Joachim Vogt's Teaching

Overview

• Geophysics and planetary physics
• Physics of the Earth's space environment
• Other (mathematics, general physics, computer labs)

Recipient of Teaching Awards at Jacobs University Bremen (formerly IUB) in 2002 and 2006.

Geophysics and planetary physics

• Earth and Planetary Physics: lecture course with tutorials, 3 hours per week (spring semesters 2011 and 2009).
  Topics: atmospheres, planetary interiors, seismology, geophysical potential theory, gravity field, planetary magnetism.
• General Earth and Space Sciences: introductory course unit, 3 weeks, 3 hours per week (fall semesters 2010 and 2001-2008).
  Topics: Earth as a planet, earthquakes and interior, atmospheric structure and circulation pattern, ionosphere, magnetosphere.
• Potentialtheorie in der Geophysik (TU Braunschweig, in German): lecture course with tutorials, 4 hours per week (summer semester 2001).
  
• Geophysik I (TU Braunschweig, in German): lecture course with tutorials, 4 hours per week (winter semester 2000/2001).

Physics of the Earth's space environment

• Space Plasma Physics: lecture course with tutorials, 3 hours per week (spring 2010, fall 2007, spring 2006, spring 2005, fall 2003).
  Topics: regions in geospace, fundamental space plasma phenomena (convection, currents, magnetospheric dynamics, aurora, waves, etc.), observations and instruments, theoretical models (single-particle motion, fluid approach, and plasma kinetic theory).
• General Astrophysics and Space Research: lecture course unit on space physics, 5 weeks, 3 hours per week (spring semesters 2002-2010).
  Topics: Sun and heliosphere, space weather, energetic particles in geospace, orbits and missions.
• Space Physics and Global Geophysics: lecture course with tutorials, 3 hours per week (fall 2002 and 2004-2007, spring 2004).
• Moderne Aspekte der Magnetosphärenphysik I/II (TU Braunschweig, in German): two lecture courses in 1999/2000, 2 hours per week.

Other (mathematics, general physics, computer labs)

• ESSential Mathematical and Physical Concepts: lecture course with tutorials, 7 weeks, 3 hours per week (fall 2010, spring 2010, fall 2008).
  Topics: selected concepts of vector analysis, differential equations, point mechanics, and geophysical fluid dynamics.
• ESSential Time Series Analysis: computer lab course, 7 weeks, 2 afternoon lab sessions per week (fall 2010, spring 2010, spring 2009).
  Topics: file preparation, preprocessing, statistics, Fourier transformation, spectral analysis, filtering, regression, least squares.
• ESSential Computational Modeling II: computer lab course, 7 weeks, 2 afternoon lab sessions per week (spring 2011, spring 2010, fall 2008).
  Topics: physical fields and numerical derivatives, finite differencing of transport equations, fundamental concepts of numerical analysis.
• General Mathematics II: lecture course unit with tutorials, 9 weeks, 3 hours per week (spring 2002).
  Topics: multivariable calculus, integration, ordinary differential equations.
• Electromagnetism I: lecture course with tutorials, 3 hours per week (fall 2001).
  Topics: introduction to vector analysis, electrostatics, magnetostatics, fundamental electrodynamic phenomena, Maxwell's equations.