Announcement

The aim of this winter school is to provide an expository overview of observational and theoretical physical cosmology. The lectures will cover basic background and topics including dark energy theory and probes, baryon acoustic oscillations, cosmic microwave background, gravitational lensing, and galaxy clusters. Due to resource constraints, the participants are limited to 50 graduate or advanced undergraduate students from within Taiwan and internationally.

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Invited Lecturers

• Thomas Broadhurst (Ikerbasque, UPV Bilbao)
• Tzi-Hong Chiueh (National Taiwan University)
• Tamara Davis (University of Queensland)
• Eric Linder (UC Berkeley/LBNL/KASI)
• Andrew Jaffe (Imperial College)
• Peter Schneider (University of Bonn)
• Anja von der Linden (DARK Cosmology Centre/Stanford University)

Organizing Committee

• Lung-Yih Chiang
• Kin-Wang Ng
• Sherry Suyu
• Ronald Taam
• Proty Wu

E-mail: schooltiara.sinica.edu.tw

Registration Deadline: January 10, 2014