Lectures


  • Lecture 1.      Monday, Sept. 25. Intro. Cosmology as a science. [slides]

  • Lecture 2.      Wednesday, Sept. 27. Development of Scientific Cosmology from Greeks to Newton. [slides]

  • Lecture 3.      Monday, October 2. How big is the sky? Debate about scale of the Galaxy and the Universe. [slides]

  • Lecture 4.      Wednesday, October 4. Albert Einstein and the Geometry of Space and Time [slides]

  • Lecture 5.      Monday, October 9. Relativity and Gravity [slides]

  • Lecture 6.      Wednesday, October 11. Modeling the Universe [slides]

  • Lecture 7.      Monday, October 16. Discovery of the Expanding Universe [slides]

  • Lecture 8.      Wednesday, October 18. Discovery of the Expanding Universe (cont'd) [slides]

  • Lecture 9.      Monday, October 23. Modeling the Universe: cosmological parameters [slides]

  • Lecture 10.      Wednesday, October 25. Testing the models: Cosmic Microwave Background [slides]

  • Lecture 11.      Monday, October 30. Testing the models: Big Bang Nucleosynthesis [slides]

  • Lecture 12.      Wednesday, November 1. CMB experiments at Chicago. + tour of the high-bay and the SPT detector and cryostat. [slides]

  • Lecture 13.      Monday, November 6. The early Universe, fundamental forces, and the origin of matter [slides]

  • Lecture 14.      Wednesday, November 8. Cosmic inflation and the origin of structures in the Universe. [slides]

  • Lecture 15.      Monday, November 13. Dark and exotic matter. [slides]

  • Lecture 16.      Wednesday, November 15. Dark matter and formation of structures in the universe [slides]

  • Lecture 17.      Monday, November 20. Tour of Juan Collar's Dark Matter detection lab

  • Lecture 18.      Wednesday, November 22. Hierarchical formation of galaxies [slides]

  • Lecture 19.      Monday, November 27. Accelerating Universe and Dark Energy [slides]


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