Yao-Yuan Mao portrait
  • Assistant Professor, Physics And Astronomy

Current Courses

Fall 2024

  • ASTR 4080-001
    Intro to Cosmology
  • PHYS 4080-001
    Intro to Cosmology
  • PHYS 4800-006
    Undergraduate Research
  • PHYS 6950-036
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Summer 2024

Spring 2024

Courses I Teach

  • ASTR/PHYS 4080 - Introduction to Cosmology   (https://student.apps.utah.edu/uofu/stu/ClassSchedu...)
    An introductory course which explores modern cosmological concepts at undergraduate level.
  • PHYS/ASTR 7730 - Statistical and Computational Methods   (https://yymao.github.io/phys7730/)
    A graduate-level course that discusses a few widely applicable statistical and computational methods of analyzing and modeling phenomena in astrophysics, biophysics, and physics in general. Topics include stochastic process simulations, Monte Carlo methods, Bayesian analysis, and basic machine learning algorithms.