Exam:
Oral exam. We aim to conduct the exams on June 19th, July 2nd, and July 4th. We will make a detailed schedule begin of June.

Lectures:

05.02.2019	1. Historical introduction, basic properties of cosmic rays
07.02.2019	2. Hadronic interactions and accelerator data
19.02.2019	3. Cascade equations
21.02.2019	4. Electromagnetic cascades
26.02.2019	5. Extensive air showers
28.02.2019	6. Detectors for extensive air showers
09.04.2019	7. High energy cosmic rays and the knee in the energy spectrum of cosmic rays
16.04.2019	8. Radio detection of extensive air showers
25.04.2019	9. Acceleration, astrophysical accelerators and beam dumps
07.05.2019	10. Extragalactic propagation of cosmic rays
16.05.2019	11. Ultra high energy cosmic rays
21.05.2019	12. Astrophysical gamma rays and neutrinos
28.05.2019	13. Neutrino astronomy
04.06.2019	14. Gamma-ray astronomy

Student presentations:

07.03.2019	Cosmic ray anisotropy at TeV energies, IceCube/Top, HAWK	Gerfen, Niek
11.04.2019	Detectors for ultra-high-energy cosmic rays, Auger, TA	Athanasiadou, Sofia
11.04.2019	Proton-air cross section measured by the AUger observatory	Wijte, Thomas
18.04.2019	GZK effect and the end of the cosmic-ray spectrum	Willemsen, Patrick
18.04.2019	Cosmic ray mass composition at the highest energies, Auger, TA	Carrasco I Brossa, Marta
09.05.2019	Cosmic-ray anisotropy at high energies, Auger, TA	Leenders, Olaf
14.05.2019	KM3NeT project, ARCA+ORCA	Bouma, Ronald
14.05.2019	H.E.S.S. TeV gamma-ray astronomy galactic center emission	Khakurdikar, Abha
23.05.2019	Cherenkov telescope array - CTA	Traykov, Viktor
23.05.2019	IceCube neutrino astronomy	de Boone, Eric Teunis
06.06.2019	XENON dark matter search	Mink, Maaike
06.06.2019	LIGO + VIRGO gravitational waves	Terwel, Jacco
06.06.2019	The knee in the energy spectrum of cosmic rays	Yagnik, Jwalant

assistant: Sukanth Karapakula (s.karapakula # astro.ru.nl)

Literature:

T.K. Gaisser et al Cosmic Rays and Particle Physics, 2nd edition Cambridge University Press
Primary literature, journal articles