Schedule Spring 2025

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