Occasional PhD lectures
Occasional PhD lectures are aimed at a PhD student level and are being offered as non-assessable content that will expose PhD
students to a wider astrophysics topic range than their individual thesis areas allows.
Statistics PhD Lecture series - August, 2012
Chris Blake delivered a 4-lecture course on practical statistics for astronomy PhD students. The slides and problem sets, plus some useful links, can be found on Chris Blake's page.
Cosmology PhD Lecture series - March, 2007
This PhD Lecture series occurred during March 5-12, 2007. The lecturers and titles were:
Karl Glazebrook (Swinburne) | Intro. to Classical and Physical Cosmology | |
Chris Power (Swinburne) | Large Scale Structure and Evolution | |
Chris Fluke (Swinburne) | Gravitational Lensing: Strong, Weak and Microlensing | |
Paul Cally (Monash) | Magnetohydrodynamics and Helioseismology |
The timetable was:
Date | 11am | 2pm | |||
Mon March 5 | KG | KG | KG_ClassicalCosmology.pdf | KG_PhysicalCosmology.pdf | KG_prob-sheet.pdf |
Tue March 6 | KG | CP | CP_lecture1.ppt | ||
Wed March 7 | CP | CP_lecture2.ppt | |||
Thu March 8 | CP | CP_lecture3.ppt | |||
Fri March 9 | CF | CF | |||
Mon March 12 | PC | PC | PC_Global.ppt | PC_MHD.ppt |