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 target ASTR 5770 Cosmology Fall 2025: Projects


Projects

Each of you will make a 10-minute presentation, followed by a 5-minute question session, in class, on a ground- or space-based survey, mission, or experiment, past, present, or planned, whose goals are relevant to cosmology. You will make your presentation during the week Nov 10-14, the penultimate week before the Fall Break.

Two weeks before your presentation, deadline Oct 31, you will post a 10-minute zoom version of your presentation. Please email me the link that zoom will provide to you, no later than the Fri Oct 31 deadline (with no passcode please: the recording will be behind the CU firewall). Watch your own zoom recording. You are your own best critic!

Each of you will sign up as a reviewer of 3 of the presentations. Your choices will be posted on this page. First come first served. Each of 3 reviewers takes responsibility for asking questions during the 5 minute q&a period.

The first problem set of the semester is to select a survey/mission/experiment, and to write a short abstract explaining your selection. Your selected survey will be posted here.

The grading is:

In grading, I look for: clarity; organization; accuracy; adequate references; response to questions; avoidance of tics (um, er, like).

The list of presentations will be posted on this web page.

Topics from a previous class (2021):
Date Name Survey/Mission/Experiment
1. M Nov 8Ryan SkoletskyJames Webb Space Telescope (JWST) 2021
2. M Nov 8Anna EstesEuropean Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT) 2024
3. M Nov 8Daniel MendozaEuclid
4. W Nov 10Johnny Dorigo-JonesAthena X-ray Observatory
5. W Nov 10Joshua HibbardDark Ages Polarimeter Pathfinder Epoch of Reionization (DAPPER)
6. W Nov 10Dale GrayIceCube Neutrino Detector
7. F Nov 12Shane ZhangWilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP)
8. F Nov 12Tyler BishopLaser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA)


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