Public lectures and articles on the
Expansion of the Universe

Prof. J. Jersák, RWTH Aachen, Institute of Theoretical Physics

History of expansion in English, ppt-file (From Lemaitre to quantum gravity)
Colloquium in English, ppt-file
Expansion formulae summary, pdf-file (Backbone of the LambdaCDM model, 4 pages)
Lecture in German, ppt-file
Lecture in German, pdf-file
1st article in Czech, pdf-file (Published in journal Vesmir 87, 40 (2008)).
2nd article in Czech, pdf-file (Published in journal Cs. Cas. Fyz. 58, 136 (2008)).

Recommended internet sources and literature:

• Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) Daily new pictures from the space
• SDSS Quasars, Galaxies, ...
• Article about the expansion in Scientific American (Ch.Lineweaver and T.Davis)
  Excellent and easily understandable description of the expansion of the Universe
  
• Recent article about the expansion in Scientific American (L.M.Krauss and R.J.Scherrer)
  A scenario for the expansion of the Universe in a very distant future.
• Cosmology in Wikipedia
• Cosmology tutorial (N.Wright)
• Evidence for the Big Bang (B. Feuerbacher and R. Scranton)
• Hubble diagram and cosmic expansion History of the understanding of the expansion (R.P.Kirshner)
• Quintessence Public lectures by Prof. Ch. Wetterich (Heidelberg)
• In an expanding universe, what doesn't expand? (R.H.Price)
• Davis & Lineweaver A very competent and only moderately difficult article with excellent illustrations
• Light cone figures (M. Whittle)
• Recent results on cosmic microwave background (CMB) (Kosmische Mikrowellen-Hintergrundstrahlung)
• Excellent and readable book: E.Harrison, Cosmology, 2.Edition, Cambridge 2000
  Deutsche Übersetzung: Verlag Darmstädter Blätter, 1983
• List of books on cosmology (J.S. Tenn)
• Lectures Gravitation and Cosmology, J.Jersák, RWTH, SS07, Chap. 18,19
  (a copy of the manuscript is available in the Physik-Bibliothek im Physikzentrum der RWTH)
• The recent most competent (and in part rather demanding) description of current cosmological ideas on expert level,
  S. Weinberg, Cosmology, Oxford Univ. Press, 2008.
  

email: jersak@physik.rwth-aachen.de