Preface¶
This course was designed for students at the Savitribai Phule Pune University (SPPU) pursuing a Masters in Science degree with a specialization in Astronomy and Astrophysics. Prior knowledge of General Relativity is assumed.
Contact hours:¶
Approximately 15 lectures in total.
Tutorials/Assignments¶
Roughly 1 every two weeks
Texts of interest¶
Principles of Physical Cosmology by Jim Peebles
Introduction to Cosmology by Jayant Narlikar
Cosmology Lecture Notes by Matthias Bartelmann
Cosmology Lecture Notes by Sean Carroll
Galaxy Formation and Evolution by Houjun Mo, Frank van den Bosch and Simon White
Lecture notes:¶
I will try to maintain python notebooks, but these notes will heavily borrow from the texts above. Therefore, there will be quite some overlap between the notes and some of these texts. Authoratative versions will always be found in the above texts. I will also use codes which will use functions from different publicly available python packages like numpy, scipy, matplotlib and my own code aum.
Evaluation¶
Classroom engagement
Assignments
Final examination
Purpose of the lecture notes¶
The lecture notes are an evolving document and will aid as reference material. I will try to keep it updated via github (open github accounts if you do not already have them) and add all of the members as collaborators. If you find interesting things you would like to add to these lecture notes, then please fork the project and send pull requests to me for extra brownie points.