Physics "Agrégation"
My main teaching activity since being recruited as a "maître de conférences" by the ENS in 2008, is to supervise students preparing for the "agrégation" in physics. I oversee practical courses where students perform classical experiments in the various fields of physics. These sessions are essential if they wish to be successful in the "montage".
For more information on the "agrégation"
You may also want to visit the website of the "Préparation à l'agrégation"
Radiative transfer course (AAIS Master 2nd year)
From 2013 to 2019 I was in charge of the course "Radiative Transfer", which is a fundamental part of the Astrophysics curriculum for students in their second year of
Master "Astronomie, Astrophysique et Ingénierie Spatiale". The 15-hour course covered, over 5 sessions, the following topics :
• Information contained in astrophysical radiation
• Photometric quantities and the equation of radiative transfer
• Thermal equilibrium laws
• Deviations from thermal equilibrium
• Spectral lines
• Numerical methods
Lecture notes (in French)
Interstellar medium and star formation course (AAIS Master 2nd year)
From 2019, I have been in charge of the course "Interstellar medium and star formation", which is a thematic course for students in their second year of
Master "Astronomie, Astrophysique et Ingénierie Spatiale".
Astrophysics TD at the ENS first year
Since september 2008 I have been in charge of “Travaux Dirigés” for the course “Introduction à l’astrophysique” which is an option of L3 (first year of the ENS curriculum) taught by Nicholas Kaiser (and previously by Patrick Hennebelle and Steven Balbus ). The course covers :
• Overview of astrophysics
• Radiation mechanisms and radiative transfer
• Stellar structure and evolution
• Milky Way and external galaxies
• Cosmology
• TD #1 [03.03.2020] : Momenta of electromagnetic waves, angular resolution of a telescope
Problem set | Solution
• TD #2 [10.03.2020] : Photometric quantities
Problem set | Solution
• TD #3 [17.03.2020] : Relativistic specific intensity
Problem set
• TD #4 [24.03.2020] : Dipolar component of the CMB, colour of galactic discs
Problem set
• TD #5 [31.03.2020] : Lifetime of a star, mass-luminosity relation
Problem set
• TD #6 [28.04.2020] : Einstein coefficients and radiative transfer, HI line
Problem set
• TD #7 [05.05.2020] : Strömgren spheres
Problem set
• TD #8 [12.05.2020] : White dwarfs, Chandrasekhar mass
Problem set
• TD #9 [19.05.2020] : Neutron stars, pulsars
Problem set
• TD #10 [26.05.2020] : Friedmann equations, Universe models
Problem set
Order of magnitude TD at the ENS first year
Since september 2018 I have been in charge of “Travaux Dirigés” for the course “Ordres de grandeur” which is an option of L3 (first year of the ENS curriculum) taught by Frédérci Chevy.
Some Fermi problems
