PSI 2016/2017 - Cosmology (Kubiznak)

Why to study cosmology? Established facts about our Universe, Maximally symmetric spaces

FRW spacetime: Hubble's drag, Cosmological redshift

FRW spacetime: Horizons, Friedmann equations, Cosmic inventory

Current cosmological model, Thermodynamics in expanding universe

Adiabatic expansion, Decoupling and freeze out, Brief thermal history

Big Bang Nucleosynthesis: back of the envelope calculation

First look at CMB, Dark matter: observational evidence

What is DM? Dark Energy: Supernovae Ia observations

Inflation: 3 puzzles, two conditions, basic framework

Single field slow-roll inflation

CMB power spectrum: ensemble of universes, cosmic variance, E- and B-modes, BICEP 2

Inflation as a generator of perturbations, Quantization of time-dependent harmonic oscillator