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Hope you all enjoyed yesterday's exam. In case you want to redo it and lost your copy of the text you can find it here:
http://www.uio.no/studier/emner/matnat/astro/AST3220/v15/resource-files/final3220v15.pdf
You can find a solution here:
http://www.uio.no/studier/emner/matnat/astro/AST3220/v15/resource-files/finalsolution3220v15.pdf
The slides from Licia's lecture yesterday (27th of May) can now be found with the other slides on the course webpage.
This week (27th and 29th of May) Licia will be lecturing on the last parts of the curriculum.
The week after we will have an examination preparatory exercise session on Wednesday the 3rd of June. Because many people have another exam on Friday the 5th of June, we will not have any teaching then. Instead there will be a final exam preaparation class on Monday the 8th of June from 14 to 16 in Peisestua (304).
P.S. Remember that the final mandatory assignment is due this Friday.
Next week (Wednesday 20th of May and Friday 22nd of May) we will do the exercise sets called week 14 and week 15 respectively.
Remember that there is no teaching this Friday (15th of May).
This Wenesday (13th of May), we'll go through the exercise set called week 13 (on inflation).
The slides used on the structure formation lectures on Wednesday and today are know available from the links L. Verde's slides on structure formation I and II which you can find on the main course webpage.
David has finished his lecturing, so on Wednesday we will have a session where you can have help with catching up on exercises you haven't quite finished yet, primarily from the first to chapters.
If you are well ahead you can also come to the class to start the problem on inflation found in the "week 13" exercise set, and after that you can a look at problems 2 and 3 from the final exam in 2013 and problem 4 of last year's exam.
Licia Verde will be teaching the material in chapter 4 on structure formation on the 6th, 8th, 27th and 29th of May.
The third and fourth mandatory assignments (which you can find detailed in exercise sets 13 and 15 respectively) will still be due on the 8th and 29th of May respectively.
Since the exercise session was cancelled last Friday, this week (24th April) we will do both exercise sets 11 and 12.
Mandatory assignment 2 has been corrected, so check devilry, and for those of you who delivered on paper, you can retrive your paper copies on Friday.
The exercise session today (17th of April) is cancelled due to illness.
The mandatory assignment is nevertheless due today, if you want to submit on paper, please put your assignment in Marit's postal shelf.
The material for this session will be covered next Friday, alongside the first exercise material on inflation.
... can now be found from the link in the middle of the web page.
This Friday (17th of April) we will go through exercise set 11.
In this set you will also find the second mandatory assignment, which is due on that day.
This Friday (April 10th) we will tackle the exercise set called week 10, which is on statistical physics and thermodynamics.
In doing the midterm exam, you actually checked the equations in sectioin "II Models" of this article:
http://arxiv.org/abs/1502.05416
which was posted in February.
If you want, you can now try reading the article, which is a real current research article.
Happy easter!
This year's midterm exam can be found here:
http://www.uio.no/studier/emner/matnat/astro/AST3220/v15/resource-files/midterm3220v15.pdf
and the postponed version here:
http://www.uio.no/studier/emner/matnat/astro/AST3220/v15/resource-files/midterm3220v15postponed.pdf
A solution suggestion is available here:
http://www.uio.no/studier/emner/matnat/astro/AST3220/v15/resource-files/midtermsolution3220v15.pdf
For those of you who happen to be at Blindern today anyway, or who can't wait to be reunited with their copies of the midterm exam. It will be possible to pick it up from Marit's office (106) between 15:30 and 16:00 today (Friday the 27th of March). At approximately that time we will also post the problem set and a solution suggestion here.
If you don't want to pick up your exam copy today, you will be able to pick it up at Marit's office, or during lectures or exercise sessions after easter.
This Friday (20th of March) we are having a preparatory session for the upcoming midterm exam as detailed in the exercise set called "Week 9".
This Friday (13th of March) we will work through the exercise set called week 8.
For those of you who delivered your mandatory assignment physically, you can collect your corrected copy then.
Remember that the first mandatory assignement is due this Friday (6th of March).
Details on the assignement can be found in the exercise set called week 7.
We are now back to the usual schedule of lectures on Wednesdays and exercises on Fridays.
This Friday (6th of March) we are working on the exercise set called week 7.
Remember that the first mandatory assignemnet, details on which you can find in exercise set 7, is also due on Friday.
Next week (NOTE: Wednesday the 25th of februrary) we will do the exercise set called week 6.
Note also that we are approaching the deadline of the first mandatory assignement. The assignement can be found within the set called week 7 and is due on Friday the 6th of March. If possible, please deliver your assignement using devilry: https://devilry.ifi.uio.no/authenticate/login?next=/devilry_frontpage/
Remember that there will be a lecture this Friday the 20th of February in the place of exercise class
This week (NOTE: ON WEDNESDAY THE 18TH) we will work on the exercise set called week 5.