Programme

- COSMOLOGICAL PRINCIPLE AND ROBERTSON-WALKER METRIC
- FRIEDMANN EQUATIONS
- THE STANDARD COSMOLOGICAL MODEL
- REDSHIFT, COSMOLOGICAL DISTANCES AND COSMOLOGICAL HORIZONS
- COSMOLOGICAL PARAMETERS AND THEIR MEASUREMENT
- CLASSICAL COSMOLOGIAL TESTS: HUBBLE TEST. ANGULAR DIAMETER TEST. COUNTS
- COSMOLOGICAL CONSTANT
- COSMIC FLUIDS AND THEIR EQUATION OF STATE
- THERMAL HISTORY OF THE UNIVERSE: DECOUPLING, RECOMBINATION
- MATTER-ANTIMATTER ASYMMETRY
- BEYOND STANDARD MODEL: HORIZON AND FLATNESS PARADOXES, INTRODUCTION TO COSMIC INFLATION
- DARK MATTER
- BRIEF HISTORY OF THE UNIVERSE
- COSMOLOGICAL NUCLEOSYNTHESIS
- MATTER DOMINATED ERA. REIONIZATION.
- FCOSMIC MICROWAVE BACKGROUND
- JEANS THEORY OF GRAVITATIONAL INSTABILITY
- EVOLUTION OF COSMIC STRUCTURES
- SPECTRUM OF DENSITY PERTURBATIONS. LINEAR AND NON-LINEAR EVOLUTION OF THE COSMIC DENSITY FIELD
- SPHERICAL COLLAPSE AND PRESS & SCHECHTER THEORY
- INTRODUCTION TO NUMERICAL APPROACHES TO STRUCTURE FORMATION: N-BODY SIMULTAIONS
- KEY PROCESSES IN GALAXY FORMATION
- INTRODUCTION TO OPEN PROBLEMS IN STRUCTURE FORMATION

Core Documentation

Coles P., Lucchin F. Cosmology [Wiley 2000]
Peebles P.J.E. 1993. Principles of Physical Cosmology [Princeton Series in Physics 1993]

Type of delivery of the course

frontal teaching lessons

Type of evaluation

The exam takes place in oral form The questions cover all the topics of the course.

Programme

- COSMOLOGICAL PRINCIPLE AND ROBERTSON-WALKER METRIC
- FRIEDMANN EQUATIONS
- THE STANDARD COSMOLOGICAL MODEL
- REDSHIFT, COSMOLOGICAL DISTANCES AND COSMOLOGICAL HORIZONS
- COSMOLOGICAL PARAMETERS AND THEIR MEASUREMENT
- CLASSICAL COSMOLOGIAL TESTS: HUBBLE TEST. ANGULAR DIAMETER TEST. COUNTS
- COSMOLOGICAL CONSTANT
- COSMIC FLUIDS AND THEIR EQUATION OF STATE
- THERMAL HISTORY OF THE UNIVERSE: DECOUPLING, RECOMBINATION
- MATTER-ANTIMATTER ASYMMETRY
- BEYOND STANDARD MODEL: HORIZON AND FLATNESS PARADOXES, INTRODUCTION TO COSMIC INFLATION
- DARK MATTER
- BRIEF HISTORY OF THE UNIVERSE
- COSMOLOGICAL NUCLEOSYNTHESIS
- MATTER DOMINATED ERA. REIONIZATION.
- FCOSMIC MICROWAVE BACKGROUND
- JEANS THEORY OF GRAVITATIONAL INSTABILITY
- EVOLUTION OF COSMIC STRUCTURES
- SPECTRUM OF DENSITY PERTURBATIONS. LINEAR AND NON-LINEAR EVOLUTION OF THE COSMIC DENSITY FIELD
- SPHERICAL COLLAPSE AND PRESS & SCHECHTER THEORY
- INTRODUCTION TO NUMERICAL APPROACHES TO STRUCTURE FORMATION: N-BODY SIMULTAIONS
- KEY PROCESSES IN GALAXY FORMATION
- INTRODUCTION TO OPEN PROBLEMS IN STRUCTURE FORMATION

Core Documentation

Coles P., Lucchin F. Cosmology [Wiley 2000]
Peebles P.J.E. 1993. Principles of Physical Cosmology [Princeton Series in Physics 1993]

Type of delivery of the course

frontal teaching lessons

Type of evaluation

The exam takes place in oral form The questions cover all the topics of the course.

