Prof. Dr. Luca Amendola
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Winter Semester 2022/23
The course is an introduction to Cosmology. Suggested prerequisites: General Relativity (although it is not strictly necessary).IMPORTANT! Students need to register here by October 15th.
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Program
- Review of General Relativity
- Observing the Universe
- Thermal history
- Evolution of perturbations
- Inflation
- Cosmic Microwave Background
- Gravitational Lensing
- Large scale structure
- Dark matter, dark energy
NOTE: Course begins on October 18th, 2022, 9:15-11:00 am. Then every Tuesday and Thursday, 9:15-11:00am.
Last lecture in presence: Feb. 02. In the following week (Feb 6-10) I am available to answer questions via email.
Lectures are recorded (not streamed). Contact the tutor or me if you do not know how to retrieve the recordings. First exam on 23.02.2023, 2pm, INF 227 HS1. Second exam 24.04.2023 9am Philosophenweg 12 gHS.
Exam rules: you can bring an A4 sheet with all the handwritten formulas you can fit on both sides. You can bring a handpocket calculator without wifi or any other connection. You cannot bring in the exam room any cellphones, laptops, tablets or any other device that can connect to the internet or make calls. The exam will consist of exercises and/or theory questions. Please bring a ID document. Persons with special needs should contact us as soon as possible to make arrangements.
Sections of lecture notes effectively covered in the course: chapters 1 to 10, plus chapters 12, 13, 18, except sections 5.3, 5.4, 9.6, 9.7, 12.7, 12.8. CMB was covered in a special lecture-seminar, which is also part of the program
Exercise classes start from the week after the beginning of the course. You can work alone or in pairs. The exercises will be graded and you have to pass a minimum threshold to be admitted to the final exam. The link to the exercise sheets has been distributed at the beginning of the course, contact the tutor or me if you do not know how to retrieve them.
CREDITS: 8
Suggested texts:
Lecture notes.
Slides of the initial lecture.
Additional slides: thermal processes 1.
Additional slides: thermal processes 2
Additional slides: distances and dark energy.
S. Dodelson, Modern Cosmology, Academic Press
Very clear, with all the important derivations detailed out step-by-step.
L. Amendola and S. Tsujikawa, Dark Energy. Theory and Observations., Cambridge University Press
This book contains lots of additional material on more advanced topics related to dark energy.
Other texts are suggested in the lecture notes
