Astronomy 8873: Cosmology and Structure Formation
Spring 2026

Handouts

• Course Syllabus

Lecture notes

All notes are in pdf.

• I. Observational Basis of the Standard Model
  Slides in pptx or pdf.
• II. General Relativity
  
• III. Homogeneous Cosmological Models: Geometry
  
• IV. Homogeneous Cosmological Models: Dynamics
  
• V. The Cosmic Microwave Background
  

Problem sets and short questions

• Short questions 1
• Problem set 1, due 1/30.
• Problem set 2, due 2/13.
• Short questions 2 (in class, 2/11)

External links

• A new way to visualize General Relativity. This video proposes an alternative to the conventional "rubber sheet" visualization of curved spacetime, one that better represents what is going on in GR.