LSK1027 (Business Building); Saturdays 09:30-12:20, Spring Term, 2015
Lecture notes: Chapter 1, Chapter 2, Chapter 3, Chapter 4, Chapter 5
Code:
- Curvature of FRW metric: Mathematica, Python
- Calculation of inflation perturbations: resources/examples of MathGR
- Instructions of how to run CLASS code and plot result
References:
- Baumann’s lecture notes, Lectures 1 and 2
- Dodelson, Modern Cosmology, up to the CMB part
- Wang, Inflation, Cosmic Perturbations and Non-Gaussianities, for other topics
Syllabus:
- Geometry and Dynamics
- Inflation
- Thermal History
- Evolution of Perturbations
- Cosmic Microwave Background