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: Physical Cosmology.

Grades: Pass or fail.

References: to be listed

Lecture notes (pdf)
Chapter 1: Spherical collapse model in cosmology (pdf)
Chapter 2: Newtonian perturbation theory and galaxy bias (pdf)
Chapter 3: Nonlinear relativistic dynamics (pdf)
Chapter 4: Standard Inflationary models (pdf)
Chapter 5: Application of the effective field theory to inflation and dark energy models (pdf)
Chapter 6: Cosmic microwave background anisotropiese (pdf)



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