MIT Alumni Travel Program 2006 Trip to Chile:
Astrophysics Lectures by Prof. Edmund Bertschinger



Lecture 1: Cosmic Menu of Dark Matter and Dark Energy

Powerpoint file (1.6MB)
Hubble Deep Field movie (1.8MB mpeg, from http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/newsdesk/archive/releases/1996/01/video/a)
Wavelengths movie (25MB quicktime, from http://map.gsfc.nasa.gov/m_or/mr_media2.html)
Cosmic evolution movie (4.7MB quicktime, from http://map.gsfc.nasa.gov/m_or/mr_media2.html)
Galaxy formation movie (34MB windows avi, from http://www.aip.de/People/MSteinmetz/Movies.html)
Sound file 1 and Sound file 2



Lecture 2: What the Largest Structures in the Universe can tell us about the Smallest

Powerpoint file (1.3MB)    Dark Matter simulation (28MB windows avi)   



Lecture 3: The Search for Black Holes and Gravitational Waves: The Ultimate Tests of Einstein's Relativity

Powerpoint file (7.7MB)
Galactic center black hole movie (1.9MB quicktime, from http://amazing-space.stsci.edu/resources/explorations/blackholes/teacher/grabbag.html)
Black hole binary movie (1.0MB quicktime, from somewhere at NASA/GSFC)



Lecture 4: We Are Not Alone: Other Planets, Other Earths?

Powerpoint file (3.6MB)