Stephen Kent

Summit, Mt. Rainier (14,410 feet) (Mt. Adams in distance)

Mostly at: Fermilab

Position: Head, Experimental Astrophysics Group

Phone: (630)840-8264

Fax: (630)840-8274

Email: skent-at-fnal.gov

Research: Sloan Digital Sky Survey

Dark Energy from Space JDEM /SNAP

Dark Energy from the Ground Dark Energy Survey

Occasionally at: University of Chicago

Phone: (773)834-4670

Cosmology 101 - For Fermilab HEPers

Chapters:

1. Observational Foundations of Cosmology
2. Review of Special Relativity
3. Metrics
4. Robertson-Walker Metric
Problem 1
5. Dynamics
Problem 2
6. The Universe as a Function of Redshift
Problem 3
7. Classical Tests of Cosmology
8. Models with Finite Pressure
9. Dark Energy
10. Radiation in the Early Universe
11. Statistical Properties of Large Scale Structure
12. Growth of Structure

Sloan Digital Sky Survey

SDSS Links:

SDSS Resources:

www.sdss.org: Public website, a few nuggets of information here, especially under "Collaboration"

www.astro.princeton.edu: Project Book - provides much technical information.

www-sdss.fnal.gov: Fermilab site - documentation of software and current data processing. Restricted access.

www.astro.princeton.edu:81: Princeton site - restricted access. Mailing lists, filter response curves, requirements, primer on using Photo and photo outputs.

Mostly at:	Fermilab
Position:	Head, Experimental Astrophysics Group
Phone:	(630)840-8264
Fax:	(630)840-8274
Email:	skent-at-fnal.gov
Research:	Sloan Digital Sky Survey
Dark Energy from Space	JDEM /SNAP
Dark Energy from the Ground	Dark Energy Survey
Occasionally at:	University of Chicago
Phone:	(773)834-4670