In the accompanying .pdf document you'll find a listing of suggested topics for an exam report. In the listing you find included suggested literature and a short description. Please choose one of them, decide about whether you wish to write a report by yourself or in collaboration with someone else, contact the lecturer who suggested the topic and finally inform the coordinator R. van de Weijgaert (E-mail: weygaert@astro.rug.nl) about the final decision. Then, have an interesting time investigating the topic and producing a thrilling report ...:
Subjects IAC2003 reports, a short listing: Subjects branded
by an * have been reserved. It may be possible
to reserve this topic also, but to that end inquire with lecturer & coordinator about
possibility to do so.
1 Evidence for Dark Energy Peter Katgert * 2 The Cyclic Universe Bob Sanders * 3 The self-reproducing inflationary Universe Bob Sanders * 4 Parallel Universes Bob Sanders * 5 The Wheeler-de Witt equation
and the wave function of the Universe Bob Sanders * 6 Large extra dimensions and the Brane World Bob Sanders 7 The anthropic principle in cosmology Bob Sanders 8 Neutrinos and Cosmology Jan Smit 9 Cosmological constraints on neutrino mass Leo van den Horn * 10 Cosmological constraints on neutrino flavours Leo van den Horn * 11 Baryogenesis Jan Smit 12 Primordial Nucleosynthesis: Observations Leo van den Horn 13 Cosmic Flows and Redshift Space Distortions Rien van de Weijgaert 14 Power Spectrum Estimation Rien van de Weijgaert 15 Weak Lensing by Large Scale Structure Rien van de Weijgaert * 16 Cosmology and Clusters of Galaxies Rien van de Weijgaert * 17 Thermalization and Spectral Distortions
of the cosmic background radiation Rien van de Weijgaert 18 Cosmic Microwave Background Anisotropies:
Characteristic Angular ScalesRien van de Weijgaert * 19 CMB Experiments:
Maps, Power Spectra and Cosmological Parameter Estimation Rien van de Weijgaert * 20 Cosmic Microwave Background Polarization Rien van de Weijgaert * 21 The cosmic star formation history
from optical data Paul van der Werf * 22 Semianalytical models of the formation
and evolution of the galaxy
populationPaul van der Werf * 23
The History of Inflationary Cosmology Bram
Achterberg ** 24
Observational Tests of Inflation Bram
Achterberg * 25
The evolving QSO Luminosity Function Peter Barthel 26
Quasar abundances and chemical enrichment in the early universe Peter Barthel 27
Damped Ly-alpha absorbers, constraining evolving galactic disks Peter Barthel 28
The X-ray background: obscured accretion and black holes Peter Barthel 29
Type-2 QSO's Peter Barthel 30+
Quintessence Theories Bram Achterberg
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