Gravitational Lensing

Lectures:

   Fridays from 10:15-11:45 in TUM Physics II room 227

   First lecture: October 17, 2025 at 10:15  

Lecturer:

   Prof. Dr. Sherry Suyu

Announcements:

• Q&A Session before the exam: Friday,  Feb. 13th from 10:15 to 11:45 at PH 3024. 
  If you already know something you want to ask, please send your questions in advance to cristine.koelln@eso.org, so I can prepare a more detailed answer! 

• NEW TUTORIAL TIME! Fridays, 8:30-10:00 at PH 3024

• The tutorial in the week of November 18 will be held during the lecture slot on November 21, i.e. on Friday from 10:15-11:45 in TUM Physics II room 227

Tutorials:

   Fridays from 08:30-10:00 at PH 3024

   First session starts on November 4, 2024.

Tutors:

  Cristine Koelln
  cristine.koelln@eso.org 

Topics:

• gravitational lens theory

• simple lens models

• cosmological standard model

• lensing statistics

• galactic microlensing

• strong lensing by galaxies and galaxy clusters

• weak lensing

Textbooks:

• Gravitational Lensing: Strong, Weak and Micro
  by Peter Schneider, Christopher Kochanek, Joachim Wambsganß (2006).

• Gravitational Lenses
  by Peter Schneider, Jürgen Ehlers, Emilio E. Falco (1992). 

Papers for Presentations 

Each presentation group could have 1-3 students.

Possible papers for presentations are:

• Central Image and Black Hole (Winn et al. 2004)

• Measuring the mass of black hole hosts (Millon et al. 2023)

• Bullet Cluster and Dark Matter (Clowe et al. 2006)

• Supernova Refsdal (Kelly et al. 2015)

• Strongly Lensed SN Ia (Goobar et al. 2017)

• Planet Detection (Han et al. 2013)

• Highly Magnified Star at Redshift 6.2 (Welch et al. 2022)

• Microlensing events / magnified transients in a cluster arc (Fudamoto et al. 2024)

• Dusty Starburst Galaxies (Vieira et al. 2013)

If you would like to present a paper at the last lecture (Feb 6, 2026), please sign up here before January 9, 2026:
https://strawpoll.com/Q0Zp7GqqEgM

If your paper of choice has already been selected by someone else, then please either team up or choose another paper that has not yet been selected.