Heraeus Summer School 2013: Cosmology
August 18-25, 2014, Haus der Astronomie was the venue for the Binational Heraeus Summer School on Cosmology; the first in what is envisioned to be a series of four German-Italian summer schools on astronomy and astrophysics held in Heidelberg (Cosmology, 2013), Padova (Active Galactic Nuclei, 2014), Jena (Gravity, 2015) and Florence (Star formation, 2016).
This page presents selected material from the cosmology summer school.
Schedule and group photo
- Schedule and practical information (PDF 2.8 MB)
- Group photo (JPG, 2.6 MB)
Lectures at the summer school
- Introduction (Björn Malte Schäfer, August 18) 6.58 MB
- Basic cosmology (Markus Pössel, August 19) 2.14 MB
- Nucleosynthesis (Camilla Hansen, August 20) 7.45 MB
- Cosmic distances (Andreas Just, August 22) 2.04 MB
- Cosmic microwave background (Björn Malte Schäfer, August 23) 9.73 MB
- Formation of large-scale structure (Björn Malte Schäfer, August 24) 6.31 MB
Presentations by the participants
- A new Cosmos - a novel Physics (Moritz Hütten, Berlin/Zeuthen) 5.49 MB
- Was genau expandiert im Universum? (Thomas Sperling, Jena) 2.36 MB
- Cosmic distances (NN, Firenze) 17.1 MB
- Cepheids as standard candles (Philipp Engelmann, Jena) 474.67 kB
- The distance to the large magellanic cloud (Stefan Völker, Jena) 259.63 kB
- Gravitational lensing (Stefan Brems, Heidelberg) 437.89 kB
- Macro- and microlensing (Stefan Palenta, Jena) 966.04 kB
- The Virial Theorem and its astronomical applications (Marco Loreggia, Anna Sancassani, Giulia Zuin, Padova) 12.29 MB
- Dark matter (Marlene Götz, Jena) 795.76 kB
- Standard model of particle physics (Lukas Maczewsky, Jena) 1.26 MB
Preparation for the Heidelberg participants: Cosmology block course, Björn Malte Schäfer & Markus Pössel
- General relativity (MP, July 29-31) 8.83 MB
- Expanding universes (MP, July 31-August 1) 2.49 MB
- Observing the expanding universe (MP, August 1-2) 7.69 MB
- Thermal history of the universe and big bang nucleosynthesis (BMS, August 2) 1.31 MB
- Inflation and the cosmic microwave background (BMS, August 3) 5.39 MB
- Cosmological large-scale structure (BMS, August 3) 5.2 MB
- Linear and non-linear structure growth (BMS, August 3 and 5) 1.7 MB
- Dark matter haloes and galaxy formation (BMS, August 5) 1.88 MB
- Cosmology and gravitational lensing (BMS, August 6) 3.4 MB
- Exercises Day 1: General relativity I 37.72 kB
- Exercises Day 2: General relativity II 39.72 kB
- Exercises Day 3: FLRW universes 44.84 kB
- Exercises Day 3: Observing FLRW universes 40.21 kB