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Video lectures are available via the links below. If you encounter technical problems, please contact one of the organizers.

Dynamics of the stellar and gas disc

• Stellar dynamics: introduction    Jeans's theorem    Computing actions    Models from distribution functions
• Secular evolution    Spirals: introduction    Spirals: WKB theory    Spirals: processes
• Dynamics of the bar and bulge    Chemodynamics of the bulge
• Galactic gas dynamics
• Swing amplification

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The halo

• The Milky-Way halo
• Tracers of the halo
• Early indicators of the halo
• The birth of the halo
• The cosmological context
• The phase-mixing time
• The radial profile of the halo
• The shape of the halo
• Metallicities
• Abundances
• Age and substructure of the halo
• Probing the gravitational potential (part 1)    (part 2)    (part 3)    (part 4)
• The stellar mass of the Milky Way
• The velocity distribution
• The dark-matter halo
• Cosmological predictions for dark matter (part 1)    (part 2)    (part 3)
• Cosmological predictions for the fossil record
• Implications for the dark-matter halo
• Implications for the fossil record
• Beyond equilibrium models

The interstellar medium

• Introduction to the ISM   
• Astrometry   
• Photometry and spectroscopy
• 3D maps sightline by sightline (part 1)     (part 2)
• Bayesian 3D tomography: introduction     Bayesian 3D tomography: results

Fine structure of the stellar disc

• Introduction   
• Local velocity substructure   
• Local action substructure
• Generalised Oort constants   
• Dynamical heating and the vertex deviation
• Response to a perturbation (part 1)   Response to a perturbation (part 2)   Response to a perturbation (part 3)
• Radial migration   
• Resonance and phase mixing (part 1)    Resonance and phase mixing (part 2)
• Bending, breathing and warping

• Spectroscopy
• Asteroseismology
• Stellar ages
• Chemical evolution (part 1)     Chemical evolution (part 2)
• The classical thick disc
• Subdividing the disc chemically and chronologically

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