Seminarium (definition varies with year)

when/where

communication

what

abstract

• The aim of this course is that the students will gain an elementary intuitive and formal background to understanding the present state of astronomical research about the shape of the Universe. The emphasis will be on observational strategies. General relativity and the details of modern observational cosmology will only be presented very briefly; students who are interested will need to develop deeper understanding through their own reading and other courses.

more details

• szkic monographu dla systemu ECTS - MonographCosmoOpisShapeUniverse
• prezentacja pdf - monog_140523.pdf
  • also cosmic topology + topological acceleration pdf or video on PeerTube, 3 Feb 2022, Hobart
  • FLRWEquationsGR - maxima
• WikipediaPl:Kosmologia_obserwacyjna
• WikipediaPl:Kształt_Wszechświata
• WikipediaPl:Współrzędne_współporuszające_się -> odległości kosmologiczne
• WikipediaPl:Inflacja_kosmologiczna
• topologia Wszechświata:
  • krótki podsumowanie: Roukema 2000: AstroPh:0010185
  • głeboki: Luminet & Roukema 1999: AstroPh:9901364, Lachieze-Rey & Luminet 1995: GrQc:9605010
• topologia i dynamika: AstroPh:0602159 + ArXiv:0902.3402 or ArXiv:0905.2543
  • topologia i ciemna energia: ArXiv:0904.0975
• obserwacji - ArXiv:0807.4260 i artykuły tam zacytowany
  • software: http://cosmo.torun.pl/GPLdownload/dodec/
• beyond the standard model: assume that the Einstein equations are correct: http://cosmo.torun.pl/~boud/inhomog110406.pdf

shape of the Universe

• http://la.wikisource.org/wiki/De_revolutionibus_orbium_coelestium/02 "Rem quoque præcipuam, hoc est mundi formam, ас partium eius certam symmetriam non potuerunt invenire, vel ex illis colligere."
• Copernicus believed that the symmetries and the shape of the Universe are the principal thing.
• history of the term shape of the Universe: HistoryOfTheTermShapeOfTheUniverse

summary of modern cosmology

• AstroPh:0602280 - George Ellis - Issues in the Philosophy of Cosmology - this is a proper scientific approach, i.e. serious philosophy explained in simple (scientific) words
• GrQc:9812046 - George Ellis - relativistic cosmology - standard + beyond standard 1998 Cargese notes

online intros to cosmology

• http://theory.physics.helsinki.fi/~cosmology/

wims - wersja online

• http://cosmo.torun.pl/wims -> students' area
• Dlaczego coś jak wims? http://wims.unice.fr/paper/pqt.pdf - a paper explaining the principle of tests with open-question sets. WIMS can be used to implement this principle.
• WimsDyskusja

traditional exercises

• John Peacock has some nice online cosmology exercises: http://www.roe.ac.uk/~jap/teaching/cos5.html

intuition building

• http://www.geom.uiuc.edu/video/sos/
  • http://www.geom.uiuc.edu/software/tilings/TilingSoftware.html
• geomview can be installed in any typical GNU/Linux distribution (e.g. sudo aptitude install geomview )

how

• cosmdist C library or f77 library or command line tool: https://codeberg.org/boud/cosmdist
  • ./configure && make && make install

who

• się dodaj do listy, np Main.PiotrNowak
• BoudRoukema (lecturer)

exam

• exam: to be negotiated with the students