The CLASS Tour: Kavli IPMU, Tokyo, 27-31 Octobre 2014

Tools for cosmology: the CLASS and Monte Python codes

by Benjamin Audren, Julien Lesgourgues, Thomas Tram

Overall program and schedule. Cosmological perturbation theory, CMB physics and their implementation in the CLASS code Lecture 1: general phylosophy of CLASS Lecture 2: overall style and structure of CLASS Lecture 3: basic running, basic input and output Lecture 4: plotting Lecture 5: indexing and error management Lecture 6: input module Lecture 7: classy, the python wrapper Lecture 8: background module Lecture 9: thermodynamics module Lecture 10: perturbation module Lecture 11: ncdm (non-cold dark matter) Lecture 12: primordial module Lecture 13: other modules Lecture 14a: automatic testing Lecture 14b: adding species Lecture 14c: prospects General topics git and Gitub repositories methods for ODEs (Ordinary Differential Equations) Parameter extraction with Monte Python Lecture 1: Bayesian parameter inference from data Lecture 2: basic running with Monte Python Lecture 3: basic analysis of Monte Python output Lecture 4: avanced options in Monte Python Lecture 5: structure of Monte Python Lecture 6: adding new likelihoods Exercises CLASS exercises solutions of all CLASS exercises (in traditional style) some of the solutions are available in the form of iPython notebooks on our docker website solution of Monte Python exercise (running with JLA data, posed in lecture 2) 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.