Advanced CosmologySummer Semester 2025The course will cover advanced topics in Cosmology:Theory: - Beyond the standard cosmological model - Inflation - models and phenomenology of dark energy - models of modified gravity: conformal coupling, higher order gravity, massive gravity - screening mechanisms - perturbation theory for scalar fields - non linear clustering (Press-Schechter, higher-order perturbation theory) Observations: - supernovae - galaxy clusters - radio and 21cm backgrounds - lensing - cosmic microwave background - Bayesian statistics - New cosmological probes - machine learning in cosmology Preliminary info to be confirmed. Course begins on April 25th, 2025 classes on Friday 11:15-13:00 Philosophenweg 12, kHS; seminars on Friday 14:15-16:00, same place, dates to be announced after the first lecture Students will choose a 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 CREDITS: 4 Participation to the seminars is mandatory. The exam will be oral only. Seminar 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
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