 2025: IAAC final round results announced

8/11-8/21, 2025: IOAA (Mumbai, India)

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