Cosmology

IUCAA - NCRA Graduate School

02 January - 24 February 2017

• Instructors: Aseem Paranjape (IUCAA) and Tirthankar Roy Choudhury (NCRA-TIFR).
• Lectures: Monday 10:00-11:00, Wednesday 10:00-11:00 and Friday 10:00-11:00.
• Tentative lecture plan (will be updated as and when required).

Slides of the Lectures

• Overview
• Lecture 2
• Lecture 6
• Lecture 10
• Lecture 11
• Lecture 13

Assignments

• Assignment 1
• Assignment 2
• Assignment 3

Project Assignments

• Light element abundances from BBN (Contact: TRC)
• Relativistic linear perturbation theory (Contact: TRC)
• Spherical collapse for flat LCDM (Contact: AP)
• Halo abundance matching (Contact: AP)
• Estimating sound horizon from spatial clustering (Contact: AP / TRC)