Università Roma Tre

60 hours of lectures
•Brief introduction to general relativity and Einstein's equation
•Robertson-Walker metric
•Hubble's Law and Hubble Tension
•Redshift
•Cosmological distances
•The cosmological constant
•Friedmann and Einsten-de Sitter models
•Thermal History of the Universe
•Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB)
•Jeans' Theory for Gravitational Instability
•Application of Jeans' theory in Cosmology: linear evolution
•Formation of Structures I: case only baryons
•Formation of Structures II: case with also non-baryonic matter
•Perturbation spectrum, filters, and transfer functions
•Covariance functions
•Linear theory and observations: CMB fluctuations
•Non-linear evolution of perturbations
•Large-scale structure of the Universe: statistical analysis of the distribution of galaxies
•Viralized structures: the theory of Press and Schechter and its extension
•Light matter and dark matter: the bias problem.
•Notes on present and future cosmological missions: Euclid
•Introduction to extra-galactic radio sources


64-hour completion: article study
"Hosts and Environments: a (large-scale) radio history of AGN and star-forming galaxies"
(https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00159-022-00142-1)

Main texts:
- Cosmology: The Origin and Evolution of Cosmic Structure by P. Coles and F. Lucchin
- Structure Formation in the Universe by T. Padhmanaban

Recommended texts:
- Cosmological Physics by J.A. Peacock
- The Large Scale Structure of the Universe by P.J.E. Peebles