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>PDF Version Lectures
Staff.
Lecturer:
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Prof. Scott Burles |
Teaching Assistant:
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Mr. Yi Mao
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Office Hours
Textbook
Modern Cosmology , Scott Dodelson.
Assignments
| Problem Sets (5 or 6): |
30% |
| Projects (2) : |
40% |
| Final Presentation: |
30% |
Syllabus
Weeks 1 & 2: Overview, History and General Relativity review
Weeks 3 & 4: Cosmological models, distances and thermodynamics
Weeks 5 - 7: Boltzmann Equation and Big Bang Nucelosynthesis
Week 8: Spring Break
Weeks 9 & 10: Inhomogeneous Cosmology
Weeks 11-14: Modern Observations
Weeks 15-16: Presentations
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