Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASPY 406 & CASPY 408), or consent of instructor. CASPY 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.

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