Course: The Universe in light of Planck and BICEP2

Tue, 06/05/2014 - 12:26

IVICFA and the U. Valencia organize this Master and Doctorate Course that will be given by Prof. Nick E. Mavromatos of King's College London & CERN-TH-PH.

Dates: 12 to 16 May (10:30 to 12:30 h). Registration at:

http://indico.ific.uv.es/indico/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=2182

Held at Burjassot Campus, Theoretical Physics Dept.(Block D,4th floor)

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Contents of the Lectures:
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PART I:
Fundamentals of Cosmology.

PART II:
Inflationary Models for the Universe
Slow roll Parameters and Observables.
Some Phenomenologically "successful" models.

PART III:
Cosmological Perturbations & Cosmic Microwave Background anisotropies.

PART IV:
Connections with Observations:
Possible explanations of the discrepancies between Planck and BICEP2 data
-Models with extra-dimensions (DGP)
-Massive gravity
-Weyl geometry (scale invariance)