Course: The Universe in light of Planck and BICEP2
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)