Course lectures & talks
- Randall Landsberg, Course opening [PDF]
- Michael Turner, Overview [PDF; PPTX]
- Michael Gladders, Observational Evidence for Dark Matter esp. Gravitational Lensing [PDF; PPT]
- Andrey Kravtsov, Dark Matter & Structure Formation [PDF; PPT]
- Dan Hooper, Particle Physics of Dark Matter & Constraining Dark Matter Candidates [PDF; PPTX]
- Paolo Privitera, Detectors Fundamentals [PDF; PPT]
- Juan Collar, Directly Detecting Dark Matter [PDF; PPTX]
Lab activity
Cluster lab Google Sky & wine bottle - gravitational lensing (Michael D. Gladders, Abby Crites & Denis Erkal)
- Lab 1: Dark Matter in Galaxy Clusters -- Dynamical Masses, Strong Lensing [PDF], Michael D. Gladders
- SOURCE PLANE RECONSTRUCTION OF THE BRIGHT LENSED GALAXY RCSGA 032727-132609* [PDF], Keren Sharon, Michael D. Gladders, Jane R. Rigby, Eva Wuyts, Benjamin P. Koester, Matthew B. Bayliss, L. Felipe Barrientos
- Cluster lab: Clusters [KMZ]
- Cluster lab: Groups [KMZ]
- Hubble lab: random SDSS fields [KML]
- SDSS gal hr [KML]
- SDSS gal [KML]
Pre course readings
- Michael S Turner, "The Dark Side of the Universe" [PDF]
- Michael S Turner, "The Universe" [PDF]
- Matts Roos, "Astrophysical and cosmological probes of dark matter" [PDF]
- Richard J. Gaitskell, "Direct Detection of Dark Matter" [PDF]
- Dan Hooper, "Dark Cosmos: In Search of Our Universe's Missing Mass and Energy"
- J. Einasto, "Large-scale structure of the Universe" [PDF] - a brief historical overview of how large-scale structure of the Universe was discovered and quantified.
- J. Einasto, "Dark Matter" [PDF] - a brief historical overview of how observational evidence for dark matter from cosmic structures have been uncovered.
- Carlos Frenk, "Simulating the formation of cosmic structure" [PDF]
- Martin White, "Models of Structure Formation"
- Martin White, "Comparison of Models"
