The Boulder Cosmology Group meets 6PM to 8PM for DVD lectures on the Second and Fourth Wednesdays of the month and reading discussions on Third Mondays at the Main Library. All meetings are free and open to the public. (Monday discussions are usually in the second-floor Flatirons Room and Wednesday lectures in the first-floor Boulder Creek Room). Dates and locations are subject to change. Changes from the normal pattern are noted below.
Note: While the library closes early because of the pandemic, keep up with the Wednesday Lectures on your own at home, and conference with Zoom for the Monday book discussions. We missed quite a few lectures in 2020. If you didn't keep up then you could still watch them on Kanopy. The links are in the 2020 Schedule.

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 only and 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.

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 August 27, 2024.