Modern Cosmology

Scott Dodelson is Head of the Department of Physics at Carnegie Mellon University. He received his Ph.D. from Columbia University and was a research fellow at Harvard before moving to Fermilab, the University of Chicago, and Carnegie Mellon. He is the author of more than 200 papers on cosmology, most of which focus on the cosmic microwave background and the large-scale structure of the universe. Dodelson serves as the co-Chair of the Science Committee of the Dark Energy Survey. Fabian Schmidt is a research group leader at the Max-Planck-Institut für Astrophysik (MPA) in Garching, Germany. He obtained his Ph.D. in Astronomy & Astrophysics at the University of Chicago in 2009, and moved to MPA after fellowships at Caltech and Princeton. His work in cosmology (approximately 100 papers so far) focuses on theory, numerics, and analysis of quasilinear and nonlinear large-scale structure, and how we can learn from it about gravity, dark energy, and the physics of inflation.

1. The Concordance Model of Cosmology 2. The Expanding Universe 3. The Fundamental Equations of Cosmology 4. The Origin of Species 5. The Inhomogeneous Universe: Matter & Radiation 6. The Inhomogeneous Universe: Gravity 7. Initial Conditions 8. Growth of Structure: Linear Theory 9. The Cosmic Microwave Background 10. The Polarized CMB 11. Probes of Structure: Tracers 12. Growth of Structure: Beyond Linear Theory 13. Probes of Structure: Lensing 14. Analysis and Inference