Prof. Dr. Luca Amendola
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Advanced Cosmology
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Summer Semester 2022
The course will cover advanced topics in Cosmology:Theory:
- Beyond the standard cosmological model
- Inflation
- models and phenomenology of dark energy
- models of modified gravity: extradimensional gravity, higher order gravity, massive gravity
- screening mechanisms
- non linear clustering (Press-Schechter, higher-order perturbation theory)
- Inhomogeneous models
Observations:
- supernovae
- galaxy clustering
- lensing
- cosmic microwave background
- Bayesian statistics
- New cosmological probes
NOTE: Course begins on April 22th, 2022
classes on Friday 11:15-13:00 Philosophenweg 12, kHS;
seminars on Friday 14:15-15:00, same place
Students will choose one topic from a list and prepare a presentation (powerpoint or blackboard) of 20-30 minutes on a date to be agreed; students can work in pairs if they wish.
Classes on Fridays:
22.04
29.04
06.05
13.05
20.05
27.05
03.06
10.06
17.06
24.07
01.07
08.07
15.07
22.07
Seminars on Fridays. Participation is compulsory. (The calendar is preliminary; it will be adjusted according to attendance)
29.04 (General presentation of seminar topics) Slides
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03.06
10.06
17.06
24.06
01.07
08.07
15.07
Participation to the seminars is mandatory. The exam will be oral only.
Topics
Slides of the general presentation of seminar topics
Suggested texts:
Lecture notes
Lecture notes of the Cosmology course
S. Dodelson, Modern Cosmology, Academic Press
L. Amendola and S. Tsujikawa, Dark Energy, Theory and Observations, Cambridge University Press, 2010