António da Silva
Lecture 1
Introduction to LSS N-body / hydrodynamic simulation methods;
Lecture 2
Initial condition generators and N-body integrators;
Lecture 3
Postprocessing: group finders and non-linear power spectrum.
Noemi Frusciante
EFT Theory: formalism; EFT functions; EFT connections to specific models; stability conditions as priors
EFTCAMB: main features; model implementation: pure EFT, designer mapping, full mapping; requirements to install the code; how to install the code
Lecture 2
Structure of the code in details: description of the modules; how to implement a model; outputs
Exercises: run EFTCAMB with a built-in model; how to modify the code (the pure EFT case)
Diogo Castelão
Lecture 1
- Introduction to Boltzmann codes, CLASS (presentation slides)
- Contingency hour to help students with code installation if they were unable to finish at home
Lecture 2
- CLASS instalattion, running, output analysis, code modifications/exercices
Lecture 3
- MP presentation (slides), sampling methods
- Model testing and parameter estimation (exercises)
Ricardo Caldeira-Costa
Lecture 1
- Introduction to the Holographic Principle. (black holes, Brown & Henneaux, 't Hooft large N limit)
- General properties of AdS spaces and Einstein manifolds. (isometries, asymptotia, conformal compactness)
Lecture 2
- General properties of AdS spaces and Einstein manifolds (continuation).
- Dynamics of Einstein metrics and embedded hypersurfaces. (Gauss-Codazzi formalism, Fefferman-Graham solutions)
Lecture 3
- Classical Holographic Renormalization. (renormalized Brown-York
tensor, conservation laws)
- Matter fields in AdS backgrounds. (bulk-to-boundary propagators,
renormalization, conservation laws)
Lecture 4
- Lightning look at Conformal Field Theory. (representations,
correlators, Ward identities)
- The AdS/CFT prescription.
- Overview of String Theory. (strings, D-branes and Supergravity)
Lecture 5
- Overview of String Theory. (continuation)
- AdS/CFT from String Theory. (black branes, AdS5 and N=4 SYM, strings
as large N SYM)
- Radius/Energy Scale duality. (deformations of CFTs and RG flows)
- Survey of research topics in Holography. (AdS/CMT, entanglement,
cosmology)