Class description: The purpose of this intensive block course is to introduce active research fields and provide essential ingredients and tools for research in theoretical cosmology. The course will focus on large-scale structure probes of inflationary cosmology.

Prerequisites: Good understanding of general relativity.

Grades: Pass or fail.

References: to be listed

Lecture notes (pdf)
Chapter 1: Spherical collapse model in cosmology
Chapter 2: Lagrangian perturbation theory and galaxy bias
Chapter 3: Nonlinear relativistic dynamics
Chapter 4: Inflationary models and application of the effective field theory
Chapter 5: Modification of gravity and dark energy models
Chapter 6: Weak gravitational lensing and geometric optics in curved spacetime


Homework: Derive all the equations in the lecture materials :D