|
ASTR/PHYS
328/428 -
Cosmology and the Structure of
the
Universe
Fall
2008
Grading Policies:
|
| Homeworks can be worked on
collaboratively, but each
person must turn
in their own unique
writeup/analysis. Groupwork should be written up ApJ-style, with a title/abstract, sections describing introduction, methodology, results (and discussion thereof), and conclusions, and a properly formatted reference list. Groupwork should be written up collaboratively, with an explicit statement at the end describing how the work was divided up amongst the team. Graduate Students will typically have an extra problem or two on each homework set, will have more detailed group assignments, and will also have a project (paper & presentation) on a topic chosen in consultation with the instructor. Late HW policy: You get one free late (up to 1 week) homework. After that, it's a penalty of 20% for every day late. Late groupwork will not be accepted. |
Grade Weights
|
Homework Sets &
Groupwork
|
| HW #1 | Sep
11 |
| GW
#1 |
Sep
23 |
| HW #2 | Oct
2 |
| GW
#2 |
Oct
14 |
| HW #3 | Oct
30 |
| GW
#3 |
Nov
13 |
| HW
#4 |
Dec
4 |
| Group
1 |
Group
2 |
Group 3 | Group
4 |
| Balko |
Engle |
Joseph |
Ma |
| McJunkin |
Wilson |
Riley |
Phelps |
| Boon |
Savani |
Slater |
Fergusen |
| Harchelroad |
Misra |
Sabree |
Schedule and
Content
(tentative; future dates/topics always subject to
change)
| Aug 26 |
Foundations
of Modern Cosmology Curved Space and Metrics |
| Aug 28 |
The
Cosmological
Redshift Newtonian Cosmology The Friedmann Equation |
| Sep 2 |
Dark
Matter and Dark Energy Cosmological Parameters |
| Sep 4 |
Dynamics
and Lookback Times Age Tests |
| Sep 9 |
Cosmological
Observables Morphology of High Redshift Galaxies |
| Sep 11 |
Metric-Based
Tests of
Cosmology Supernovae Cosmology |
| Sep 16 |
Big Bang Nucleosynthesis |
| Sep 18 |
The Cosmic Microwave Background |
| Sep 23 |
Parameter
Estimation from the CMB The Extragalactic Distance Scale |
| Sep 25 |
Surface
Brightness Fluctuations Type Ia Supernovae |
| Sep 30 |
Tully-Fisher |
| Oct 2 |
Dn-sigma / Fundamental Plane Secondary Indicators -- Summary |
| Oct 7 |
"Direct"distance
indicators: Sunyaev Zeldovich Effect Gravitational Lensing |
| Oct 9 |
Growth of Structure |
| Oct 14 |
Adiabatic
vs Isothermal
Fluctuations |
| Oct 16 |
Midterm Exam |
| Oct 21 |
Fall Break |
| Oct 23 | Growth
of Structure w/ Dark
Matter Using Structure to Test Cosmology |
| Oct 28 |
Galaxy Clustering |
| Oct 30 |
Large
Scale Motions in the Universe |
| Nov 4 |
Cosmological Minihalos and the First Stars |
| Nov 6 |
Non-linear collapse of galaxies |
| Nov 11 |
Non-linear collapse of galaxies (cont) |
| Nov 13 |
Hierarchical Galaxy Formation and Evolution: Theory |
| Nov 18 |
Lyman Break and Sub-mm Galaxies |
| Nov 20 |
Galaxy Evolution via Deep Field Studies |
| Nov 25 |
The Fossil Record of Galaxy Formation |
| Nov 27 |
Thanksgiving Break |
| Dec 2 |
The
Future of the Cosmos |
| Dec 4 |
Graduate Student Presentations |
| Dec 17 |
Final
Exam (8:30-11:30) |
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