dynamics of stellar clusters
Lecturer: S. Zaggia

The course is aiming at giving the basic tools to understand the dynamical structure of simple stellar structures like open and globular clusters up to dwarf galaxies. The outline of the 10 hours course is the folowing:

Stellar clusters, characteristics and scaling laws. Collisionless Bolzmann Equation, Stellar Encounters. Virial Theorem and applications. The dynamics of star clusters. Tidal forces and other effects. The Core Collapse. Stellar clusters and dark matter.