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3.00 Credits
A core course intended for graduate students of Physics & Astronomy. The course explores the theory and observational evidence of modern cosmology. Includes brief reviews of general relativity and other background physics and mathematics required to understand cosmology. The course will talk about basic equations describing the universe, the expansion and age of the universe, dark matter and dark energy, the thermal history of the universe, the origin of the light elements, and the blackbody spectra of the cosmic microwave background. The course will also cover topics about the origin of structures in the universe, including cosmological density field, growth of density perturbation, inflation, anisotropy in the cosmic microwave background, galaxy formation, and cosmic reionization. Finally contemporary observational techniques to constrain cosmological parameters will be discussed. Prerequisites: 'C-' or better in ((PHYS 4070 OR PHYS 4080 OR PHYS 4090 OR ASTR 4070 OR ASTR 4080 OR ASTR 4090) AND (PHYS 2710 OR PHYS 3740)) OR Graduate status in Physics/Astronomy.
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3.00 Credits
A core course intended for graduate students of Physics & Astronomy. This course explores high energy phenomena in a variety of astrophysical settings, including within diffuse plasmas and around compact objects. The physical processes producing radiation and particles will be introduced, and techniques for their detection in the X-ray, gamma ray, and cosmic ray regimes will be discussed. Topics include accretion disks, pulsars, non-magnetized neutron stars, binary X-ray sources, black holes, supernovae and supernova remnants, gamma ray bursts, gravitational wave sources, clusters of galaxies, and active galactic nuclei. Prerequisites: 'C-' or better in ((PHYS 4070 OR PHYS 4080 OR PHYS 4090 OR ASTR 4070 OR ASTR 4080 OR ASTR 4090) AND (PHYS 2710 OR PHYS 3740)) OR Graduate status in Physics/Astronomy.
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4.00 Credits
This course builds upon tools introduced in PHYS3730: Introduction to Computing in Physics towards the development of a skillset suitable for solving a wide range of problems in contemporary scientific research. Students may write programs in modern compiled (C++, Fortran...), scripted (Python, Unix Shell, Perl'), and/or symbolic manipulation languages (Maple, Matlab, Mathematica...). Specific topics may include numerical solution of ordinary and partial differential equations, Fourier analysis, the Monte Carlo technique, and wavelet analysis. Current 'hot topics' may be presented at the survey level. Exercises will be chosen to illustrate methods applicable to active research topics. This is a required course for undergraduate students working towards the Computational Physics Emphasis. Prerequisites: 'C-' or better in ((PHYS 3730 OR ASTR 6410 OR PHYS 6720) AND PHYS 3740 AND PHYS 4410 AND PHYS 4420) OR Graduate standing in Physics or related subject.
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