Course on Cosmological Perturbation Theory, CAMB and CosmoMC

por Jussi Valiviita (U. Portsmouth)

martes 10 jun. 2008 15:00 → 16:00 Europe/Madrid

Sala de Juntas del IFIC (Edf. Institutos de Investigación)

This course includes the following topics: 1) CMB & matter fluctuations, angular power spectrum and Boltzmann equations. 2) Installing CosmoMC, a Fortran program to constrain cosmological parameters with various CMB and LSS data sets. 3) Camb - a Fortran program for solving all the above given the cosmological parameters. 4) MCMC method for likelihood analysis - (dis) adavantages and dangers. 5) Running CosmoMC and analyzing the results. June 10th: 15 -> 16:30; June 11th: 12 -> 13:30, 15:30 -> 16:30; June 12th,13th: 15:30 -> 16:30.