Lecture:

Class are held Tuesdays 11:15 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. in Phil 19 SR

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Course Description:
The course provides an introduction to the fundamental concepts of modern cosmology. It will give an overview of both the theoretical framework and of the key observations and will enable you to appreciate recent discoveries by understanding their context.

Topics:

The Expanding Universe

Observations in Cosmology

Dark Matter and Dark Energy

Cosmological Constant and Quintessence

The Thermal History of the Big Bang

Primordial Nucleosynthesis

Inflationary Cosmology

Structure Formation in the Universe

Anistropies in the CMB

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lecture 1 (12. April 2005) (htm )
lecture 1 (12. April 2005) (pdf, 7 MB)
lecture 1 (12. April 2005) (pdf.gz, compressed with gzip, 5 MB)


lecture 2 (19. April 2005) (htm)
lecture 2 part 1 (19. April 2005) (pdf, 5 MB)
lecture 2 part 1 (19. April 2005) (pdf.gz, compressed with gzip, 3 MB) )

lecture 2 part 2 (19. April 2005) (pdf, 8 MB)
lecture 2 part 2 (19. April 2005) (pdf.gz, compressed with gzip, 5 MB)

lecture 3 (26. April 2005) (pdf, 6 MB)
lecture 3 (26. April 2005) (pdf.gz, compressed with gzip, 5 MB)

lecture 4 (03. Mai 2005) (htm)
lecture 4 (03. Mai 2005) (pdf, 3 MB)
lecture 4 (03. Mai 2005) (pdf.gz, compressed with gzip, 2 MB)

lecture 5 (10. Mai 2005) (pdf,< 1MB )

lecture 6 (17. Mai 2005) (pdf,< 1MB )
lecture 7 (24. Mai 2005) (pdf, 3.5 MB )
lecture 8 (31. Mai 2005) (pdf, 3.8 MB )

lecture 9 (07. June 2005) (pdf, 4 MB )
lecture 9 (07. June 2005) (pdf.gz compressed with zgip, 2.9 MB )

lecture 10 (14. June 2005) (pdf, 4.9 MB )
lecture 10 (14. June 2005) (pdf.gz compressed with zgip, 4.2 MB )

lecture 11 (21. June 2005) (pdf, 2.9 MB )

lecture 12 (29. June 2005) (pdf, 2.4 MB )

lecture 13 (5. July 2005) (pdf, 4.9 MB )
lecture 13 (5. July 2005) (pdf.gz compressed with zgip, 2.7 MB )
Introduction to the Acoustic Peaks and Polarization by Wayne Hu

lecture 14 a) (12. July 2005) (pdf, 2.8 MB )
lecture 14 b) (12. July 2005) (pdf, 3.9 MB )

Literature (textbooks and other materials):

"Intrduction to Cosmology" by Barbara Ryden (Addison Wesley, 2003)

"Structure Formation in the Universe" by T. Padmanabhan (Cambridge University Press, 1995)

"The Early Universe" by E.W. Kolb and M.S. Turner (Addison-Wesley, 2004)

"Cosmological Physics" by John A. Peacock (Cambridge University Press, 1998)

"Modern Cosmology" by Scott Dodelson (Academic Press, 2004)

"An Introduction to Cosmology" by Jayant Vishnu Narkilar (Cambridge University Press, 2002)

"Cosmological Inflation and Large-Scale Structure" by Andres R. Liddle and David H. Lyth (Cambridge University Press, 2000)

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Scripts and web-pages:

Cosmology home page ITP

Home page of Prof. C. Wetterich

Home page of Prof. M. Bartelmann

Home page of Prof. J. Peacock

High Redshift Supernova Search Home Page of the Supernova Cosmology Project

WMAP home page

Home page of Wayne Hu

Home page of Prof. M. Tegmark

Home page of Prof. Z. Haiman

Home page of Hubble Space Telescope

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Page still under construction!

Last change: 29.07.2005

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