Cosmology

General Course Information

All details regarding location, schedule, and ECTS credits are available in the KSL.

Course Description

This course provides an introduction to the fundamental concepts of modern cosmology.

The main topics covered include:

• The expanding Universe
• Homogeneous cosmology
• The Hot Big Bang model
• Cosmological perturbations
• The cosmic microwave background
• Large-scale structure of the universe
• Cosmological observations
• Inflation
• Dark Matter and Dark Matter searches

• Big Bang Nucleosynthesis (BBN)