Programme

- COSMOLOGICAL PRINCIPLE AND ROBERTSON-WALKER METRIC
- FRIEDMANN EQUATIONS
- THE STANDARD COSMOLOGICAL MODEL
- REDSHIFT, COSMOLOGICAL DISTANCES AND COSMOLOGICAL HORIZONS
- COSMOLOGICAL PARAMETERS AND THEIR MEASUREMENT
- CLASSICAL COSMOLOGIAL TESTS: HUBBLE TEST. ANGULAR DIAMETER TEST. COUNTS
- COSMOLOGICAL CONSTANT
- COSMIC FLUIDS AND THEIR EQUATION OF STATE
- THERMAL HISTORY OF THE UNIVERSE: DECOUPLING, RECOMBINATION
- MATTER-ANTIMATTER ASYMMETRY
- BEYOND STANDARD MODEL: HORIZON AND FLATNESS PARADOXES, INTRODUCTION TO COSMIC INFLATION
- DARK MATTER
- BRIEF HISTORY OF THE UNIVERSE
- COSMOLOGICAL NUCLEOSYNTHESIS
- MATTER DOMINATED ERA. REIONIZATION.
- FCOSMIC MICROWAVE BACKGROUND
- JEANS THEORY OF GRAVITATIONAL INSTABILITY
- EVOLUTION OF COSMIC STRUCTURES
- SPECTRUM OF DENSITY PERTURBATIONS. LINEAR AND NON-LINEAR EVOLUTION OF THE COSMIC DENSITY FIELD
- SPHERICAL COLLAPSE AND PRESS & SCHECHTER THEORY
- INTRODUCTION TO NUMERICAL APPROACHES TO STRUCTURE FORMATION: N-BODY SIMULTAIONS
- KEY PROCESSES IN GALAXY FORMATION
- INTRODUCTION TO OPEN PROBLEMS IN STRUCTURE FORMATION

Core Documentation

Coles P., Lucchin F. Cosmology [Wiley 2000]
Peebles P.J.E. 1993. Principles of Physical Cosmology [Princeton Series in Physics 1993]

Type of delivery of the course

frontal teaching lessons

Type of evaluation

The exam takes place in oral form The questions cover all the topics of the course.

Programme

- COSMOLOGICAL PRINCIPLE AND ROBERTSON-WALKER METRIC
- FRIEDMANN EQUATIONS
- THE STANDARD COSMOLOGICAL MODEL
- REDSHIFT, COSMOLOGICAL DISTANCES AND COSMOLOGICAL HORIZONS
- COSMOLOGICAL PARAMETERS AND THEIR MEASUREMENT
- CLASSICAL COSMOLOGIAL TESTS: HUBBLE TEST. ANGULAR DIAMETER TEST. COUNTS
- COSMOLOGICAL CONSTANT
- COSMIC FLUIDS AND THEIR EQUATION OF STATE
- THERMAL HISTORY OF THE UNIVERSE: DECOUPLING, RECOMBINATION
- MATTER-ANTIMATTER ASYMMETRY
- BEYOND STANDARD MODEL: HORIZON AND FLATNESS PARADOXES, INTRODUCTION TO COSMIC INFLATION
- DARK MATTER
- BRIEF HISTORY OF THE UNIVERSE
- COSMOLOGICAL NUCLEOSYNTHESIS
- MATTER DOMINATED ERA. REIONIZATION.
- FCOSMIC MICROWAVE BACKGROUND
- JEANS THEORY OF GRAVITATIONAL INSTABILITY
- EVOLUTION OF COSMIC STRUCTURES
- SPECTRUM OF DENSITY PERTURBATIONS. LINEAR AND NON-LINEAR EVOLUTION OF THE COSMIC DENSITY FIELD
- SPHERICAL COLLAPSE AND PRESS & SCHECHTER THEORY
- INTRODUCTION TO NUMERICAL APPROACHES TO STRUCTURE FORMATION: N-BODY SIMULTAIONS
- KEY PROCESSES IN GALAXY FORMATION
- INTRODUCTION TO OPEN PROBLEMS IN STRUCTURE FORMATION

Core Documentation

Coles P., Lucchin F. Cosmology [Wiley 2000]
Peebles P.J.E. 1993. Principles of Physical Cosmology [Princeton Series in Physics 1993]

Type of delivery of the course

frontal teaching lessons

Type of evaluation

The exam takes place in oral form The questions cover all the topics of the course.