Cosmology

2022 Course Programme

Instructors

Manolis Plionis
Vasilis Oikonomou

Newtonian cosmology. The Friedmann models, their dynamics and kinematics. Solutions of the Friedmann equations. Elements of relativistic cosmology. The Big-Bang scenario and its epochs. Inflation, the Planck era and the first stages of the universe’s evolution. Introduction to cosmological perturbation theory. Linear Newtonian perturbations and large-scale structure formation. Dark matter, dark energy and the recent universal acceleration