Physics 564/Astro 524: Topics in Contemporary Cosmology

Lectures MW 11-12:20, PCTS Seminar Room

(note change in location)

Prof. David Spergel, dns@astro.princeton.edu
Room 113, Peyton Hall, x8-3589

Prof. Paul Steinhardt, steinh@princeton.edu
Rooms 404 and 214, Jadwin Hall, x8-1509

SYLLABUS: Latest Change: 3/17/11

RECOMMENDED BOOKS

Some Relevant Papers:

False vacuum decay

• S. Coleman, Fate of the False Vacuum (1977)

• S. Coleman & F. De Luccia, Gravitational Effects on and of vacuum decay (1979)

Finite temperature field theory

• L. Dolan & R. Jackiw, Symmetry Behavior at Finite Temperature (1974)

• S. Weinberg, Gauge and Global Symmetries at Finite Temperature (1974)