David B. Kaplan
updated 4/26/04
Physics 555 - Cosmology -
Spring 2004
General Information
Office hours, grading policy, etc.
Assignments and Solutions
(problem set #4 posted, Due Friday 6/4; solution set #3 posted 5/24)
Lecture notes
Updated 5/10; see physical & cosmological constants posting
Schedule for presentations
Some cosmology links (tell me about new ones):
Tutorials:
Ned Wright's Cosmology Tutorial
Cambridge Cosmology
Scott's tutorial on the CMB
Dursi's tutorial on dark matter
Harvard CFA intro to cosmology
Wayne Hu's home page
Dark matter (with Java applets)
Big bang nucleosynthesis
Tom Quinn's home page
(nice movies of galaxy formation simulations)
Hubble's discovery of cosmological expansion
(the original paper)
Experiments, observations
WMAP mission and results
COBE
Boomerang
MACHO
High redshift supernova project
Deep sky image sites (sights)
2df galaxy redshift survey
Reviews
Astro-Particle physics
(many different reviews to choose from here)
Dark matter
(very recent, up-to-date)