Block course: Testing fundamental physics with Cosmology
26th July 2017
Room: 105, Philosophenweg 12
Introduction to selected topics in cosmology aimed for Master and PhD students.
Note: NO CREDITS; interested students can pick up a topic and deliver a 30 minutes seminar during the next semester for 2 credits.
Please send an email to pinho@thphys.uni-heidelberg.de in case you would like to participate.
Preliminary schedule:
09:15 - 10:00: Statistics in Cosmology (Kevin Wolz & Ana Marta Pinho)
10:05 - 10:50: Testing General Relativity and Modified Gravity with Galaxy Rotation Curves (Aleff Almeida)
10:55 - 11:10: Coffee break
11:15 - 12:00: Early Dark Energy models (Viviana Niro)
12:05 - 12:50: Spherical Cow(llapse) (Caroline Heneka)
12:55 - 13:45: Lunch break
13:50 - 14:35: Cosmology with Clusters of Galaxies (Luca Amendola)
14:40 - 15:25: CDM dies hard (Andrea Maccio)
15:30 - 15:45: Coffee break
15:50 - 16:35: An Introduction to Cosmological Baryogenesis (Dario Bettoni)
16:40 - 17:25: Fishing structure formation (Santiago Casas)
17:30: ITP Barbecue Summerparty