winter term 2012, theoretical cosmology (A. Westphal)
    when and where:    Wednesday and Friday, 11.15 am - 12.45 pm, DESY, Notkestr. 85, build. 2a, seminar room 2

    literature:

    • Kolb and Turner: The Early Universe (1990)
    • Mukhanov: Physical Foundations of Cosmology (2005)
    • Gorbunov and Rubakov: Introduction to the Theory of the Early Universe, 2 vols. (2011)
    • Weinberg: Gravitation and Cosmology (1972)
      Weinberg: Cosmology (2008)
    • Lyth and Liddle: The Primordial Density Perturbation (2009)
    • Ryden: Introduction to Cosmology (2003)
    • Dodelson: Modern Cosmology (2003)
    • Goenner: Einfuehrung in die Kosmologie (1996)
    • Johanna Erdmenger (editor): String Cosmology (2009)
    • Lyth and Riotto, on the arXiv (http://arxiv.org): Particle Physics models of Inflation and the Cosmological Density Perturbation (1999)
      Trodden and Carroll, on the arXiv (http://arxiv.org): TASI Lectures: Introduction to Cosmology (2004)
      Daniel Baumann, on the arXiv (http://arxiv.org): TASI Lectures on Inflation (2009)


    lecture notes.

    • 17.10.2012: Notes
    • 19.10.2012: Notes
    • 24.10.2012: Notes
    • 26.10.2012: Notes
    • 31.10.2012: Notes
    • 02.11.2012: Notes
    • 07.11.2012: Notes
    • 14.11.2012: Notes
    • 16.11.2012: Notes
    • 21.11.2012: Notes
    • 23.11.2012: Notes
    • 28.11.2012: Notes
    • 30.11.2012: Notes
    • 05.12.2012: Notes
    • 07.12.2012: Notes
    • 12.12.2012: Notes
    • 14.12.2012: Notes
    • 19.12.2012: Notes
    • 21.12.2012: Notes
    • 09.01.2013: Notes
    • 11.01.2013: Notes
    • 18.01.2013: Notes
    • 23.01.2013: Notes
    • 25.01.2013: Notes
    • 30.01.2013: Notes
    • 01.02.2013: Notes
    • string cosmology and moduli stabilization add-on (optional): Notes
    • creation of a multiverse by eternal inflation - time evolution of the scalar inflaton field (vertical axis) with a quadratic potential;
      at each Hubble time step the field is plotted as a function of comoving coordinates (x,y) (horizontal axes):