Standard model of cosmology: Friedmann-Robertson-Walker metric, dynamics, thermal history of the universe, nucleosynthesis, dark matter, dark energy, inflationary universe, structure formation.
Organizational meeting: Monday March 4th, 2019, 15:15 -16:00
The lectures start on March 11th, 2019 and will end on June 17th, 2019. It takes place from 15:15-16:45.
S. Weinberg: “Cosmology”
B. Ryden: "Introduction to Cosmology"
E. W. Kolb and M. S. Turner: “The early universe”
J. E. Peacock: “Cosmological physics”
P. J. E. Peebles: “Principles of Physical Cosmology”
The course will be mostly self-contained. However, for some parts of the course basic knowledge of general relativity, quantum field theory and thermodynamics will be helpful but is not necessary.
