waynehu

Professor, Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics
University of Chicago

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

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

Cosmic Microwave Background

Astro 448
MF 1:30-2:50 ERC 583

This course will have be composed of 2 parts. The first half will be lecture based with the goal of estabilishing a common denominator. The second half will be more research based.

Requirement for this course is a final project to be presented in class. Prerequisite for the course is graduate level cosmology and general relativity.

Lecture Notes

Final Projects

CMB Instrument Primer: Josh Sobrin
DES Galaxy CLusters x Planck SZ Maps: Kuang Wei
Early Universe Models Post Planck: William Wolf
A Brief Introduction to CAMB and CosmoMC: Georgios Zacharegkas
CMB Foreground and Separation Methods: Yuxi Zhao