Some Interesting Review Articles

• Collections
  
  
  • Superstringtheory.com
  • Spires
  • Living Reviews in Relativity
  • Level 5: A Knowledgebase for Extragalactic Astronomy and Cosmology
  • Graduate Level Course Notes and Tutorials Related to General Relativity
  • The Net Advance of Physics
  
  
• Cosmology
  
  
  • "The Cosmological Parameters 2005," Ofer Lahav and Andrew R Liddle, astro-ph/0601168
  • "TASI Lectures: Cosmology for string theorists," Sean Carroll, hep-th/0011110
  • "TASI Lectures: Introduction to Cosmology," Mark Trodden and Sean Carroll, astro-ph/0401547
  • "Introduction to Cosmology," David H Lyth, astro-ph/9312022
  • "Cosmology at the Millennium," Michael Turner and J. Anthony Tyson, astro-ph/9901113
  • "Physics at the Interface of Particle Physics and Cosmology," R.D. Peccei, hep-ph/9808418
  • "Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology (Summary of the Snowmass 2001 P4 Working Group)," Daniel S. Akerib, Sean M. Carroll, Marc Kamionkowski, and Steven Ritz, hep-ph/0201178
  • "TASI Lectures on Astroparticle Physics," Keith A. Olive, astro-ph/0503065
  • "Primordial Nucleosynthesis: Theory and Observations," Keith A. Olive, Gary Steigman, Terry P. Walker, astro-ph/9905320
  • "Big-bang Nucleosynthesis Enters the Precision Era," David N. Schramm and Michael S. Turner , astro-ph/9706069
  • "Gravitational Wave Experiments and Early Universe Cosmology," Michele Maggiore, gr-qc/9909001
  • "Electroweak Baryogenesis," Mark Trodden, hep-ph/9803479
  • "Recent Progress in Baryogenesis," Antonio Riotto and Mark Trodden, hep-ph/9901362
  • "Big Bang nucleosynthesis and physics beyond the Standard Model," Subir Sarkar, hep-ph/9602260
  • "Cosmic strings," M.B. Hindmarsh and T.W.B. Kibble, hep-ph/9411342
  • "Superstring Cosmology," James E. Lidsey, David Wands, and E.J. Copeland, hep-th/9909061
  
  
• Inflation
  
  
  • "An introduction to cosmological inflation," Andrew R Liddle, astro-ph/9901124
  • "An Exposition on Inflationary Cosmology," Scott Watson, astro-ph/0005003
  • "Inflation and the Theory of Cosmological Perturbations," Antonio Riotto, hep-ph/0210162
  • "Inflation, quantum fluctuations and cosmological perturbations," David Langlois, hep-th/0405053
  • "Inflationary Cosmology: Progress and Problems," Robert Brandenberger, hep-ph/9910410
  • "Particle Physics Models of Inflation and the Cosmological Density Perturbation," David H. Lyth and Antonio Riotto, hep-ph/9807278
  • "Inflation and Eternal Inflation," Alan H. Guth, astro-ph/0002156
  • "From the Big Bang Theory to the Theory of a Stationary Universe," Andrei Linde, Dmitri Linde, Arthur Mezhlumian, gr-qc/9306035
  • "Reconstructing the Inflaton Potential --- an Overview," James E Lidsey, Andrew R Liddle, Edward W Kolb, Edmund J Copeland, Tiago Barreiro, Mark Abney, astro-ph/9508078
  
  
• CMB and Cosmological Perturbations
  
  
  • "Lecture Notes on CMB Theory," Wayne Hu, arxiv:0802.3688
  • "The Cosmic Microwave Background and Particle Physics," Marc Kamionkowski and Arthur Kosowsky, astro-ph/9904108
  • "The Cosmic Microwave Background," Arthur Kosowsky, astro-ph/0102402
  • "The Standard Cosmological Model and CMB Anisotropies," James G. Bartlett, astro-ph/9903260
  • "The Cold Dark Matter Density Perturbation," Andrew R Liddle and David H Lyth, astro-ph/9303019
  • "A CMB Polarization Primer", W. Hu and M. White, astro-ph/9706147
  • "Cosmic Microwave Background Anisotropies," W. Hu and S. Dodelson, astro-ph/0110414
  • "The theory of CMB anisotropies," Ruth Durrer, astro-ph/0109522
  
  
• Dark Energy and the Cosmological Constant
  
  
  • "The Cosmological Constant," Sean Carroll, astro-ph/0004075
  • "Why is the Universe Accelerating?", Sean Carroll, astro-ph/0310342
  • "Dynamics of dark energy," Edmund J. Copeland, M. Sami, and Shinji Tsujikawa, hep-th/0603057
  • "The Cosmological Constant and Dark Energy," P. J. E. Peebles and Bharat Ratra, astro-ph/0207347
  • "The Case for a Positive Cosmological Lambda-term," Varun Sahni and Alexei Starobinsky, astro-ph/9904398
  • "Quintessential Cosmology and Cosmic Acceleration," Paul Steinhardt, postscript
  • "Cosmological constant vs. quintessence," Pierre Binetruy, hep-ph/0005037
  • "The Cosmological Constant From The Viewpoint Of String Theory," Edward Witten, hep-ph/0002297
  • "The cosmological constant problem," Steven Weinberg, Rev Mod Phys.
  • "Categorizing Different Approaches to the Cosmological Constant Problem," Stefan Nobbenhuis, gr-qc/0411093
  
