proposition for masters students 2002/2003

[Boud Roukema]

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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

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