Introductions
Appetizer/Previews
The Golden Age of Physical Cosmology
- Course title, Dave Schramm, and Rocky Kolb
Foundations
- Hubble's law
- General Relativity
- Relativistic cosmology: lifestyles in an expanding universe
The Homogeneous Universe
- Dark energy: evidence and consequences
- Cosmic microwave background
- Primordial nucleosynthesis of the light elements, e.g., as of the seen here
- Particle dark matter
theory: production here and there; and candidates;
observation: direct and indirect detection
much ado: about nothing, or the edge of greatness? - Inflation: smoothness and wrinkles
Inhomogeneous Universe
- Large scale structure observed
- Structure formation theory and simulations: large scales, clusters and halos, galaxy dynamics and cosmology
- origins of cosmic hierarchy: pretty example, many more
- visible galaxy contents and their origin
- clusters as cosmological tools
- QSOs: supermassive black holes as cosmic lighthouses
- Intergalactic medium and baryonic energy flows
Cosmology at Illinois
Syllabus
Addendum: ASTR496PC
