Lucio Massimiliano Mayer: Katalogdaten im Frühjahrssemester 2019 |
| Name | Herr Prof. Dr. Lucio Massimiliano Mayer (Professor Universität Zürich (UZH)) |
| Adresse | Inst. f. Teilchen- und Astrophysik ETH Zürich, HIT J 12.1 Wolfgang-Pauli-Str. 27 8093 Zürich SWITZERLAND |
| lmayer@ethz.ch | |
| Departement | Physik |
| Beziehung | Dozent |
| Nummer | Titel | ECTS | Umfang | Dozierende | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 402-0394-00L | Theoretical Astrophysics and Cosmology Studierende der UZH dürfen diese Lerneinheit nicht an der ETH belegen, sondern müssen das entsprechende Modul direkt an der UZH buchen. | 10 KP | 4V + 2U | L. M. Mayer, J. Yoo | |
| Kurzbeschreibung | This is the second of a two course series which starts with "General Relativity" and continues in the spring with "Theoretical Astrophysics and Cosmology", where the focus will be on applying general relativity to cosmology as well as developing the modern theory of structure formation in a cold dark matter Universe. | ||||
| Lernziel | Learning the fundamentals of modern physical cosmology. This entails understanding the physical principles behind the description of the homogeneous Universe on large scales in the first part of the course, and moving on to the inhomogeneous Universe model where perturbation theory is used to study the development of structure through gravitational instability in the second part of the course. Modern notions of dark matter and dark energy will also be introduced and discussed. | ||||
| Inhalt | The course will cover the following topics: - Homogeneous cosmology - Thermal history of the universe, recombination, baryogenesis and nucleosynthesis - Dark matter and Dark Energy - Inflation - Perturbation theory: Relativistic and Newtonian - Model of structure formation and initial conditions from Inflation - Cosmic microwave background anisotropies - Spherical collapse and galaxy formation - Large scale structure and cosmological probes | ||||
| Literatur | Suggested textbooks: H.Mo, F. Van den Bosch, S. White: Galaxy Formation and Evolution S. Carroll: Space-Time and Geometry: An Introduction to General Relativity S. Dodelson: Modern Cosmology Secondary textbooks: S. Weinberg: Gravitation and Cosmology V. Mukhanov: Physical Foundations of Cosmology E. W. Kolb and M. S. Turner: The Early Universe N. Straumann: General relativity with applications to astrophysics A. Liddle and D. Lyth: Cosmological Inflation and Large Scale Structure | ||||
| Voraussetzungen / Besonderes | Knowledge of General Relativity is recommended. | ||||