Prerequisites: graduate standing; PHYS 226
Description: An introduction to current research in particle astrophysics: the very early universe, the origin of matter, primordial perturbations, the origin of structure, the nature of dark matter, vacuum energy, matter-antimatter asymmetry, neutrino astrophysics, gravitational radiation, black holes, the origin of ultrahigh energy cosmic rays, and Hawking radiation. Students whose research is related to cosmology or astroparticle physics receive a letter grade; other students receive a letter grade or
Credit: Satisfactory (S) or No Credit (NC) grade.