waynehu

Professor, Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics
University of Chicago

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CMB Introduction '96 Intermediate '01 Polarization Intro '01 Cosmic Symphony '04 Polarization Primer '97 Review '02 Power Animations Lensing Power Prehistory Legacy Material '96 PhD Thesis '95 Baryon Acoustic Oscillations Cosmic Shear Clusters

Transfer Function WMAP Likelihood Reionization PPF for CAMB Halo Mass Conversion Cluster Abundance

Intro to Cosmology [243] Cosmology I [legacy 321] Cosmology II [321] Current Topics [282] Galaxies and Universe [242] Radiative Processes [305] Research Preparation [307] GR Perturbation Theory [408] CMB [448] Cosmic Acceleration [449]

University of Chicago Astronomy Department KICP Thunch astro-ph.CO ADS InSpire

Perturbation Theory and Inflation

Astro 408
WF 1:30-2:50 AAC 107

Prerequisites: Graduate cosmology (Ast 321), graduate general relativity

Requirements: Final project presented in class

Notes

Notes will be made available after the lectures.

Covariant Relativistic Perturbation Theory
Inflationary Perturbations
Particle Distributions