Lectures
Additional Material for the Winter School.
First week material.
- The inflationary Universe (Sabino Matarrese).
- Lectures 1, 2 and 3 (Color PDF, B/W printer friendly PDF).
- Lecture 4 (Printer friendly PDF).
- Theory of primordial CMB anisotropies: temperature and polarization (Wayne Hu).
- CMB observations and cosmological constraints (Bruce Partridge).
- Extra material: Task force on CMB Research (see astro-ph/0604101)
- Lecture 1 (Color PDF, B/W printer friendly PDF ).
- Lecture 2 (Color PDF, B/W printer friendly PDF ).
- Lecture 3 (Color PDF, B/W printer friendly PDF ).
- Lecture 4 (Color PDF, B/W printer friendly PDF ).
- Statistical techniques for data analysis in Cosmology (Licia Verde).
- Lecture 1. Probabilities and statistical inference (PDF).
- Lecture 2 (PDF).
- Lecture 3 (PDF).
- Tutorials (Raul Jimenez).
- Information with the links to the software to be used (TXT file).
- Link to the CMB web page at the IAC. A list of useful links, which was used in the tutorial, is found here (Healpix, LAMBDA site, CMBFAST, CAMB, etc).
- Tutorial 1. Data files used (TAR Gzipped file).
- Tutorial 2. Data files used (TAR Gzipped file).
Second week material.
- Galactic and extragalactic foregrounds (Rod D. Davies).
- Summary of the lectures (Color PDF).
- Lecture 1. Synchrotron and free-free emission. (Color PDF).
- Lecture 2. Dust emission (Color PDF).
- Lecture 3. Radiosources (Color PDF).
- Lecture 4. Foregrounds and future experiments (Color PDF).
- Galactic Plane at 33 GHz (Color PDF).
- Anomalous dust emission (Color PDF).
- CMB fluctuations in the post-recombination Universe (Matthias Bartelmann).
- Gaussianity (Enrique Martinez-Gonzalez).
- Lecture 1. Isotropic Gaussian Random Fields (PDF).
- Lecture 2 (PDF).
- Lecture 3 (PDF).
- Lecture 4 (PDF).
- Other probes in Fundamental Cosmology (Malcolm Longair).