The CLASS Tour: King's & UCL, London, 11-16 May 2014

London Hack Days on the CMB, CLASS and Monte Python

by Benjamin Audren, Julien Lesgourgues, Thomas Tram, Jesus Torrado

Cosmological perturbation theory, CMB physics and their implementation in the CLASS code Lecture 1: General introduction to CLASS (motivations, overall structure, basic input and output, principle of the input module) Lecture 2: Homogeneous Cosmology and the background module Lecture 3: Thermal History and the thermodynamics module Lecture 4: Cosmological Perturbations and the perturbation module Lecture 5: Initial Conditions and the primordial module Lecture 6: Non-linear corrections and the nonlinear module. Harmonic transfer Functions and the transfer module Lecture 7: The spectra, lensing and output modules. Propspects and bibliography Focus on specialised topics in CLASS Lecture I: Advanced numerical numerical methods Lecture II: Implementation of massive neutrinos or other types of non-cold dark matter Lecture III: Implementation of polarisation and of spatial curvature Lecture IV: Implementation of non-trivial species (decaying dark matter, quintessence, ...) Lectures by Benjamin Audren: Parameter extraction and Monte Python Lecture A: Parameter inference from data Lecture B: Introduction to Monte Python Lecture C: Basic usage of Monte Python Lecture D: Avanced usage of Monte Python Lecture E: Using Multinest in Monte Python Lecture F: Introduction to git repositories and automatic testing Big thanks to the organisers of this workshop and of the other CLASS Tour workshops, in particular: Axel De La Macorra, Ivan Rodriguez, Eiichiro Komatsu, Jochen Weller, Dani Figueroa, Ruth Durrer, Eugen Lim, Hiranya Peiris, Licia Verde, Antonio Cuesta.