By the end of the course you should have prepared an overview of one of the topics listed below in the form of a short essay (about 4 pages). Each student will hold a 'lecture' on the topic of his/her choice in front of the other students.

The lecture should be not longer than 10-15 min. (at most 10 transparencies) and should focus on the important key issues of what you wrote in the essay .

If you want to prepare and present the lecture in electronic form and do not have a laptop, you can borrow mine the day of the presentation. Just tell me in advance which format you will use (pdf, Powerpoint and Open Office will pose no problems and are preferred). Bring your lecture in a CD, a USB memory stick, or send it to me by email the day before.

Note that the points of the course ARE NOT divided into home exercises and final project. You get the grade for the course based on both your work with the problem sets and the final poject.

1. The solar neutrino problem: History and solution. M. Bohm
2. The discovery of neutrino oscillations. LNSD, SK, SNO.
3. Neutrino detectors: principle of operation (SK, SNO, miniBOONE, Gallex, Borexino).
4. Measuring directly the neutrino mass: theory and current experiments. M. Beckmann
5. Neutrino telescopes: Physics and principle of operation (AMANDA/ICECUBE, ANTARES, NESTOR). T. Traub
6. Acoustic detection of ultra-high energy neutrinos: principles and detectors.
7. Radio detection of ultra-high energy neutrinos: principles and detectors.
8. Neutrinos from the Big Bang: production and implications for the evolution of the Universe. G. Wouda
9. Neutrinos from dark matter candidates. A. Homeier
10. Neutrinos from cosmic sources: AGN, GRBs, microquasars. T. Ehrlich
11. Neutrinoless double beta decay: importance and detectors.
12. CERN and Fermilab accelerator neutrino programmes. H. Kellock
13. Neutrinos from nuclear reactors.
14. Neutrinos from Supernovae. The SN1987a "revolution".
15. The Standard Solar Model: how the Sun shines in neutrinos.