Topics: General Relativity review, inflation, Big Bang Nucleosynthesis, dark matter, axions/ALPs, primordial black holes, baryogenesis, cosmological phase transitions, gravitational waves, and selected contemporary topics.
Grading: 50% HWs, 20% Midterm, 30% Final Exam.
Textbooks:
-- Scott Dodelson and Fabian Schmidt, Modern Cosmology, 2nd ed., Academic Press, 2021.
-- V.A. Rubakov and D.S. Gorbunov, Introduction to the Theory of the Early Universe: Hot Big Bang Theory, World Scientific, 2017.
Additional sources:
-- E.W. Kolb and M.S. Turner, The Early Universe, Addison–Wesley, 1990.
-- V. Mukhanov, Physical Foundations of Cosmology, Cambridge University Press, 2005.
-- J.A. Peacock, Cosmological Physics, Cambridge University Press, 1999.
-- D. Baumann, Cosmology, Cambridge University Press, 2022.
-- S. Weinberg, Cosmology, Oxford University Press, 2008