COSMIC WEB



Caput Lecture Course
Cosmic Web
October 2017
University Groningen





Docenten:
    Rien van de Weygaert,

                      ZG 186,   tel. 3634086,   weygaert@astro.rug.nl




Lectures:

The lecture schedule will be:n

      Monday    09:00-10:45       hoorcollege/lecture               ZG161     
         Tuesday   13:00-15:00       hoorcollege/lecture               ZG161     
         Friday      11:00-13:00       werkcollege/tutorial              Energy Academy 194     




Announcements:





Required Knowledge:

You certainly should have followed the basic lecture course "Cosmology".
Although it will be helpful when you have followed "Cosmic Structure Formation", this is not a requisite.




Exam:

The exam will be in the form of a presentation and (critical) report (20 pages) on a particular topic and/or key scientific publication.




Lecture Notes:

The course is based upon the lecture notes, summerschool lecture notes and review/lecture papers. Below you find a listing of the notes.

      Generals                                                                           pdf

      Cosmic Web: Setting the Scene                                        pdf

      Cosmic Web: Observational Probes                                  pdf

      Cosmic Web: Dynamics                                                    pdf

      Cosmic Web: Identication & Classification                      pdf

      Cosmic Web: Cosmic Voids                                              pdf


The following review/lecture papers will be part of the course:


      Clusters and the Theory of the Cosmic Web                    pdf
         van de Weygaert & Bond 2008a;
         A Pan-Chromatic View of Clusters and the Large-Scale Structure;
         Lecture notes in Physics 740;
         eds. M. Plionis, O. Lopez-Cruz, D. Hughes

      Observations and Morphology of the Cosmic Web           pdf
         van de Weygaert & Bond 2008b;
         A Pan-Chromatic View of Clusters and the Large-Scale Structure;
         Lecture notes in Physics 740;
         eds. M. Plionis, O. Lopez-Cruz, D. Hughes

      Geometric Analysis of the Cosmic Web                            pdf
         van de Weygaert & Schaap 2009;
         Data Analysis in Cosmology;
         Lecture notes in Physics 665;
         eds. V. Martinez, E. Saar, E. Martinez-Gonzalez, M. Pons-Borderia

      Bayesian large-scale structure inference;                            pdf
         Leclercq 2015;
         Bayesian large-scale structure inference and cosmic web analysis;
         PhD thesis, Inst. d'Astrophysique de Paris (IAP), 2015;