Welcome to the Cosmology Pages of

Thomas Buchert

Coordinates in Lyon:	Prof. Dr. Thomas Buchert Université Lyon 1, Centre de Recherche Astrophysique de Lyon 9 avenue Charles André F-69230 Saint-Genis-Laval, France
phones:	office (CRAL-Observatory) +33 (0)4 78 86 85 50 fax (CRAL-Observatory) +33 (0)4 78 86 83 86 office (CRAL-ENS) +33 (0)4 72 72 89 04 office (CRAL-IPNL) +33 (0)4 72 43 14 06 mobile +49 (0)171 58 026 89
e-mails:	buchert@obs.univ-lyon1.fr thomas.buchert@ens-lyon.fr

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Cosmology (global properties of world models)

A summary on the Averaging Problem in Newtonian Cosmology and General Relativity

A Letter on the Dark Energy problem and globally stationary cosmologies

A review on Dark Energy from Structure

Large-scale structure formation

A summer school lecture on The Lagrangian Perturbation Approach

Approximations beyond shell-crossing including a derivation of the `adhesion model'

Statistical morphology

An analysis of Fluctuations in the PSCz catalogue using Minkowski Functionals

A first investigation of Minkowski Functionals of SDSS galaxies

Dynamical morphology

Results on Geometrical scaling properties of spatial domains in relativistic cosmology

and the Dressing of cosmological parameters

Most-cited works:( >100 cites)

'A class of solutions in Newtonian cosmology and the pancake theory',
T. Buchert, Astron. Astrophys. 223, 9-24 (1989).

'Lagrangian theory of gravitational instability of Friedmann-Lemaitre cosmologies and the `Zel'dovich approximation',
T. Buchert, M.N.R.A.S. 254, 729-737 (1992).

'Robust morphological measures for large-scale structure in the Universe',
K.R. Mecke, T. Buchert and H. Wagner, Astron. Astrophys. 288, 697-704 (1994).

'Averaging inhomogeneous Newtonian cosmologies',
T. Buchert and J. Ehlers, Astron. Astrophys. 320, 1-7 (1997).

'On average properties of inhomogeneous fluids in general relativity: dust cosmologies',
T. Buchert, Gen. Rel. Grav. 32, 105-125 (2000).

'On average properties of inhomogeneous fluids in general relativity: perfect fluid cosmologies',
T. Buchert, Gen. Rel. Grav. 33, 1381-1405 (2001).

'Dark Energy from structure - a status report',
T. Buchert, Gen. Rel. Grav. 40, 467-527. (Invited review for special issue on Dark Energy) (2008).

Students and their research fields

Matthias Ostermann (Ph.D.) teach@muenchen-ist-toll.de

Minkowski Functionals of sky surveys

Lagrangian theory of structure formation in relativistic cosmology

Alexander Wiegand (Ph.D.) wiegand@physik.uni-bielefeld.de

Lagrangian perturbation theory in relativistic cosmology

Averaging problem in relativistic cosmology and Dark Energy

Former postdocs of the group

Dr. Dr.phil. Claus Beisbart Claus.Beisbart@udo.edu

Morphology and dynamics of clusters

Vector- and tensor-Minkowski valuations

Dr. Alvaro Dominguez dominguez@us.es

Kinetic theory of self-gravitating systems

Renormalization Group methods

Dr. Martin Kerscher kerscher@mathematik.uni-muenchen.de

Nonlinear statistics of sky surveys

Backreaction studies of cosmological models

Prof. Dr. Klaus Mecke klaus.mecke@physik.uni-erlangen.de

Morphology of fluids

Dr. Jens Schmalzing

Statistics and dynamics of cosmic structure

Minkowski functionals applied to LSS and CMB maps

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To obtain the software send e-mail to buchert@cosmunix.de

... to which I maintain contacts and collaborations:

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