course dates credits
Dark Energy May 18 - May 28 2
teachers schedule term
Paolo Creminelli Mon-Thu, 10:00-11:30 3

Program:

  1. The cosmological constant problem
  2. Anthropic arguments and the Bousso-Polchinski landscape
  3. Quintessence
  4. Experimental probes of acceleration: SNs, BAO, CMB
  5. Scalar-tensor theories
  6. Perturbations in the presence of Dark Energy
  7. Red-shift space distortions, weak lensing, solar system bounds
  8. Screening mechanisms: chamaleon
  9. Vainshtein screening and the cubic Galileon
  10. Galileon and Horndenski theories
  11. Gravitational waves and Dark Energy
  12. Massive gravity
  13. Relaxation mechanisms

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