Hi everyone,
Sorry if the method of deciding and ordering library books on
cosmology was a little confusing - I'm still learning about how things
work here, so I take any blame which is due. A bunch of books has been
ordered, and most have arrived, and Karolina and I will try to make up
a list of these to help guide students and anyone else interested.
Anyway, I just saw that a book has come out by one of the main people
in observational cosmic topology work (Janna Levin):
http://pup.princeton.edu/titles/7324.html
> How the Universe Got Its Spots:
> Diary of a Finite Time in a Finite Space
> Janna Levin
> Cloth | 2002 | $22.95 / ?15.95 | ISBN: 0-691-09657-0
> 224 pp. | 6 x 9 | 68 line illus.
Why I think we should buy this:
* The level of difficulty is for the common reader, but I think this
should be a good motivational book, and good for bringing students up
to "state-of-the-art" cosmology.
* Also, most of the books we have say almost nothing on the
global shape of the Universe.
* There also seems to be a selection effect in the cosmology books we
have so far: 50% of the population is unrepresented, and since the
number of introductory cosmology books we have is something like
a dozen or so, having zero introductory books by women is about
3-4 sigma inconsistent with unbiased selection.
Could anyone with comments please provide them within a week or so?
This way, there would be a chance of having the book not too long
after students start in October-ish...
Cze��
Boud
Cze�� wszystkim,
Wprowadzenie do kosmlogii do studenci od Krak�w/Z.G�ra
wtorek 20 sierpnia 14:00
�roda 21 sierpnia 14:00
wyk�adowca: boud (cosmo-torun(a)astro.uni.torun.pl)
studenci: praktyki(a)astri.uni.torun.pl
Witam wszystko!
dla ostatnia informacja:
http://www.astro.uni.torun.pl/sympa/cosmo-torun/
Cze�� studenci z Krakowie/Zielona G�ra,
Tu s� strony pracy kosmologia w TCfA:
http://www.astro.uni.torun.pl/sympa/
Sugeruj� �e studenci prac*(a)astri.uni.torun.pl mog� tworzy�
lista mejla z archiwem - tu jest przyk�ad archiw:
http://www.astro.uni.torun.pl/sympa/cosmo-torun/2002-08/thrd1.html
z *tej* mejlem, b�dzie:
http://www.astro.uni.torun.pl/sympa/cosmo-torun/2002-08/msg00001.html
- dla rozmawia� o jak uczy� si� o astronomia, gdzie s� dobre sajta
internecie dla jak my�le�cie jest interesuj�cy w astronomia, itd...
Mo�liwe Krzysztof G (chris@astri...) mo�e pomaga� z programem
"mailman" (jest jaki program "sympa").
Je�li chcescie �e robi� wyk�ad o kosmologi�, prosz�
organizowajcie si� dni i czas (np w drugie p�lowie miesi�c,
ale jak chce�cie). Pracuj� w pokoju #36 w budynku radio-owy.
pozdrawiam
boud
Cze�� Krzysztof,
The students from Krak�w/�.G�ra will only officially start in
the radio group during the second two weeks of their visit, but since
once of the best ways they can learn about astronomy research -
including cosmology research - includes learning how to find and
analyse observational data, and this includes them talking to
each other in and writing "reports" on their ideas, i asked Andrzej
Strobel if it could be possible if you could give these students
computer accounts right now, and from the radio group, we could
help straight away by providing them a mailing list using the
"sympa" robot, which would archive all of their email messages
automatically in html files, like these:
http://www.astro.uni.torun.pl/sympa/
In fact, one or two of the students could be the list manager(s),
this can work perfectly OK even if they only have accounts on
astri machines. (I think...)
I would be happy to spend some time with them getting them started,
but you'd need to tell me/them what disk usage is possible/reasonable.
They could of course use the mailing list for discussing spectroscopy
to start off with, and then radio stuff / cosmology later... It's up
to them to take the initiative.
Pozdrawiam
Boud
PS: This message will (hopefully ;) be publicly archived here:
http://www.astro.uni.torun.pl/sympa/cosmo-torun/2002-08/thrd1.html
