Introduction to Modern Cosmology

Abstract: The lectures will aim to give a pedagogical overview of the remarkable progress in cosmology over the past thirty years and to introduce the student to current research in the field. Topics to be covered include inflation; large-scale structure formation; the cosmic microwave background; cosmic acceleration; dark matter and dark energy; fluctuations and anisotropies; gravitational waves; the cosmological constant problems; cosmology and elementary particle physics; Dirac-Born-Infeld inflation; and cosmic strings.

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