Lecture 1

10:00am October 14, Tuesday, 2014

The inflationary Paradigm: basic challenges and solution.

 

Lecture 2

10:00am October 16, Thursday, 2014

Origin of cosmological scalar perturbations in inflation Bunch-Davis vacuum, stretching of zero-point fluctuation modes, quantum-classical transition.

 

Lecture 3

10:00am October 21, Tuesday, 2014

Tensor perturbations, 3-pt functions, alternatives.

 

Lecture 4

10:00am October 23, Thursday, 2014

Observational signatures and status: scalar CMB T modes, tensor CMB B modes, consistency relation, bi-spectrum.