| Week | Lecture focus | Activity |
|---|---|---|
| Week 1 | Lecture 01: Radiation from Extreme Plasmas | build the physical model |
| Week 1 | Lecture 02: Accretion Disks and X-ray Binaries | Lab and PS 01 |
| Week 2 | Lecture 03: White Dwarfs and Novae | build the physical model |
| Week 2 | Lecture 04: Core-Collapse Supernovae and Remnants | Lab and PS 02 |
| Week 3 | Lecture 05: Pulsars and Magnetospheric Power | build the physical model |
| Week 3 | Lecture 06: Neutron-Star Structure and Equation of State | Lab and PS 03 |
| Week 4 | Lecture 07: Black-Hole Dynamics and Relativistic Orbits | build the physical model |
| Week 4 | Lecture 08: Jets, Relativistic Beaming, and AGN | Lab and PS 04 |
| Week 5 | Lecture 09: Supernova Remnants as Particle Accelerators | build the physical model |
| Week 5 | Lecture 10: Cosmic Rays and High-Energy Neutrinos | Lab and PS 05 |
| Week 6 | Lecture 11: X-ray Imaging, Timing, and Spectroscopy | build the physical model |
| Week 6 | Lecture 12: Gamma-Ray Instruments and Burst Localization | Lab and PS 06 |
| Week 7 | Lecture 13: Transients and Time-Domain Inference | build the physical model |
| Week 7 | Lecture 14: Multimessenger Synthesis and Research Design | Lab and PS 07 |
Labs and problem sets are deliberately placed after the second lecture in each pair. This cadence lets students connect source physics to a response function, timing record, or transient decision before assessment.