Syllabus
Fourteen-week syllabus; paired-module assessment cadence documented.
Status: Approved for review release · not yet approved for instructional use
Observational foundations of modern cosmology, including supernovae, BAO, the CMB, weak lensing, growth, parameter inference, and survey systematics.
Planning Documents
Schedule
Fourteen weekly modules and seven paired labs/problem sets.
References
Per-source provenance, exact release hashes, and retrieval limitations recorded.
Lecture Materials
- Lecture 01: Redshift, Scale Factor, and the Expanding Universe — slides · Lecture 01: Redshift, Scale Factor, and the Expanding Universe — notes
- Lecture 02: The FLRW Distance Ladder — slides · Lecture 02: The FLRW Distance Ladder — notes
- Lecture 03: Type Ia Supernovae as Standardizable Candles — slides · Lecture 03: Type Ia Supernovae as Standardizable Candles — notes
- Lecture 04: Supernova Covariance and Calibration — slides · Lecture 04: Supernova Covariance and Calibration — notes
- Lecture 05: Baryon Acoustic Oscillations as a Standard Ruler — slides · Lecture 05: Baryon Acoustic Oscillations as a Standard Ruler — notes
- Lecture 06: The CMB Acoustic Scale — slides · Lecture 06: The CMB Acoustic Scale — notes
- Lecture 07: Weak Gravitational Lensing and Cosmic Shear — slides · Lecture 07: Weak Gravitational Lensing and Cosmic Shear — notes
- Lecture 08: Growth of Structure and Redshift-Space Distortions — slides · Lecture 08: Growth of Structure and Redshift-Space Distortions — notes
- Lecture 09: Likelihoods, Priors, and Parameter Degeneracies — slides · Lecture 09: Likelihoods, Priors, and Parameter Degeneracies — notes
- Lecture 10: Survey Selection and Malmquist Bias — slides · Lecture 10: Survey Selection and Malmquist Bias — notes
- Lecture 11: Cross-Probe Concordance and Tension — slides · Lecture 11: Cross-Probe Concordance and Tension — notes
- Lecture 12: Curvature and Evolving Dark Energy — slides · Lecture 12: Curvature and Evolving Dark Energy — notes
- Lecture 13: Systematics, Calibration, and Error Budgets — slides · Lecture 13: Systematics, Calibration, and Error Budgets — notes
- Lecture 14: Observational Cosmology Synthesis — slides · Lecture 14: Observational Cosmology Synthesis — notes
Labs and Observing
- Lab 01: A numerical FLRW distance calculator
- Lab 02: A covariance-aware supernova excerpt
- Lab 03: BAO distance and ruler conventions
- Lab 04: Reading the CMB acoustic scale
- Lab 05: Weak-lensing parameter combinations
- Lab 06: Growth history and observable distinctions
- Lab 07: Cross-probe evidence dossier
Problem Sets
- Problem Set 01: Redshift and expansion scales · solutions · assessment instructions
- Problem Set 02: Distance measures and standard candles · solutions · assessment instructions
- Problem Set 03: BAO and the sound horizon · solutions · assessment instructions
- Problem Set 04: CMB acoustic-scale inference · solutions · assessment instructions
- Problem Set 05: Weak-lensing parameter combinations · solutions · assessment instructions
- Problem Set 06: Growth and parameter inference · solutions · assessment instructions
- Problem Set 07: Evidence audit and synthesis · solutions · assessment instructions
Source Code and Data
Source
Course-specific scripts, notebooks, and generators.
Data
Course-specific datasets with provenance notes.