{"id":7557,"date":"2011-10-12T10:19:42","date_gmt":"2011-10-12T17:19:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/?p=7557"},"modified":"2011-10-12T10:19:42","modified_gmt":"2011-10-12T17:19:42","slug":"cern-lectures-on-cosmology-and-particle-physics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/12\/cern-lectures-on-cosmology-and-particle-physics\/","title":{"rendered":"CERN Lectures on Cosmology and Particle Physics"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s a blast from the somewhat-recent past: a set of five lectures I gave at CERN in 2005<\/a>. It looks like the quality of the recording is pretty good. The first lecture was an overview at a colloquium level; i.e. meant for physicists, but not necessarily with any knowledge of cosmology. The next four are blackboard talks with a greater focus; they try to bring people up to speed on the basic tools you need to think about modern early-universe cosmology.<\/p>\n

Obviously I’m not going to watch all five hours of these, so I’ll just have to hope that I’m relatively coherent throughout. (I do remember being a bit jet-lagged.) But I do notice that, while it was only a few years ago, I do appear relatively young and enthusiastic. Ah, the ravages of Time…<\/p>\n

Lecture One: Introduction to Cosmology<\/strong><\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=vUNtO2r_-eo<\/a><\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Lecture Two: Dark Matter<\/strong><\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Gq-lGX2PRrc<\/a><\/p>\n

Lecture Three: Dark Energy<\/strong><\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=cYVj2RhXxeU<\/a><\/p>\n

Lecture Four: Thermodynamics and the Early Universe<\/strong><\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=178mMnGvWs0<\/a><\/p>\n

Lecture Five: Inflation and Beyond<\/strong><\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=M1PeXaMqKto<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here’s a blast from the somewhat-recent past: a set of five lectures I gave at CERN in 2005. It looks like the quality of the recording is pretty good. The first lecture was an overview at a colloquium level; i.e. meant for physicists, but not necessarily with any knowledge of cosmology. The next four are […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7557\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}