Cosmological Physics

CAS PY 555

Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASPY406 & CASPY408) , or consent of instructor. CAS PY 410 is recommended but not required . - Early universe cosmology: inflation, thermodynamics in an expanding universe with radiation, matter, vacuum energy. Growth of density perturbations, cosmic microwave background, large scale structure. The cosmological standard model and open questions, dark matter, dark energy, neutrinos.