The Boulder Cosmology Group meets 6PM to 8PM for reading discussions on the third Monday of the month. All meetings are free and open to the public.
Dates and locations are subject to change. Changes from the normal pattern are noted below.

See http://www.sackett.net/cosmologyAll.htm for a list of all meetings of the Cosmology Group since it began in 2003.

2024   Third Mondays: Book discussions are via Zoom until the library stays open until a least 8PM.

January 22, 2024 Book Discussion: Quantum Field Theory, As Simply as Possible by Anthony Zee. Chapters V.1 through V.4.
Link to the book: http://sackett.net/ZeeQFTSimply.pdf.
Note: This ^^^^ discussion is a week later than usual because of Martin Luther King Day.

February 19, 2024 Book Discussion: Quantum Field Theory, As Simply as Possible by Anthony Zee. Chapters V.5 to the end.
Link to the book: http://sackett.net/ZeeQFTSimply.pdf.

March 18, 2024 Book Discussion: Ghost Particle by Alan Chodos and James Riordan. Forward through Chapter 8.
Link to the book: http://sackett.net/ChodosGhostParticle.pdf.

April 15, 2024 Book Discussion: Ghost Particle: In Search of the Elusive and Mysterious Neutrino by Alan Chodos and James Riordan. Chapter 9 to end.
Link to the book: http://sackett.net/ChodosGhostParticle.pdf.

May 20, 2024 Book Discussion: What is Real?: The Unfinished Quest for the Meaning of Quantum Physics by Adam Becker. Through Chapter 6 (141 pages).
A review of Becker's book from Christopher Fuchs: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1809.05147. Note particularly the comments on the EPR experiment (and footnote 23's https://arxiv.org/pdf/1809.01751).

June 17, 2024 Book Discussion: What is Real?: The Unfinished Quest for the Meaning of Quantum Physics by Adam Becker. Chapter 7 to the end (155 pages).
Notes from Dave: http://www.sackett.net/BeckerNotesFromDave.pdf.

July 15, 2024 Book Discussion: What is Real? by Adam Becker. Dealing with unresolved questions from our discussions.
Questions from the group: http://www.sackett.net/BeckerRealQuestions.pdf.

August 19, 2024 Book Discussion: The Genius of Science: A Portrait Gallery by Abraham Pais.

September 16, 2024 Book Discussion continued: The Genius of Science: A Portrait Gallery by Abraham Pais.

October 21, 2024 Book Discussion: Things that go Bump in the Universe by C. Renée James. Prologue through Chapter 11.
For Chapter 11: How fast is the Universe expanding?

November 18, 2024 Book Discussion: Things that go Bump in the Universe by C. Renée James. Chapter 12 through Epilogue.
For Chapter 14: A History of Gamma Ray Bursts.

December 16, 2024 Book Discussion: The Biggest Ideas in the Universe: Quanta and Fields by Sean Carroll. Introduction through Chapter 4.
Notes: http://www.sackett.net/QuantaFieldsNotes.pdf.

January 20, 2025 Book Discussion: The Biggest Ideas in the Universe: Quanta and Fields by Sean Carroll. Chapter 5 through Chapter 8.

February 17, 2025 Book Discussion: The Biggest Ideas in the Universe: Quanta and Fields by Sean Carroll. Chapter 9 through Chapter 12.

March 17, 2025 Book Discussion: Condensed Matter Physics: A Very Short Introduction by Ross H. McKenzie (176 pages).

April 21, 2025 Book Discussion: Escape from Shadow Pysics by Adam Kay (Parts I through V).

May 19, 2025 Book Discussion: Escape from Shadow Pysics by Adam Kay (Parts VI through XI).

June 16, 2025 Book Discussion: Escape from Shadow Pysics by Adam Kay (Parts XII through XV).

July 21, 2025 Book Discussion: Quantum Computing for Everyone by Chris Bernhardt (Introduction through "Circuits").

August 18, 2025 Book Discussion: Quantum Computing for Everyone by Chris Bernhardt ("NAND is a Universal Gate" to end).

For more information, e-mail Bill (bill4gb AT gmail DOT com) or call him at 3.449.4136.

This is http://www.sackett.net/cosmology.htm, last updated March 17, 2025.