The Origin of the Universe - Fall 05

Instructor: V. Celli, Room 311D Physics Bldg, Tel. 924-6573, vc@virginia.edu
Office hours: Monday, 1:30 - 3:00 pm

Textbooks (available from the University Bookstore):
Hawking, Stephen, The Illustrated A Brief History of Time, updated and expanded edition (New York: Bantham, 1998).
Greene, Brian, The Fabric of the Cosmos (Knopf, 2004)

• Course Description
  
• Course Organization: grading policies, syllabus
  
  • Class presentations: titles and dates.
• Lecture notes, and related links to Web sites
• Links to Web sites, with many fine pictures (viewing may be slow)
  
  • Fast view from UVa: locally downloaded Web files (only a few)
    
• Questions and Answers
  
  • See below for easy-mail form.