AS7009 Cosmology, 7.5 hp, Fall 2011
Literature:	Barbara Ryden, 2002, "Introduction To Cosmology",  Pearson Higher Education ISBN 0805389121 or 9780805389128
Contents:	The world models of general relativity, cosmic expansion, thermodynamics and nucleosynthesis in the early Universe, dark matter and dark energy, methods for measuring cosmological parameters, structure formation, the cosmic microwave background radiation, inflation.
Prerequisites:	Knowledge corresponding to the first two years of a Bachelor's degree in physics, or similar.
Examination:	Seminars, literature report and hand-in exercises.
Teacher:	Erik Zackrisson, ez(at)astro.su.se, phone: 08-5537 8556
Time:	November-December 2011
If you are interested in participating, please notify Erik Zackrisson as soon as possible!

Schedule
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Date	Time	Room	Lecture/ Exercise session/ Seminar	Topics	To read	To turn in/prepare
Nov 3	10-12	FC61	Lecture 1	Course information Course overview Cosmic epochs	Chapter 1
Nov 8	10-12	FC61	Lecture 2	Cosmological principle Cosmic expansion General relativity Metrics	Chapter 2 + first half of chapter 3
	13-15	FC61	Lecture 3	Robertson-Walker metric Proper distance Cosmic dynamics	Second half of chapter 3 + chapter 4
Nov 10	10-12	FC61	Lecture 4	Dynamics with single and multiple components Concordance cosmology Fate of the Universe	Chapters 5 + 6
Nov 15	10-12	FC61	Lecture 5	Measuring cosmological parameters Dark energy	Chapter 7
	13-15	FC61	Exercise session I	Exercises 1-6
Nov 17	10-12	FC61	Lecture 6	Dark matter	Chapter 8
	13-15	FC61	Lecture 7	Cosmic microwave background radiation	Chapter 9
Nov 22	10-12	FC61	Seminar I (1st group)	Common misconceptions about modern cosmology		See instructions for seminar I
	12:30-14:30	FC61	Seminar I (2nd group)	Common misconceptions about modern cosmology		See instructions for seminar I
Nov 24	10-12	FC61	Lecture 8	Big bang nucleosynthesis The early Universe	Chapter 10
	13-15	FC61	Exercise session II	Exercises 7-12		Hand-in exercises 1-3
Nov 29	10-12	FC61	Lecture 9	Inflation	Chapter 11
Dec 1	10-12	FC61	Lecture 10	Structure formation	Chapter 12	Hand-in exercises 4-6
Dec 7	10-12	FC61	Seminar II (1st group)	Strange Universe		See instructions for seminar II
	13-15	Aina Elvius	Seminar II (2nd group)	Strange Universe		See instructions for seminar II
Dec 12	13-15	FC61	Exercise session III Cancelled!	Exercises 13-18 Cancelled!		Written literature report
Dec 14	10-12, 13-15	FC61	Oral reports			Oral literature report
Dec 19						Hand-in exercises 7-9

Examination

· Two seminars

· Three sets of hand in-exercises

· Written essay (minimum 3 pages) + oral presentation (10 minutes)

Course material

· Grading criteria

· More on proper distance

· Seminar instructions: I, II

· Dataset for seminar II

· Exercises (including hand-ins)

· Solutions from exercise session III

· Lecture notes: L1, L2, L3, L4, L5, L6, L7, L8, L9, L10

Errata

· None so far