Schedule Spring 2025

Date	Topics	Slides	Tutorials	Homework
Jan 27	Intro, Historical perspective on gravitational lensing
Jan 29	Bending of light 1
Jan 29	Bending of light 2
Feb 03	Gravitational lensing formalism 1 - the lens equations
Feb 05	Gravitational lensing formalism 2 - observables and degeneracies
Feb 10	Mass distributions and deflection angles
Feb 12	Lens modeling and posterior inference
Feb 17	Bayesian statistics
Feb 19	Python and software development
Feb 24	Time-delay cosmography and the TDCOSMO project
Feb 26	Double source plane lenses
Mar 03	Caustics and critical curves - the strong lensing cross-section
Mar 06	The abundance of strong lenses and how to find them
Mar 10	Multi-plane lensing and exotic lenses - Einstein zig-zac and caustic catastrophes
Mar 12	Micro-lensing I
Mar 17	Spring Break - no classes
Mar 19	Spring Break - no classes
Mar 24	Micro-lensing II
Mar 26	Quasar microlensing
Mar 31	Lensed supernovae - SN Refsdal and more
Apr 02	Dark substructure I - gravitational imaging
Apr 07	Dark substructure II - flux ratio statistics
Apr 09	Galaxy cluster lensing
Apr 14	Cosmic shear
Apr 16	CMB lensing
Apr 21	Lensing of a single star
Apr 23	Lensed gravitational waves
Apr 28	Final project work & special topic TBD
Apr 30	Final project work & special topic TBD
May 05	Final project work & special topic TBD
May 07	Final presentations