Learner Testimonials:
"This was my favorite course in the whole semester. Prof.Weller did explain really well all the core concepts and helped us in understanding our universe even better."
"Das Engagement und die Begeisterung des Dozenten für sein Thema, das war auch ansteckend. Und die immer gute Laune. Die Möglichkeit häufig und viele Fragen zu stellen. Die große Bereitschaft Fragen zu beantworten, sowohl des Dozenten als auch der Tutoren."
Course Contents
The core of the course is not just the lecture but also hands-on problems you learn to solve with the advice of experienced tutors.
In particular topics include
- The Cosmic Distance Ladder
- Modelling the Expansion of the Universe
- Cosmology from Distance Measures
- The Large-Scale Distribution of Galaxies
- Modelling the Large-Scale Structure of the Universe
- Cosmological Tests with Large-Scale Structure
- Structures in Radiation - The Cosmic Microwave Background
- Modelling of Cosmic Microwave Background Anisotropies
- Cosmology with Cosmic Microwave Background Anisotropies
- Weighing the Universe - The Most Massive Objects: Galaxy Clusters
- State of the Art: Bringing it all together - The H0 Tension
Organisational Matters
Please find further details on the LSF and Moodle
Lecture Notes and Literature
Note that the lecture notes are available
for download on the LMU Moodle
Ray d'Inverno, "Introducing Einstein's Relativity"
Hobson, Efstathiou and Lasenby, "General Relativity - An Introduction for Physicists"
Steven Weinberg, "Gravitation and Cosmology"
Steven Weinberg, "Cosmology"
John A. Peacock, "Cosmological Physics"
Scott Dodelson and Fabian Schmidt, "Modern Cosmology"
available as e-book from the LMU library here.
Daniel Baumann's fantastic Lecture Notes on Cosmology
And now his new book here
