Course Outline
MAE 192 Senior Seminar
New Cosmology
Fall Quarter:  September 27 to November 22, 2006

Time and place:  Wednesdays at 10:00-11:50 am, EBU2 479.  Seminar will meet September 27; October 11,25; November 8,22.
Course Code:  Section ID 577447
Instructor:  Carl H. Gibson, Professor of Engineering Physics and Oceanography, 575 EBU2, 534-3184, cgibson@ucsd.edu, http://www-acs.ucsd.edu/~ir118.  Office hours after class.
Teaching Assistant:  none
Textbook:  Book and reading lists.  Exploration of internet resources.
Course description:   Discussions with senior (and other) UCSD students about observations from a variety of new space and earth telescopes.  These require substantial revisions in the standard model (new cosmology) to explain how the universe appeared in the first place, and how structures like galaxies, stars and planets formed.  
Grading:  Pass not pass.