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
- 00_Program.pdf
- 01_Overview_1.pdf
- 02_Overview_2.pdf
- 03_HomogeneousUniverse_1.pdf
- Homework_1.pdf
- 04_HomogeneousUniverse_2.pdf
- 05_HomogeneousUniverse_3.pdf
- Homework_2.pdf
- 06_GeometryProbes_1.pdf
- 07_GeometryProbes_2.pdf
- 08_GeometryProbes_3.pdf
- 09_GeometryProbes_4.pdf
- Homework_3.pdf
- 10_Overview_3.pdf
- 11_Overview_4.pdf
- Homework_4.pdf
- 12_InhomogeneousUniverse_1.pdf
- 13_InhomogeneousUniverse_2.pdf
- 14_InhomogeneousUniverse_3.pdf
- 15_InhomogeneousUniverse_4.pdf
- 16_InhomogeneousUniverse_5.pdf
- 17_InhomogeneousUniverse_6.pdf
- Homework_5.pdf
- 18_StructureProbes_1.pdf
- 19_StructureProbes_2.pdf
- 20_StructureProbes_3.pdf
- KlypinNbody.pdf
- SaitoRSD.pdf
- List_of_topics.pdf
- Proceedings_CosmologiaFisica.pdf