COSMIC WEB
Docenten:
Rien van de Weygaert,
ZG 186, tel. 3634086, weygaert@astro.rug.nl
Lectures: Announcements: Required Knowledge: Exam: Literature: Lecture Notes & Exam Material:
The lecture schedule will be:
Monday 09:00-10:45 hoorcollege/lecture ZG 257
Tuesday 09:00-10:45 hoorcollege/lecture ZG161
Thursday 11:00-12:45 werkcollege/tutorials ZG161
You certainly should have followed the basic lecture course "Cosmology".
Although it will be helpful when you have followed "Large Scale Structure", this is not
a requisite. I will provide an overview of the most crucial aspects in the first lecture week.
The exam will be in the form of a presentation and (critical) report (20 pages) on a particular topic
and/or key scientific publication.
The course will be based on sets of summerschool lecture notes
The course is based upon the lecture notes. Below you find a listing of the notes.
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
Topology of Large Scale Structure pdf
Changbom Park, 2010;
summerschool Redshift Survey and Large Scale Structure;
NAOC, Bejing, June 2010;
Statistical Analysis in Cosmology pdf
Francisco Kitaura (guest lecturer), 2011;
Lecture Schedule:
(provisional, changes possible)
| Week | Dates Hoorcollege | Subject Hoorcollege | Dates Werkcollege | Subject Werkcollege |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Feb 14 (c) Feb 15 (c) | Introduction: : Recapitulation Gravitational Instability Gaussian Fluctuations Power Spectrum A Survey of the Web: Redshift Surveys, Filaments, Sheets & Voids, Clusters of Galaxies | Feb. 17 (w) | recapitulation |
| 2 | Feb 21 (c) Feb 22 (c) | Lagrangian Views: Zel'dovich formalism, Adhesion approach Geometric Models no lecture | Feb 24 (w) | no lecture |
| 3 | Feb 28 (c) Mar 1 (c) Mar 3 (c) |
Hierarchical Structure Formation: Extended Press-Schechter theory Peak & Void Patch Theory the Cosmic Web Theory Void Hierarchy Web Hierarchy Analysis of the Cosmic Web: DTFE Morse Theory, Skeleton, SpineWeb Multicale Morphology Filter Gravitational Potential-based component analysis Analysis of the Cosmic Web: Topology Minkowski Functionals Homology, Persistence \& Alphashapes Shape Finders | Mar 3 (w) | Presentations ? |
| 3 | Mar 7 (c) Mar 8 (c) |
the Gaseous Web: Intergalactic Medium Ly-alpha forest WHIM Francisco Kitaura: Reconstructions of the Cosmic Web | Mar 10 (w) | Presentations |