LECTURE NOTES

Program
00: Program

Fundamental concepts I
01: The zero-order Universe
02: Overview of the cosmological model

The Homogeneous Universe
03: The metric and its degrees of freedom
04: The cosmological fluid
05: The background evolution

Probes of Geometry
06: The astrophysical approach
07: The cosmological approach
08: Bayesian inference
09: Cosmological parameter estimation

Fundamental concepts II
10: Statistical cosmology
11: Introduction to structure formation

The Inhomogeneous Universe
12: Perturbations
13: The Einstein-Boltzmann equations
14: Newtonian approximation
15: Dark matter linear clustering
16: Dark matter non-linear clustering
17: Baryonic matter clustering

Probes of Structure
18: Cosmic microwave background
19: Galaxy clustering
20: Weak lensing

HOMEWORK

HW1: due 11 March
HW2: due 25 March
HW3: due 8 April
HW4: due 22 April
HW5: due 6 May


WORKSHOP

List of Topics  - select 3 topics from the list (ordered by your preference): due 9 May

Agenda - 20 minute presentations, without a written report, in four 2-hour sessions

Session 1: June 1st - Tuesday - 10h30
Session 2: June 1st - Tuesday - 14h00
Session 3: June 2nd - Wednesday - 10h30
Session 4: June 2nd - Wednesday - 14h00

Proceedings - all the presentations are here

Anexos