Cosmology

IUCAA - NCRA Graduate School

02 January - 23 February 2018

Things to remember:

• To contact me anytime, remember that my office number in NCRA is F236; the phone number is (020) 25719270. In case you want to contact me and do not find me in office, send me an email to tirth at ncra.tifr.res.in.
• Any information/updates/news about the course will be put up at the webpage http://www.ncra.tifr.res.in/~tirth/Teaching/Cosmology-2018/index.html. Make sure you check the webpage periodically.
• The course will consist of approximately 21 lectures (of 1 hour each) at the rate of 3 lectures per week. The lectures will be over by 15 February. In case we lose too many lectures because of holidays etc, we will hold extra lectures so that we can still finish by the same date.
• There will be three Take-home Assignments and one Final Examination which will be used for evaluating the course.
• The Take-home Assignments would be distributed to you during Lecture 5, Lecture 11 and Lecture 17, respectively. You will get about eight days to return them back.
• The final examination is tentatively scheduled on 21 February 15:00 - 17:00.
• You will be allowed to consult your class notes during the final examination.
• The evaluation procedure for the course is as follows:
  • If you get 40% or less in the final examination, you will fail the course irrespective of how well you have performed in the take-home assignments. In this case, your final score will be equal to the score of the final exam.
  • If you score more than 40% in the final examination and your average score in the take-home assignments is greater than that in the final examination, then your final average score will be computed giving 50% weightage to the final exam and 50% to the take-home assignments.
  • If you score more than 40% in the final examination and your average score in the take-home assignments is less than that in the final examination, then your final average score will be equal to the score of the final exam.

Reading List:

• T. Padmanabhan, Theoretical Astrophysics, Volume III: Galaxies and Cosmology, Cambridge University Press
• J. A. Peacock, Cosmological Physics, Cambridge University Press
• H. Mo, F. van den Bosch & S. White, Galaxy Formation and Evolution, Cambridge University Press