Wayne Hu's Tutorials (original) (raw)

waynehu

Professor, Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics

University of Chicago

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• Introduction to the CMB
  A layman's introduction to the Cosmic Microwave Background circa 1996 before the discovery of the acoustic peaks and cosmic acceleration

• Intermediate level CMB tutorial
  Ringing in the New Cosmology: CMB acoustic peaks circa 2001 around the time of their discovery

• Cosmic Symphony
  A Scientific American article from 2004 updating the tutorials to the WMAP era

• CMB Polarization
  A pedagogical review of CMB polarization circa 1997 prior to its discovery by DASI

• Annual Reviews 2002
  A review of CMB physics circa 2002 prior to the WMAP results

• Gravitational Lensing
  Gravitational lensing of CMB temperature and polarization anisotropy creates B-modes from E-modes. Quadratic combinations of CMB fields can be used to reconstruct the intervening mass distribution.

• Cosmological Parameter Animations
  An animated look at how cosmological parameters change the CMB power spectrum

• CMB Power Prehistory
  A brief history of CMB power spectrum measurements in the decade during which the acoustic peaks were discovered and ending with the WMAP1 data in 2003

• Legacy CMB Tutorial
  An intermediate discussion of CMB physics circa 1996

• Wandering in the Background
  First principles exposition circa 1995, PhD Thesis, UC Berkeley

Large Scale Structure Tutorials

• Baryon Acoustic Oscillations
  Baryon acoustic oscillations and other effects in the matter power spectrum
• Cosmic Shear
  Gravitational lensing by the large scale structure of the universe of faint galaxies allows a tomographic reconstruction of structure formation
• Cluster Abundance
  Galaxy cluster counts test dark energy and modified gravity explanations of cosmic acceleration

Tutorials by Students

• Final Projects
  Final reading projects from cosmology courses
• N-body and Boltzmann Codes
  Numerical projects from cosmology courses