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

Lectures:

02.09.2015	1. Introduction and historical remarks
09.09.2015	2. Direct measurements of cosmic rays
14.09.2015	3. Properties of cosmic rays at low energies
16.09.2015	4. Propagation of cosmic rays in the Galaxy
30.09.2015	5. Fermi acceleration
07.10.2015	6. Galactic and extragalactic sources of cosmic rays
14.10.2015	7. Extensive air showers
21.10.2015	8. Air shower experiments
04.11.2015	9. Radio detection of air showers
09.11.2015	10. Properties of cosmic rays with energies exceeding 100 TeV
25.11.2015	11. Galactic cosmic rays and the knee/Transition to extragalactic origin
02.12.2015	12. Extragalactic cosmic rays
09.12.2015	13. High-energy gamma rays
16.12.2015	14. TeV gamma-ray Galactic sources
06.01.2016	15. TeV gamma rays extraglactic sources/Astrophysical neutrinos
13.01.2016	16. Neutrino astronomy

Problem sessions:

Teaching assistant: Antonio Bonardi (a.bonardi # 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.

07.09.2015	Tutorial 1
21.09.2015	Tutorial 2
23.09.2015	Tutorial 3
28.09.2015	Tutorial 4
05.10.2015	Tutorial 5
12.10.2015	Tutorial 6
19.10.2015	Tutorial 7
23.11.2015	Tutorial 8
30.11.2015	Tutorial 9
01.12.2015	Tutorial 10
07.12.2015	Tutorial 11
08.12.2015	Tutorial 12
14.12.2015	Tutorial 13
11.01.2016	Tutorial 14
12.01.2016	Tutorial 15

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