CosmoCoffee

[Sarah Bridle]

I will lecture 16 lectures on cosmology to 3rd year physics & astronomy undergraduates and was thinking of working mainly from Malcolm Longair's Galaxy Formation book, with a few of the easiest problems from Padmanabhan's Cosmology and Astrophysics through Problems.
Is there another book that you would recommend even more strongly?
Anyone got any lecture notes lying around in electronic form(!)?

[Roberto Trotta]

i find Scott Dodelson's book "Modern cosmology", Academic Press (2003) excellent. It also has many ideas for exercises in it.

[Alessandro Melchiorri]

Introduction to Cosmology by Barbara Ryden is excellent !
The book by Scott Dodelson is also very good but a bit too advanced for undergraduates.

[Jochen Weller]

Hi Sarah

well I did not find any book to have the complete answer, so I used a combination of the lot.
It also depends if you need some GR intro or not.
What I was teaching last year was for part III math, so probably a bit to advanced for what
you need, but here is a link:
http://home.fnal.gov/~jweller/Teaching/physcos.html

(I had to exclude stuff like inflation and CMB because that was covered by other courses
on offer.)

[Sarah Bridle]

Thanks very much!

[Dimitra Atri]

By now, I am sure you would have prepared all your lectures, which means you have your lecture notes ready :)

Please provide me the link where I can download them. I am very new to Cosmology and am looking for materials from various sources.

[Sarah Bridle]

Hi Dimitra,
Thanks for your interest.
In the end I followed Liddle's textbook (An Introduction to Modern Cosmology), which is relatively concise and at exactly the right level for the course I was doing. The students liked the book.
For next year I am considering switching to the Open University book edited by Jones and Lambourne. I think lots of the cosmology bits were contributed by Andy Taylor. (A large reason for considering switching is because next year I will have to teach both *galaxies* and cosmology and this textbook does both. I haven't studied the book properly yet but it looks good, also it has more worked examples and is v pretty, if expensive.)
Also lots of cosmology lecturers pointed out the nice book by Barbara Ryden.
My lecture notes can be reached from the 3C36 link on http://www.sarahbridle.net/lectures in case you would find them useful,
Sarah

[Herve Dole]

Hello,

I also like this new book:
Extragalactic Astronomy and Cosmology. An introduction.
by Peter Schneider, 2006, Springer.

excellent. With updates including real and recent data.

Cheers

Herve

[Boud Roukema]

[Andrew Liddle]

[Edward Thomson]

I've used the Dodelson book before but found it to be quite advanced, in my opinion it isn't so suitable for a first-time Cosmology course; however, it was useful for providing an alternative voice when I was doing a masters level project with Andy Taylor.