| Date | Teacher | Place | Topic | Lecture notes / comments |
| 14.01.2010 | Hans Kristian Eriksen? | Peisestua? | Course presentation? | Brief review of course, and administration of accounts etc. Slides PDF? |
| 19.01.2010 | Hans Kristian Eriksen? | Peisestua? | Brief overview of the course: From parameters to the CMB spectrum? | Power point lecture; no need to take notes. Read chapter 1 of Dodelson for useful background information. Slides PDF? |
| 21.01.2010 | Hans Kristian Eriksen? | Peisestua? | Review of the project? | A walkthrough of the project will be given, pointing out what your main tasks will be. Slides XPS PDF ? |
| 26.01.2010 | Ingunn Kathrine Wehus? | Peisestua? | A very quick introduction to GR? | Chapter 2.1 in Dodelson; tensors, metrics, the geodesic equation, the Einstein equations? |
| 28.01.2010 | Hans Kristian Eriksen? | Peisestua? | Numerical solution of differential equations? | The example "sin(x)" program shown during the lecture is available at ~hke/AST5220/v10/src/diffeqn_test1 from any astro computer? |
| 03.02.2010 | Hans Kristian Eriksen? | Peisestua? | Splines and debugging? | ? |
| 04.02.2010 | Hans Kristian Eriksen? | Peisestua? | A first introduction to Boltzmann equations? | Chapter 3.1, 3.2 and 3.4. ? |
| 09.02.2010 | Ingunn Kathrine Wehus? | Peisestua? | More on GR? | Chapter 2.2-2.4 in Dodelson; distances in the universe, conformal time; the cosmic inventory.? |
| 11.02.2010 | Hans Kristian Eriksen? | Peisestua? | ? | ? |
| 16.02.2010 | Hans Kristian Eriksen? | Peisestua? | Recombination? | Section 3.3 in Dodelson. The Saha and Peebles equations. Slides in pdf and ppt? |
| 18.02.2010 | Hans Kristian Eriksen? | Peisestua? | PROJECT MILESTONE 1? | Deadline for first milestone of project: The uniform background cosmology. Description? |
| 23.02.2010 | Hans Kristian Eriksen? | Peisestua? | Boltzmann equations? | Chapter 4.1-4.3: Harmonic oscillator, linearization and Compton scattering? |
| 25.02.2010 | Hans Kristian Eriksen? | ? | ? | ? |
| 02.03.2010 | Hans Kristian Eriksen? | Peisestua? | Boltzmann equations for photons? | Chapter 4.4, Lecture notes? |
| 04.03.2010 | Hans Kristian Eriksen? | Peisestua? | ? | ? |
| 09.03.2010 | Hans Kristian Eriksen? | Peisestua? | Boltzmann equations for baryons and CDM? | Chapter 4.5-4.6? |
| 11.03.2010 | Hans Kristian Eriksen? | Peisestua? | ? | ? |
| 16.03.2010 | Hans Kristian Eriksen? | Peisestua? | Linearized Einstein equations? | Chapter 5.1-5.2? |
| 18.03.2010 | Hans Kristian Eriksen? | Peisestua? | PROJECT MILESTONE 2? | Deadline for second milestone of project: The recombination history of the universe. Description? |
| 23.03.2010 | Hans Kristian Eriksen? | Peisestua? | Einstein equations and tensor perturbations? | Chapter 5.3-5.5? |
| 06.04.2010 | Hans Kristian Eriksen? | Peisestua? | Initial conditions and Boltzmann equations? | Chapter 6.1-6.2? |
| 08.04.2010 | Hans Kristian Eriksen? | Peisestua? | ? | ? |
| 13.04.2010 | Hans Kristian Eriksen? | Peisestua? | Inflation? | Section 6.3? |
| 15.04.2010 | Hans Kristian Eriksen? | Peisestua? | ? | ? |
| 20.04.2010 | Hans Kristian Eriksen? | Peisestua? | Inflation and tensor perturbations? | Section 6.4. POSTPONED BECAUSE OF TRAVEL? |
| 22.04.2010 | Hans Kristian Eriksen? | Peisestua? | ? | ? |
| 27.04.2010 | Hans Kristian Eriksen? | Peisestua? | Inflation and scalar perturbations? | ? |
| 29.04.2010 | Hans Kristian Eriksen? | Peisestua? | PROJECT MILESTONE 3? | Deadline for third milestone of project: Solving the perturbed Einstein and Boltzmann equations. Description? |
| 04.05.2010 | Hans Kristian Eriksen? | Peisestua? | CMB anisotropies? | Chapter 8.1-8.4? |
| 06.05.2010 | Hans Kristian Eriksen? | ? | ? | ? |
| 11.05.2010 | Hans Kristian Eriksen? | Peisestua? | ? | ? |
| 18.05.2010 | Hans Kristian Eriksen? | Peisestua? | Large-scale structure? | Chapter 7? |
| 20.05.2010 | Hans Kristian Eriksen? | Peisestua? | ? | ? |
| 25.05.2010 | Hans Kristian Eriksen? | Peisestua? | ? | ? |
| 27.05.2010 | Hans Kristian Eriksen? | Peisestua? | ? | ? |
| 01.06.2010 | Hans Kristian Eriksen? | Peisestua? | ? | ? |
| 03.06.2010 | Hans Kristian Eriksen? | Peisestua? | ? | ? |
| 08.06.2010 | Hans Kristian Eriksen? | Peisestua? | PROJECT MILESTONE 4? | Deadline for fourth milestone of project: The CMB power spectrum Description? |
| 15.06.2010 | Hans Kristian Eriksen? | Peisestua? | ? | ? |
Teaching plan
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