Program
Lecture I
Dr Brice Menard (John Hopkins Univ., USA) Lectures in pdf
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
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 Côte d'Azur, France) Lectures in pdf
Cosmology in Brazil - 45 years of history
Schedule
| Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | |
| 09h00 - 10h00 | V |
III |
V |
I |
III |
| 10h00 -10h45 | COFFEE-BREAK |
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| 10h45 - 11h45 | II |
I |
I |
V |
V |
| 12h00 - 14h00 | LUNCH |
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| 14h00 - 15h00 | III |
V |
IV |
III |
II |
| 15h00 - 16h00 | I |
II |
III |
I |
IV |
| 16h00 - 16h30 | COFFEE-BREAK |
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| 16h30 - 17h30 | II |
VI |
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