Università Roma Tre

- Pills of relativity: the Friedmann Robertson-Walker Universe. Hubble Law. Redshift. Cosmological constant. Big Bang and cosmological horizon. 

- Cosmological perturbations: Newtonian approximation and Jeans length. Transfer function.

- Cosmic Microwave background: primordial anisotropies; acoustic peaks; Sachs-Wolfe effect.

- More cosmic backgrounds: Radio, X, Infra-red and Gamma.

- Secondary anisotropies in the cosmic backgrounds: Ly-alpha forest; Gunn-Peterson Effect; reionization and 21 cm background; Sunayev-Zel'dovich effect. 

- Large-Scale Structure of the Universe; statistical analyses of the galaxy distribution; probability distribution; 

  correlation functions; power spectra; peculiar velocities and redshift space distortions. 

- Non-linear evolution of the cosmic perturbations; the Zel’dovich approximation; spherical collapse; N-body problem 

  and cosmological simulations.

- Virialized structures. The Press-Schechter theory (and its extension); cosmic structure mass function.

- Elements of galaxy formation: theory vs observations.

Coles P., Lucchin F. Cosmology [Wiley 2000] - Primary reference book -

Peacock J. Physical Cosmology. Cambridge Univ.Press

Longair M. Galaxy Formation [A&A Library ]

"Cosmology" di Weinberg (Oxford University Press)

A number of scientific papers provided by the teacher during the course.