PS sem assignments

Spring quarter - Seminar Reading Assignments in Astronomy and Cosmology

Required: RL = Red Limit; B=Bubbles, Voids, and Bumps in Time; EU = Elegant Universe

(Recommended): HH = Hawley and Holcomb, Foundations of Modern Cosmology ; K = Krupp, Echoes of Ancient Skies; FP = Stars of the First People, by Dorcas Miller; SA = Scientific American special issue on modern cosmology, U = Universe, by Kaufmann and Freedman (our primary text in the Astronomy and Cosmology program), A = Audubon Society Guide to the Night Sky (including classic myths about celestial objects). Some of these texts are on closed reserve in the Library. Use these resources especially when you are presenting, facilitating, or hungry for more knowledge. They tend to be more reliable than web pages.

Astronomy - Tuesday	week (Universe reading)	Cosmology - Thursday
WebX intro get Scientific American in class and read 2. Making sense of Modern Cosmology	1 1,3 Apr U 1-2, Space & time K1: The sky	EU Ch.1-2: String, Space & Time (HH 1: In the Beginning) (SA 2. Making sense of Modern Cosmology)
RL p.13-60: Intro + Ch.1: Expansion of the Universe (HH 2: Cosmology becomes a science)	2 8,10 Apr U 2-3: Moon K7: Time	EU Ch. 3-4: Warps and QM (HH 8: GR; SA 58: Is space finite?)
B Ch.1, 2: Intro, Measuring the Universe (HH 3: Newton's machine)	3 15,17 Apr U 3-4: Gravity	EU Ch. 5-6: GR vs QM, Superstring Theory (HH 11: Modeling the universe)
RL Ch. 2-3: Cosmology and Why is the sky dark at night? (HH 4: Light)	4 20, 24 Apr (finishing gravity)	B Ch. 3-4: Mapping and Weighing universe (HH 14: Dark matter and large-scale structure; SA 74: A cosmic cartographer)
(no class - work on research projects)	5 29 Apr, 1 May	(no class - work on research projects)
RL Ch.4-6: Lookback time, Creation, and Echo of creation (HH 13: Early universe)	6 5-9 May: U 5-6: Light, scopes K2: ancient obs	EU Ch. 7-9: Super, Dimensions, Evidence (HH 12: Message from Big Bang; SA 76: Echoes from the Big Bang; SA 66: The universe's unseen dimensions)
RL Ch.7-8: Eternal universe, Red limit (HH10: Expanding universe; SA 4. The first stars in the universe; SA 22. Surveying spacetime with supernovae)	7 13, 15 May U 18: Sun K. p.148-156, 231-236	B Ch. 5: Big Bang, Inflation EU Ch. 10 Quantum geometry (HH 15: Inflationary Universe) (SA 30. Cosmological antigravity, SA 40. The quintessential universe
RL Ch.9-10: Fate of the universe, Expanding cosmology SA 30, 40	8 20, 22 May U 19 (20-22), HH 5: Stars K3, K4: Myths	EU Ch. 11-13: Fabric of space, M-Theory, Black holes (HH 9: Black holes)
B Ch.6: Questions for the future (SA 98: Plan B for the cosmos)	9 27, 29 May U 28 (29): Cosmology K13: Cosmologies	EU Ch. 14-15 (Cosmology, Prospects) (HH 16: Edge of time)
TBD	10 3, 5 June	TBD
evals	11 9-11 June	evals