Splash Biography
JAMES SULLIVAN, ESP Teacher
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Major: Astrophysics College/Employer: UC Berkeley Year of Graduation: G |
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Brief Biographical Sketch:
Not Available. Past Classes(Clicking a class title will bring you to the course's section of the corresponding course catalog)S1207: Pre-prehistory: from the Big Bang to today's universe in Splash Spring 2024 (Apr. 21, 2024)
What happened right after the beginning of it all?
How did the atoms in your body like H and He condense out of the primordial soup?
Why is it impossible for the Milky Way to exist without dark matter?
We'll touch on all these questions (and more!) - you will think quantitatively about our cosmic origins!
S1047: Pre-prehistory: from the Big Bang to today's universe in Splash Spring 2023 (Apr. 23, 2023)
What happened right after the beginning of it all?
How did the atoms in your body like H and He condense out of the primordial soup?
Why is it impossible for the Milky Way to exist without dark matter?
We'll touch on all these questions (and more!) - you will think quantitatively about our cosmic origins!
S1022: Pre-prehistory: from the Big Bang to the universe as we know it in Splash Fall 2022 (Oct. 29, 2022)
What happened right after the beginning of it all?
How did atoms as we know them like H and He condense out of the primordial soup?
What is the role of dark matter in all this?
We'll touch on all these questions (and more!) - helping you to get a feel for how to think quantitatively about our cosmic origins!
S840: The Cosmic Microwave Background - Exploring the Afterglow of the Big Bang in Splash Fall 2021 (Oct. 30, 2021)
What is the universe made out of? How did its earliest moments unfold? The best answers we have to these questions are provided by an all-sky afterimage of the early universe - the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB). In this class, we'll dip a toe into the deep pool of knowledge provided by the CMB. First, we'll introduce the CMB signal and how we observe it. Then we'll begin to unpack how fundamental physics drive the signal in the early universe. Finally, we'll connect back to modern observations cosmologists are involved with today.
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