Dr. Christopher Sirola

Christopher Sirola,  Assistant Professor Ph.D., 1995, University of Pittsburgh, Astronomy Bobby Chain Technology Office Location: 117 B Phone: 601-266-4935

Research Interests

Physics and Physical Science Education; Licensure of physics teachers in Mississippi; Revision and/or Creation of Science Courses; Creation of Course Resources (lab manuals etc.); Optical Variability of Quasi-Stellar Objects; Transits of extrasolar planets about their parent stars

Recent Publications

Sirola, Laboratory Exercises in Stellar Astronomy, Pearson Custom Publishing, 2007.

Sirola, Laboratory Exercises in Solar System Astronomy, Pearson Custom Publishing, 2006.

Korb, Sirola, & Climack, Promoting Physical Science Courses to Education Majors, The Journal of College Science Teaching

Bustamante & Sirola, Transit Search: The Hunt for Extrasolar Planets, presented at the Autumn 2004 meeting of the Wisconsin Space Grant Consortium

Sirola, Technical Physics - Lab Manual for PHY 182, Tri-County Technical College, 2002.

Sirola, Innovations in Teaching Astronomy I, Bulletins of the American Astronomical Society, 33, 2001.

Sirola et al., Results of the Las Campanas QSO Brightness Monitoring Program, Astrophysical Journal, 495, 659, 1998.