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PhD-level course on |
Schedule
(preliminary)
Date |
Time |
Room |
Session |
Topics |
To read |
To hand in |
Teacher |
February 22 |
10-12 |
FC61 |
Lecture 1 |
Lensing in astronomy I: |
Wambsganss (1998): Gravitational
lensing in Astronomy |
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EZ |
March 1 |
13-15 |
FC61 |
Lecture 2 |
Lensing in astronomy II: |
Treu (2010): Hoekstra & Jain (2008): Weak
gravitational lensing and its cosmological
applications |
|
EZ |
March 7 |
10-12 |
FC61 |
Lecture 3 |
Computational aspects of gravitational lensing |
Narayan & Bartelmann (1996): |
|
JJ |
March 16 |
10-12 |
FC61 |
Lecture 4 |
Lensing signatures of CDM subhalos |
Zackrisson & Riehm (2010): |
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TR |
March 23 |
13-15 |
FC61 |
Lecture 5 |
Project introduction & |
Riehm et al. (2009): Strong
lensing by subhalos in
the dwarf galaxy mass range II: Detection probabilities |
|
EZ & JJ |
April 5 |
10-12 |
Aina Elvius |
Tutorial I |
Project work |
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EZ & JJ |
April 12 |
10-12 |
Aina Elvius |
Tutorial II |
Project work |
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EZ & JJ |
April 19 |
10-12 |
Aina Elvius |
Tutorial III |
Project work |
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EZ & JJ |
April 28 |
10-12 |
Aina Elvius |
Tutorial IV |
Project work |
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EZ & JJ |
May 5 |
10-12 |
Aina Elvius |
Tutorial V |
Project work |
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EZ & JJ |
May 11 |
10-12 |
Aina Elvius |
Tutorial VI |
Project work |
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Written essay |
EZ & JJ |
May 17 |
13-15 |
FC61 |
Essays |
Oral presentations |
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EZ & JJ |
Course material
· Ray-tracing code
and documentation
·
Simulation
project: Hunting for dark matter subhalos and
intermediate-mass black holes
· Written essay (minimum 5 pages) + oral
presentation (10 minutes)