Lectures: MWF 10:40-11:30am (period 4) in NPB 1200

Instructor: Richard Woodard; NPB 2065; Email: woodard@phys.ufl.edu

Office hours: by appointment

Textbook: Physical Foundations of Cosmology by V. Mukhanov

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Announcements will be posted here occur here during the semester. Please refer to this website regularly.

Dr. Sohyun Park from Penn State University, will speak on ``Structure Formation in a Nonlocally Modified Gravity Model,'' at 2pm on Friday, December 7, in NPB 2165. Five points extra credit will be awarded to anyone who attends and e-mails me a one paragraph summary of Dr. Park's seminar.

The URL for faculty evaluations is https://evaluations.ufl.edu

SCHEDULE:

Chapter 1 Kinematics and dynamics of an expanding universe
08/22: 
08/24: 
08/27: 
08/29: 

Chapter 2 Propagation of light and horizons
08/29: 
08/31: 
09/05: 
09/07: 
09/10:  Guest Lecture by Professor Jim Fry
09/12:  Guest Lecture by Professor Jim Fry
09/14:  Guest Lecture by Professor Jim Fry

Chapter 3 The hot universe
09/17: 
09/19: 
09/21: 
09/24: 
09/26: 
09/28: 
10/01: 
10/03: 
10/05: 
10/08: 
10/10: 
10/12: 

Chapter 5 Inflation I: homogeneous limit
10/15: 
10/17: 
10/19: 

Chapter 6 Inhomogeneous universe
10/22: 
10/24: 
10/26: 

Chapter 7 Gravitational instability in general relativity
10/29: 
10/31: 
11/02: 

Chapter 8 Inflation II: origin of the primordial inhomogeneities
11/05: 
11/07:  Double lecture to make up for 11/19
11/14: 
11/16: 
11/19:  Class cancelled.

Chapter 9 Cosmic microwave background anisotropies
11/26: 
11/28: 
11/30: 
12/03: 
12/05: