Program/Lectures

Lecture I

Dr Brice Menard (John Hopkins Univ., USA) Lectures in pdf - parte 1, parte 2
Large Scale Structure of the Universe - Large Surveys

• Introduction to the night sky
• From detectors to images
• Statistical tools
• Photometric surveys
• Spectroscopic surveys

Lecture II

Dr Graça Rocha (Caltech/JPL, USA) Lectures in pdf - parte 1, parte 2
CMB/Planck

• The Physics of CMB I: Cosmological perturbations; Statistics of random fields; Temperature anisotropies; Polarization of the CMB; Anisotropy Power Spectrum;
• The Physics of CMB II: physics of the CMB: Mechanisms for primary fluctuations: Sachs Wolfe effect, Acoustics Peaks; Silk damping, damping of the CMB power spectrum; tensor perturbations - gravitational waves; B-modes;
• Numerical Tools to study the CMB: CAMB, CosmoMC, NGsims
• CMB and the Large Scale Structure in the Universe: Galaxy formation and clustering, non-linear gravitational clustering; CMB lensing, SZ effect; putting observations together.

Lecture III

Dr John Leslie (Univ. of Guelph, Canada) Lectures in pdf
The Mystery of Existence: Why is there anything at all?

• Introduction to "Why anything?"
• Eternal Cosmos or Quantum Big Bang?
• Fine-tuning and many Universes
• Anthropic Principle
• Reasonless existence or creation by God?

Lecture IV

Dr Krzysztof M. Gorski (JPL/Caltech, and Warsaw University Observatory, USA & Poland) Lectures in pdf
Flattening the Sphere: HEALPix - Concept and Applications to Effective Handling and Analysis of Full Sky Data Sets

• Beyond the standard lore: CMB anomalies, isotropies and non-gaussianity
• Special Lecture - Healpix

Lecture V

Dr Neal Katz (Univ. of Massachussets, USA) Lectures in pdf
Cosmological Simulations

• Galaxy Formation: Numerical Techniques
• Galaxy Formation: Birth of the Cool
• Galaxy Formation: Ins and Outs
• Galaxy Formation: Bayesian SAMs Methods
• Galaxy Formation: Bayesian SAMs Results

Lecture VI - Distinguished Lecture

Dr J. A. F. Pacheco (Observatoire de la Cote d'Azur, France) Lectures in pdf
Cosmology in Brazil - 45 years of history

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