Exam:
Oral exam. Please contact me for an appointment.

Lectures:

05.09.2012	1. Introduction and historical remarks
12.09.2012	2. Direct measurements of cosmic rays
19.09.2012	3. Properties of cosmic rays at low energies
24.09.2012	4. Propagation of cosmic rays in the Galaxy (Monday)
03.10.2012	5. Fermi acceleration
08.10.2012	6. Galactic and extragalactic sources of cosmic rays (Monday)
17.10.2012	7. Extensive air showers
29.10.2012	8. Extensive air showers - Heitler model / Air shower experiments (Monday)
31.10.2012	9. Air shower experiments / Properties of cosmic rays with energies exceeding 100 TeV
05.11.2012	10. Galactic cosmic rays and the knee (Monday)
23.11.2012	11. Extragalactic cosmic rays (Friday, 8:30 HG02.702)
28.11.2012	12. Radio detection of air showers/High-energy gamma rays
05.12.2012	13. TeV gamma-ray galactic sources
12.12.2012	14. TeV gamma-ray extragalactic sources
09.01.2013	15. Astrophysical neutrinos
16.01.2013	16. Neutrino astronomy

Problem sessions:

Teaching assistant: Johannes Schulz (j.schulz # astro.ru.nl)

Solutions for the problems will be discussed during the corresponding werkcollege and written on the blackboard.
The students are strongly encouraged to actively participate and present their solutions at the blackboard.
Students who participate regularly (typically 2 to 3 times at the blackboard) will obtain a bonus point for the final exam.
The solutions elaborated by the students will not be collected, they do not need to be delivedred.

10.09.2012	Werkcollege 1
17.09.2012	Werkcollege 2
26.09.2012 (Wednesday)	Werkcollege 3
01.10.2012	Werkcollege 4
10.10.2012 (Wednesday)	Werkcollege 5
15.10.2012	Werkcollege 6
07.11.2012 (Wednesday)	Werkcollege 7
12.11.2012	Werkcollege 8
26.11.2012	Werkcollege 9
03.12.2012	Werkcollege 10
07.01.2013	Werkcollege 11
14.01.2013	Werkcollege 12

Literature:

M.S. Longair High Energy Astrophysics (3rd edition) Cambridge University Press
T. Stanev High Energy Cosmic Rays Springer Verlag
T.K. Gaisser Cosmic Rays and Particle Physics Cambridge University Press
C. Grupen Astroparticle Physics Springer Verlag
V.S. Berezinsky Astrophysics of Cosmic Rays Elsevier Science, North-Holland
D. Perkins Particle Astrophysics Oxford University Press