The CMB and Cosmology
Astro 448
Syllabus
A very rough roadmap of the course.
Week 1
- A General Intro to CMB Anisotropies
Week 2
- Heuristic Intro to Acoustic Peaks
- Tight coupling approximation
Week 3
- Driving effects / CMB & Dark matter
- Damping effects
Week 4
- Polarization Description
- Acoustic Polarization
Week 5
- Formal linear perturbation theory
Week 6
- Inflation, Slow Roll and Tensors
Week 7
- Formal CMB theory
- Mechanics of CMBFast
Week 8
- Gravitational Secondaries: ISW & Lensing
Week 9
- Data pipeline, challenges.
Week 10
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