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

Lectures:

31.08.2016	1. Introduction and historical remarks
14.09.2016	2. Direct measurements of cosmic rays
15.09.2016	3. Properties of cosmic rays at low energies
21.09.2016	4. Propagation of cosmic rays in the Galaxy
29.09.2016	5. Fermi acceleration and sources of cosmic rays
05.10.2016	6. Extensive air showers
12.10.2016	7. Air shower experiments
19.10.2016	8. Radio detection of air showers
26.10.2016	9. Properties of cosmic rays with energies exceeding 100 TeV - Galactic cosmic rays and the knee in the energy spectrum
02.11.2016	10. Extragalactic cosmic rays
03.11.2016	11. High-energy gamma rays
23.11.2016	12. TeV gamma-ray astronomy
24.11.2016	13. Astrophysical neutrinos
30.11.2016	14. Neutrino astronomy
07.12.2016	15. Dark matter
14.12.2016	16. Gravitational waves

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.

07.09.2016	Tutorial 1
08.09.2016	Tutorial 2
22.09.2016	Tutorial 3
28.09.2016	Tutorial 4
06.10.2016	Tutorial 5
13.10.2016	Tutorial 6
20.10.2016	Tutorial 7
09.11.2016	Tutorial 8
10.11.2016	Tutorial 9
16.11.2016	Tutorial 10 tutorial.py please save this ASCii file on your computer as tutorial.py
17.11.2016	Tutorial 11
01.12.2016	Tutorial 12
08.12.2016	Tutorial 13
15.12.2016	Tutorial 14

Literature:

M.S. Longair High Energy Astrophysics (3rd edition) Cambridge University Press
T. Stanev High Energy Cosmic Rays Springer Verlag
T.K. Gaisser, R. Engel Cosmic Rays and Particle Physics, 2nd edition 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
M. Roos Introduction to Cosmology Wiley