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Centro de Astrofísica da Universidade do Porto
1 to 7 June 2014, Angra do Heroísmo, Azores, Portugal

 

Basic tools
Martin Kunz

Lecture 1: basic cosmology
  • homogeneous & isotropic universe
  • redshift, Hubble law
  • age and distances
  • Friedmann equations
  • matter/radiation dominated evolution

Lecture 2: thermal history
  • thermal equilibrium, decoupling
  • neutrinos
  • WIMP dark matter

Lecture 3: basic statistics
  • basic probability theory
  • likelihood, etc, Bayes
  • Fisher forecasting
  • MCMC methods