ASTRO 6599 - Cosmology

(crosslisted) PHYS 6599

Fall. 3 credits. Student option grading.

Prerequisite: statistical physics, quantum mechanics, and electromagnetic theory courses.

D. Chernoff.

Intended to provide a detailed theoretical development of current ideas in cosmology. Topics include Big Bang cosmology and the universe’s matter content; a cosmological chronology of the very early universe, symmetry breaking, inflationary scenarios, nucleosynthesis, recombination, growth of irregularities, galaxy formation and clustering, dark energy; current and future cosmological observational approaches.