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The lecture notes and problem sheets accompanying the course will be made available on Learnweb (course Cosmo-2026_2). Please sign up!
Credit points (U Münster students):
+ 2 ECTS points for attending the lectures in person
+ 1 ECTS point for attending the tutorial in person
+ 3 ECTS points if you (i) obtain at least 50% of all possible points on the problem sheets and (ii) present at least twice on the blackboard in the tutorial
Solutions to the problem sheets can be handed in in groups of two.
Credit points (Erasmus students):
Same requirements as for U Münster students, plus an oral exam at the end of the semester, which gives 2 ECTS points in addition. Passing this exam is a necessary prerequisite for being awarded any ECTS points. The total grade for the course will be exclusively determined by the grade for the oral exam.
Contents (tentative)
I Prelude
01) Standard model of cosmology
02) Thermodynamics in the expanding Universe
II Hot Big Bang
03) Cosmic microwave background
04) Neutrino decoupling
05) Big-bang nucleosynthesis
06) Dark matter
07) Phase transitions
08) Baryogenesis
09) Cosmic defects
III Primordial perturbations
10) Cosmological perturbation theory
11) Structure Formation
12) Cosmic inflation
- Lehrende/r: Kai Schmitz