Block Course: Testing Fundamental Physics with Cosmology
17th July 2018
Room: nHS, Philosophenweg 12
This is a one-day block course on advanced topics in cosmology for master and PhD students: dark energy, modified gravity, neutrino cosmology, gravitational waves, inflation, CMB, observations, etc.
Knowledge of General Relativity and basic Cosmology is required.
No registration is needed to attend.
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 do so.
Preliminary schedule:
11:00 - 12:30: Catarina Cosme - Scalar field dark matter with spontaneous symmetry breaking and the 3.5 keV line (Cosmology Seminar - Phil 16 Seminar Room)
12:30 - 14:00: Lunch break
14:00 - 14:45: If light waves are stretched by gravitational waves, how can we use light as a ruler to detect gravitational waves? - Luca Amendola
14:50 - 15:35: The ADM formalism - Manuel Wittner
15:40 - 16:10 Coffee break
16:15 - 17:00: Cosmology for Astronomers - Ana Marta Pinho
17:05 - 17:50: Hints of dynamical dark energy in the Universe - Adrià Gómez-Valent
18:00: Barbecue