LECTURE NOTES:

preliminary version

 

 

PART 1: THE QUANTUM ORIGIN OF LARGE-SCALE STRUCTURE

1. Classical Dynamics

2. Quantum Fluctuations

3. From Vacuum Fluctuations to CMB Observables

4. Reheating

5. Primordial Non-Gaussianity

 

PART 2: THE PHYSICS OF INFLATION

6. Effective Field Theory

7. Naturalness and UV-Sensitivity

8. Goldstone Physics

9. Supersymmetry

10. Signatures of SUSY

11. Inflation in String Theory

 

Please email me questions and/or corrections:

DBAUMANN@DAMTP.CAM.AC.UK