Dr Roberto Trotta

Lecturer in Astrophysics

r.trotta@ null imperial.ac.uk

Phone: +44 (0)20 7594 7793
Fax: +44 (0)20 759 47772
Room 1009, Level 10
Imperial College London, Astrophysics, Blackett Laboratory, Prince Consort Road, London SW7 2AZ, UK

Undergraduate teaching

2011-2012:

Lecturer of the 2nd year course Statistics of measurement. You can access the course materials on Blackboard by logging in here. 
Office hours: Mondays, 4pm-5pm, Blackett Level 10, Room 1009.

2nd year undergraduate tutor

Year in Europe supervision 

I am offering BSc essays and BSc theory projects

  • 2010-2011: Lecturer of the 2nd year course Statistics of measurement. 
  • 2009-2010: Lecturer of the 2nd year course Statistics of measurement. 
  • 2009-2010: Computer lab demonstrator.
  • Guest lecturer in the Astrophysics course on Nov 16th 2009, entitled Astrophysical dark matter probes. Imperial College London. 

Postgradute teaching

  • Advanced method in statistical data analysis, elite PhD course in Copenhagen, Nov 14-18th 2011. Slides, problems and handout available here. 
  • Introduction to cosmology, postgraduate lecture for the High Energy Physics students, Imperial, Nov 2010.
  • Advanced statistical methods, postgraduate lectures for PhD students, Imperial Astrophysics, Sept 2010.
  • Statistical methods for cosmology, 1st Jayme Tiomno School of Cosmology, Rio de Janeiro, July 2010.
  • Probability theory, statistics and data analysis. Postgraduate lectures series, Imperial/UCL, Jan 2009. 
  • The cosmic microwave background and its statistical interpretation. A series of 3 invited lectures given at Physics Department of Wuerzburg University (Germany) in Dec 2008. 
  • Introduction to modern cosmology. (Lecture 1) (Lecture 2) Postgraduate lectures series, Imperial/UCL, Oct 2008. 
  •  Advanced Statistical tools for cosmology. (Lecture 1) (Lecture 2) Invited lectures given at the Taller des altas energias, Madrid, UAM, Sept 2008 and in Valencia in May 2009.

Past experience

  • 2009: 2nd year tutor and lecture course associate for the Sun, Stars and Planets course. Guest lecture in the Astrophysics course on Nov 14th 2008, entitled Dark Matter: present evidence and future searches. Imperial College London. 
  • 2008: Lecturer at the Physics Undergraduate Conference, Oxford University. 
  • 2006 to 2008: Undergraduate tutor in astrophysics and quantum mechanics. St Anne's College, Oxford. 
  • 2005 to 2006: Tutor for the Astrophysics Masters course. Oxford University. 
  • Trinity 2005: Undergraduate tutorials in physics and mathematics. Oxford University. 
  • 2001 to 2003: Undergraduate tutor in classical mechanics and co-examiner. University of Geneva, Switzerland. 
  • 1998 to 2001: Undergraduate tutor in algebra, linear algebra and mathematics. ETH Zurich, Switzerland.