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Astro/Physics 224 Origin and Evolution of the Universe Winter 2008 QUESTIONNAIREName:__________________________________________ Taking for credit? ________Department: _____________________ Year: ______ Status: _____________________Email address: _______________________________ UCSC phone number: 459-_____Your background for this course1. Please list briefly the most advanced astronomy courses you have taken and the corresponding instructor(s) and textbook(s) (e.g., undergrad intro survey/Abell, senior survey/Shu, grad galaxies/Faber/Binney&Tremaine):2. Please list any courses you have taken/books you have studied on general relativity (e.g., Schutz, Hartle, Carroll, Weinberg, MTW):3. Please list briefly the most advanced quantum physics course you have taken (e.g., junior QM, grad intro QM, intro QFT, advanced QFT):4. Please list any courses you have taken/books you have studied on particle physics (e.g., undergrad Intro/Perkins, grad Particles/Seiden, grad Weak Interactions/Georgi):5. Please list any other material you have studied that might be relevant:COURSE TOPICS PREFERENCES The following topics are roughly in order of increasing use of speculative particle physics theory. Relative emphasis on each topic in this course will depend on the level of student interest. Please indicate your personal interest in each topic with ++, +, 0, -, or -- (greatest to least interest):____ Big bang nucleosynthesis and the Boltzmann equation: baryon, neutrino, and WIMP abundances____ Structure formation: spectra and evolution of density inhomogeneities; cold dark matter theory and variants____ Cold dark matter theory vs. data: galaxies, clusters, and large scale structure; semi-analytic model and simulations____ Dark matter halo structure and substructure; angular momentum issues; issues in hydrodynamics, star formation, and feedback____ CMB anisotropies, weak lensing, and other probes of inhomogeneities____ Inflation and dark energy/“quintessence” ____ Phase transitions in the early universe: walls, strings, and monopoles____ Baryogenesis____ Particle physics of dark matter candidates: Axions, WIMPs ____ Toward the Planck epoch: multiverse theories, string cosmology, etc.List any other topics you would like included____ ____ Your term project topicYou should start thinking about the topics you might work on for your term project (to be presented as a talk in class or during a separate session toward the end of the quarter). The topic should be directly connected with the course, such as the ages of globular clusters, or theories of large scale structure with decaying particles. Please list one or two tentative topics you might


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