Hi Boud,
Thanks for your `Propositions'. General outline of your Master' projects looks very good. What I suggest to change is the kick-off time: Oct-Nov2002 is (in my experience) too late to discuss details of the projects.
Have fun with your students,
br.
Boud Roukema wrote:
Proposition for Supervising Masters (Magister) projects at TCfA for Oct 2002 - Sep 2003
Supervisor: B. Roukema
Number of students: up to 3-4 students is possible
Title: Observational Constraints on Cosmological Parameters
Description: There are many possible projects which could be done as a master's thesis project, in using publicly available archival data from observational surveys to constrain one or more of the local or global cosmological parameters, either those related to shape (curvature, topology) or maybe also those unrelated to shape ("dark energy"). The precise projects would be chosen in discussion with the masters students during Oct-Nov 2002. Some examples would include further development and application of the "Dark Energy" software package which has been worked on during the "Shape of the Universe" monograph course: http://www.astro.uni.torun.pl/sympa/shape-univ/
Requirements:
- basic knowledge in astronomy, physics, mathematics, computing skills
- desire to measure something about the shape of the Universe
- willingness both to learn from and to teach others interested in
observational cosmology at TCfA
- willingness to learn the following practical skills: touch-typing,
emacs, \LaTeX, usage of the sympa mailing lists
- willingness to participate in the "Shape of the Universe" monograph
course and/or Bronek Rudak's semester 9 "Kosmologia" course: http://www.ncac.torun.pl/~bronek/KOS.html
- nie ma problemu je¶li student magisterowy nie (jeszcze) dobrze mówiæ po
angielsku