The detailed syllabus can be found here.
Detailed instructions
(including suggested topics) for the final
research project can be found here.
Mondays and Wednesdays, 10:00-11:15am in PAIS 1160.
Textbook for the class
An Introduction to Modern
Cosmology (3rd Edition) by Andrew Liddle.
Additional resource
Modern Cosmology (2nd
Edition) by Scott Dodelson and Fabian Schmidt.
The older edition is fine too.
Instructor
Mondays and Wednesdays 11:30am-12:30pm at my office
PAIS 3214 These are my preferred "office"
hours. If you can't make my regular office hours, or
if your questions cannot wait, please send me an email
to set up an appointment.
Teaching assistant
The teaching assistant is Loc Ngo (ngophucducloc1995@unm.edu).
He will be available Mondays 11:30am to 12:30pm for
you to come by in PAIS 3414 and
discuss any homework grading issues you may have. If
you need to schedule an appointment outside of the
TA's office hours please send him an email.
The grading in the course will be based on your performance in homework assignments, two midterm exams, and a final exam. The contribution to the final grade is as follows:
If you missed a class in which a worksheet was worked
on, please do the worksheet on your own and hand in to
me at a later date to make sure you don't lose
participation points. You can find all worksheets in
the table below.
There will be 6 assignments during the semester.
The assignments will be posted in the tentative schedule
about 15 days before they are due. The login
information necessary to access the homework PDFs
will be provided in the first class. The homework must be submitted in
class on the day they are due. Late
Homework assignments will be accepted but with a 25%
penalty for each day past the deadline. So a
homework handed-in within 24 hrs of the deadline
will carry a 25% penalty, one handed-in within 48
hrs will carry a 50% penalty, as so on. Let me know if you are
planning on submitting your homework late such
that I can delay the posting of the solutions.
The corresponding solutions will be posted here, and
homework assignments submitted after solutions
post will not be graded.
While I strongly
encourage you to discuss the homework
assignments with your classmates, the work you
hand in must be entirely yours.
