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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