  
• Dark Matter
  
  
  • "TASI Lectures on Dark Matter," Keith Olive, astro-ph/0301505
  • "Particle Dark Matter," G. Bertone, D. Hooper, and J. Silk, hep-ph/0404175
  • "Self-Interacting Dark Matter," Benjamin D. Wandelt, Romeel Dave, Glennys R. Farrar, Patrick C. McGuire, David N. Spergel, Paul J. Steinhardt, astro-ph/0006344
  • "Does Dark Matter Exist?," J. A. Sellwood and A. Kosowsky, astro-ph/0009074
  • "Supersymmetric Dark Matter," G. Jungman, M. Kamionkowski, and K. Griest, pdf
  
  
• Gravity
  
  
  • "A no-nonsense introduction to general relativity," Sean Carroll, postscript, pdf.
  • "Gravitation, experiment and cosmology," Thibault Damour, gr-qc/9606079
  • "Gravitation and Experiment," Thibault Damour, gr-qc/9711061
  • "The Confrontation between General Relativity and Exeriment." Clifford Will, gr-qc/0103036
  • "Tests of the Gravitational Inverse-Square Law," E.G. Adelberger, B.R. Heckel, and A.E. Nelson, hep-ph/0307284
  • "New physics and astronomy with the new gravitational-wave observatories," Scott A. Hughes, Szabolcs Marka, Peter L. Bender, and Craig J. Hogan , astro-ph/0110349
  • "TASI Lectures on Gravitational Waves from the Early Universe," Alessandra Buonanno, gr-qc/0303085
  • "Quantum Field Theory in Curved Spacetime," L.H. Ford, gr-qc/9707062
  • "The fundamental constants and their variation: observational status and theoretical motivations," Jean-Philippe Uzan, hep-ph/0205340
  
  
• Black Holes (Thermodynamics etc.)
  
  
  • "Black Holes," P.K. Townsend, gr-qc/9707012
  • "An Introduction to Black Hole Evaporation," J. Traschen, gr-qc/0010055
  • "Introductory Lectures on Black Hole Thermodynamics," T.A. Jacobson, postscript
  • "The Thermodynamics of Black Holes," Robert M. Wald, gr-qc/9912119
  • "TASI lectures on black holes in string theory," Amanda W. Peet, hep-th/0008241
  
  
• Field Theory/Particle Physics
  
  
  • "Fields," Warren Siegel, web page, pdf
  • "Symmetries of the Standard Model," Scott Willenbrock, hep-ph/0410370
  • "Beyond the Standard Model," Michael E. Peskin, hep-ph/9705479
  • "Collider Experiment: Strings, Branes and Extra Dimensions", Maria Spiropulu, hep-ex/0305019
  
  
• Supersymmetry
  
  
  • "A Supersymmetry Primer," Stephen P. Martin, hep-ph/9709356
  • "Introduction to Supersymmetry," Joseph D. Lykken, hep-th/9612114
  • "Twenty Open Questions in Supersymmetric Particle Physics," Keith R. Dienes and Christopher Kolda, hep-ph/9712322
  • "Introduction to S-Duality in N=2 Supersymmetric Gauge Theory. (A pedagogical review of the work of Seiberg and Witten)," L. Alvarez-Gaume and S.F. Hassan, hep-th/9701069
  • "Magnetic Monopoles, Duality, and Supersymmetry," Jeffrey A. Harvey, hep-th/9603086
  • "Supersymmetry Phenomenology With a Broad Brush," Michael Dine, hep-ph/9612389
  • "Supersymmetry Breaking," Yael Shadmi, hep-th/0601076
  • "Lectures on Supersmmetry Breaking," Kenneth Intrilligator and Nathan Seiberg, hep-ph/0702069
  
  
• String/M-theory
  
  
  • "Introduction to String Theory," Thomas Mohaupt, hep-th/0207249
  • "String Duality--A Colloquium," Joseph Polchinski, hep-th/9607050
  • "M Theory and Cosmology," Tom Banks, hep-th/9911067
  • "String/M-branes for Relativists," Donald Marolf, gr-qc/9908045
  • "String Theory, Supersymmetry, Unification, and All That," John Schwarz and Nathan Seiberg, hep-th/9803179
  • "The holographic principle," Raphael Bousso, hep-th/0203101
  • "Four Lectures on M-theory," P.K. Townsend, hep-th/9612121
  • "Large N Field Theories, String Theory and Gravity," O. Aharony, S.S. Gubser, J. Maldacena, H. Ooguri, Y. Oz, hep-th/9905111
  • "TASI Lectures on M Theory Phenomenology," Michael Dine, hep-th/0003175
  • "TASI Lectures: Introduction to the AdS/CFT Correspondence," Igor R. Klebanov, hep-th/0009139
  
  
• Branes and Extra Dimensions
  
  
  • "Branes for Relativists," Jiro Soda, gr-qc/0108046
  • "D-Brane Primer," Clifford V. Johnson, hep-th/0007170
  • "TASI Lectures on D-Branes," Joseph Polchinski, hep-th/9611050
  • "Large and infinite extra dimensions," V. A. Rubakov, hep-ph/0104152
  • "Brane worlds," Rainer Dick, hep-th/0105320
  • "Phenomenology, Astrophysics and Cosmology of Theories with Sub-Millimeter Dimensions and TeV Scale Quantum Gravity," Nima Arkani-Hamed, Savas Dimopoulos, and Gia Dvali, hep-ph/9807344
  • "Particle Physics Probes Of Extra Spacetime Dimensions," JoAnne Hewett and Maria Spiropulu, hep-ph/0205106
  • "Brane cosmology: an introduction," David Langlois, hep-th/0209261
  • "Brane World Cosmology," Philippe Brax, Carsten van de Bruck, Anne-Christine Davis, hep-th/0404011
  
  
• Math
  
  
  • "An Elementary Introduction to Groups and Representations," Brian C. Hall, math-ph/0005032
  • "Semi-Simple Lie Algebras and their Representations," Robert Cahn, postscript (via html)
  • "Notes on Group Theory and Representations", Gerard Jungman pdf