· UCL undergraduate lecture course 2005-2009.
See new course by Hiranya Peiris and Filipe Abdalla.
· UCL/Imperial graduate
lectures 2007
· Weak lensing tomography and a very basic
introduction to photometric redshifts (Catania
lensing school Nov 2006) ppt
| pdf
UCL Graduate Lectures Autumn 2004
Introduction to Cosmology
·
Lecture 1: Global Contents and
Dynamics of the Universe (Mon 4 Oct) .ppt
·
Lecture 2: Dark Matter Clustering
and Galaxy Surveys (Tue 19 Oct) .ppt
·
Lecture 3: The Cosmic Microwave
Background (Tue 26 Oct) .ppt
·
Lecture 4: Gravitational Lensing .ppt
IoA Graduate Lectures Spring 2003
Probing Dark Matter: Gravitational
Lensing, Large Scale Structure and the Cosmic Microwave Background
This course will provide an introduction to observational cosmology focussing
on measuring the dark matter content of the universe using the currently most
exciting observational probes. Lectures will be held in the Sackler Lecture
Theatre.
- Lecture
1: Introduction. Mon 17 Feb (.pdf)
Historical perspective; Universe inventory; Dark matter properties;
Candidates; Course overview.
- Lecture
2: Matter P(k). Tue 20 Feb (.pdf)
Linear theory growth of structure; Shape of matter power spectrum,
dependence on dark matter content; Observations of galaxy P(k);
- Lecture
3: The CMB. Mon 24 Feb (.pdf)
Temperature power spectrum shape; Observations; Inference of
cosmological parameters.
- Lecture
4: Lensing basics. Thu 27 Feb (.pdf)
Lensing theory; Microlensing; Strong lensing by galaxies.
- Lecture
5: Cluster lensing. Mon 3 March (.pdf)
Strong and weak lensing by galaxy clusters; Weak lensing theory.
- Lecture
6: Cosmic shear. Thu 6 March (.pdf)
Non-linear power spectrum; Theoretical predictions; Current
observations. Galaxy profiles from weak lensing.
- Lecture
7: Velocities. Mon 10 March (.pdf)
Measurement; Bulk motions; Velocity power spectrum; Density
reconstruction;
- Lecture
8: Conclusions. Mon 17 March (.pdf)
Putting it all together, the big picture; Comparison with other probes
eg. supernovae; Dark energy; The future.
