Cosmology

This page contains material supporting the UvA Masters Course Cosmology.

Lecture notes:

• Preface
• Chapter 1: Geometry and Dynamics
• Chapter 2: Inflation
• Chapter 3: Thermal History
• Chapter 4: Cosmological Perturbation Theory
• Chapter 5: Structure Formation
• Chapter 6: Quantum Initial Conditions
• Outlook
• Appendix A: Elements of General Relativity

Problem sets:

• Problem Set 1
• Problem Set 2
• Problem Set 3

Lecture scripts:

• Chapter 1
• Chapter 2
• Chapter 3
• Chapter 4
• Chapter 5
• Chapter 6

Exam (Dec. 22)

Contacts:

• Prof. Daniel Baumann: dbaumann@uva.nl
• Mr. Thomas Edwards: T.D.P.Edwards@uva.nl
• Mr. Horng Sheng Chia: H.S.Chia@uva.nl

The course material is also being used by

• Paolo Creminelli (ICTP, Trieste)
• Martin Schmaltz (Boston University)
• Yanou Cui (Riverside University)
• James Fergusson (Cambridge University)
• Mustafa Amin (Rice University)
• Yi Wang (Hong Kong University)
• Jochen Weller (Munich University)
• Renee Hlozek (Toronto University)
• Michael Ratz (UC Irvine)
• Howard Haber (UC Santa Cruz)
• Anthony Lewis (Sussex)
• Pedro Ferreira (Oxford)
• Christoph Weniger (Amsterdam)
• Scott Watson (Syracuse University)
• Reinhard Schlickeiser (Bochum University)
• Michael Strauss (Princeton University)
• Nima Khosravi (Shahid Beheshti University)
• Shahram Khosravi (Kharazmi University)
• Peter Adshead (University of Illinois)
• Lian Tao Wang (University of Chicago)
• Blake Sherwin (Cambridge University)
• Joe Hennawi (UC Santa Barbara)
• Joel Meyers (Southern Methodist University)
• Jon Gudmundsson (Stockholm University)
• Swagat Saurav Mishra (Pune University)
• Alexander Westphal (DESY, Hamburg University)
• Eric Kuflik (The Hebrew University)
• Celia Escamilla-Rivera (UNAM, Mexico)
• Fabrizio Nesti (L’Aquila University)
• Jo Dunkley (Princeton University)
• Sebastien Renaux-Petel (IAP, Paris)
• Camille Bonvin (Geneva)