Advanced courses
The Discovery center takes part in the teaching of physics courses at all levels at the Niels Bohr Institute. Students interested in pursuing Discovery-related fields of research might be inspired by this list of relevant courses:
M.Sc. and Ph.D. courses:
Ph.d. course: Advanced simulation techniques in particle physics and cosmology
Contact persons: Stefania Xella, Rasmus Mackeprang
Dates: Nov. 15-19, 2010
Aim: This elite PhD course will provide the students with detailed and state-of-the-art knowledge of simulation techniques, which are crucial for interpretation of data from particle colliders or observations in astrophysics.
Applied Statistics: From Data to Results
Contact persons: Troels C. Petersen
Block structure: 1. blok
Aim: To give students a basic knowledge of statistics.
General Relativity and Cosmology
Contact persons: Niels Obers
Block structure: 1 st. block
Aim: The purpose of this course is that the student obtains a basic understanding of general relativity and cosmology, and becomes able to apply this to elementary phenomena.
Elementary Particle Physics
Contact persons: Poul Henrik Damgaard
Block structure: 2nd. block
Aim: The purpose of this course is to give the student an elementary understanding of relativistic quantum field theory, and to enable the student to apply it to the calculation of fundamental phenomena such as cross sections, decay rates, etc.
Experimental nuclear and particle physics
Contact persons: Stefania Xella and Peter Hansen
Block structure: 3 rd. block
Aim: The purpose of this course is for the students to learn how subatomic particles are detected in modern physics experiments and how data from a particle detector is analyzed to measure the basic properties of subatomic particles. An introduction to particle accelerators will be given as well.
The course will conclude with a two day trip to the DESY laboratory in Hamburg, where we will visit a modern particle physics experiment and the European X-Ray laser facility.
This course is central for any later course or master/PhD project where an understanding of experimental subatomic physics is required.
Contact persons: Jan Ambjørn
Block structure: 3 rd. block
Aim: This course is an introduction to Quantum Field Theory. Emphasis is on the part of quantum field theory which is not just relativitic quantum mechanics.
Quantum Field Theory 2
Contact persons: Niels Obers, Niels Emil Bjerrum-Bohr, Marta Orselli, Costas Zoubos
Block structure: 4 th. block
Aim: The purpose of the course is to introduce students to a number of advanced topics in quantum field theory, such that both a conceptual and technical understanding of these topics is achieved.
Contact persons: Pavel Naselsky, Jaiseung Kim, Martin Hansen
Block structure : 2 th. block
Aim: The purpose of the course is to introduce students to a number of advanced topics in cosmology , inflation and the CMB physics , including modern observational data (WMAP, PLANCK).
Particle physics at the energy frontier
Contact persons: Jørgen Beck Hansen
Block structure: 4 th. block
Aim: The course aims to give the student insight in the way modern particle physics experiments are constructed and operated and educate the students in experimental particle physics at present and future high energy colliders. The student are introduced to fundamental high energy physics computer tools as employed to calculate reactions cross-sections, to simulate physics processes and describe detector response. This course is suitable for master and graduate students interested in working as researcher at the frontier of particle physics research.
One hour lectures:
Introduction to Inflation (Part 1 and Part 2)
Lecturer: Hael Collins
Aim: The main goal of these lectures is to give the other members of the high energy group some familiarity with the basic ideas of inflation and a little of its standard terminology, with the intention of making some of the future cosmology seminars a little more intelligible.
