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Nordita Master Class in Physics 2012

28 July 2012 to 3 August 2012
Hillerød, Denmark
Europe/Stockholm timezone

Reading Material

READING MATERIAL

Study Groups:

Students are divided into 5 study groups who study the problems together.  The details of
the groups are available here. 


Cosmology, dark matter, and dark energy - Øystein Elgarøy, University of Oslo

  • Ned Wright's cosmology tutorial:
    www.astro.ucla.ed u/ ~wright/cosmo_01.htm

  • Thomas F. Jordan: "Cosmology calculations almost without general relativity":
    arxiv.org/abs/astro- ph/0309756

  • Wendy L. Freedman and Edward W. Kolb: "Cosmology",
    in "The New Physics for the Twenty-First Century", ed. Gordon Fraser, Cambridge University Press, 2005.

    The students might find my lecture notes for the cosmology course
    I used to teach useful, and also those of my successor on that course.
    Both sets of notes can be downloaded here.


Physics of planet formation - Kelomanis Tsiganis


The lectures will be base on the lecture notes of Prof. Phil Armitage available at the arxiv .

The slides used in the lecture are uploaded here. 

Suggested further reading:

  • Astrophysics of Planet Formation - P. Armitage, (2012) Cambridge University Press.

  • If you are more more interested in the dynamics of planetary systems , you will find the book Solar System Dynamics (1999, Cambridge University Press) by C.D. Murray and S.F. Dermott useful.

Topology in condensed matter systems - T.H. Hansson

The introductory lecture notes, including two papers can be downloaded here.

The file above does not include the full figure of one of the articles attached in the file. The complete article can be found here. 

The slides of the presentations are available here. 

Tutorial 1

Tutorial 2

The Higgs boson, the Standard Model and beyond - Mads T. Frandsen

To prepare our studies of the Standard Model, the Higgs-mechanism and the Higgs boson here is a suggested reading list, divided into non-technical and technical bits.

Non-technical

  • First of all: the announcement of the first new particle, beyond the Standard Model, discovered at CERN!...maybe the Higgs.

  • A non-technical discussion of the Standard Model and its various parts can be found on Professor Matt Strasslers blog. For example under 'Articles' you can look at 'Particle Physics Basics' where the Standard Model is summarized here and under 'The Higgs Particle'.

Technical:

  • You can find a series of 6 lectures on 'Fundamental Concepts in Particle Physics' by Professor Graham Ross at the 2008 CERN Summer Student Lecture Programme here.

  • There are also 8 lectures on 'The Standard Model' By Professor A. Pich on the same site.

Here is a set of notes with exercises to accompany the lectures. (The notes will be further updated so if you can wait it would make sense to avoid printing them just yet or only print a part.)


Slides of the lectures are uploaded here. 

Please continue to keep an eye on updates and guidance for reading here and feel free to email me with any questions on m.frandsen1@physics.ox.ac.uk

Physics of Climates - John Wettlaufer, Yale and NORDITA

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