Introduction to Cosmology in 4 lectures

Lecture 1 From the beginning to the FRW metric

Lecture 2 From the universe's composition to the Friedmann Equations -via the dark matter (I have skiped the distances slides towards the end)

Lecture 3 cosmological perturbations and introduction to the CMB

Lecture 4 Accelerated expansion and outlook for the future


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Material for "aficionados"

WMAP portal

Cosmological parameters plotter links also to the analysis output called Cosmological parameters table

icosmo

CAMB on-line compute your own theoretical CMB and dark matter power spectrum

LAMBDA portal

Supernovae data challenge: see for yourself the signature of the accelerating universe

Sloan Digital Sky Survey home page

Galaxy Zoo project

Cosmology @ home portal

Wayne Hu cosmology pages

Ned Wright cosmology tutorial