V11 The Homogeneous Universe   Lesson 1  Space and Time   ANU ASTRO4x Courseware   edX
Channel: Elis E
Date: 2016-03-23

ANU-ASTRO4x COSMOLOGY

This course is the last of four courses that together make up the ANU’s first year astrophysics program. It is followed by courses on exoplanets, the violent universe and Greatest Unsolved Mysteries of the Universe. I can highly recommend this courses and if you are interested: https://www.edx.org/xseries/astrophysics

Brian Schmidt is an astrophysicist at the Australian National University. He led the team that discovered dark energy – work which won him the 2011 Nobel Prize for Physics.

Paul Francis is an astrophysicist at the Australian National University. He has won many prizes for teaching and science communication, an does research on comets, quasars and high redshift galaxies.

Course Credits:

Project Manager: Paul Francis

Lecturers: Paul Francis and Brian Schmidt

Guest Lecturers: Lawrence Krauss, Charley Lineweaver, Brian Cox, David McClelland, Katie Mack, Matthew Colless, Lisa Kewley and Naomi Mathers.

Film Crew: Jamie Kidston, Jack Fox and Paul Maclay

Photography: Stuart Hay

Administrative Support: Jamie Kidston, Richard Robinson and Stephen Jones

edX Support: Mark Rudnick

Testers:  David Quarel, Todd Harris, Lachlan McGuiness

Captioning: 3Play Media