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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
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  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
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ADS
InSpire
Introduction
Temperature Maps
Earth
Monopole
Dipole
COBE
Power
Precision
Features
Thermal History
Expansion
Plasma
Glue
Pressure
Thermal
Acoustic Oscillations
Gravity
Plane Waves
Harmonics
Extrema
Angular Peaks
Spatial/Angular
Oscillation
Freeze Frame
Streaming
Soundscape
First Peak
Data
Curvature
Flatness
Dark Energy
Summary
Second Peak
Data
Inertia
Baryonmeter
Power
Dark Baryons
Summary
Higher Peaks
Driving Force
Power
Summary
Damping Tail
Diffusion
Ruler
Consistency
Summary
Parameter Estimation
Parameters
Degeneracy
Polarization
What and Why
Scattering
Projection
Power
Quadrupoles
B-modes
Gravity Waves
Summary
So Far...
Key Concepts
First peak
shows the universe is close to
spatially flat