proposition for masters students 2002/2003

Bronis³aw Rudak bronek w ncac.torun.pl
Czw, 23 Maj 2002, 17:02:39 CEST


Hi Boud,

Thanks for your `Propositions'.
General outline of your Master' projects  looks very good.
What  I suggest to change is the kick-off time:
Oct-Nov2002 is (in my experience) too late
to discuss details of the projects.

Have fun with your students,

  br.



Boud Roukema wrote:

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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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