The links below are to the course lecture notes and readings. Many of the links go to the arXiv.org e-Print Archive, with downloadable versions of the papers.
The textbook readings are in: 
Peacock, John A. Cosmological Physics. Cambridge University Press, 1998. ISBN: 9780521422703.
| LEC # | TOPICS | READINGS |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Overview; Hubble Expansion | |
| 2 | General Relativity Overview | Peacock: Chapter 1 |
| 3 | Robertson-Walker Models | Peacock: Chapter 3.1-3.3 |
| 4 | Cosmography 1: H0t0, Angular Diameter Test | Peacock: Chapter 5 Lecture Note: Cosmography in a Robertson-Walker Universe (PDF) |
| 5 | Cosmography 2: SNe Ia | Peacock: Chapter 3.4, 5 High-z SN Team, Turner & Riess, Filippenko |
| 6 | Inflation 1 | Peacock: Chapter 11.1-11.3 |
| 7 | Inflation 2 | Peacock: Chapter 11.3-11.4 Liddle |
| 8 | Quantum Fluctuations from Inflation | Peacock: Chapter 11.5 |
| 9 | Radiation Era, Nucleosynthesis | Peacock: Chapter 9 Burles et al |
| 10 | Baryogenesis, CMB Basics | Peacock: Chapter 9.6, 9.4 Smoot |
| 11 | CMB Anisotropy 1 | Peacock: Chapter 12.3, 18 |
| 12 | CMB Anisotropy 2 | Peacock: Chapter 18 Lecture Note: Cosmic Microwave Background Anisotropy (PDF) |
| 13 | CMB Anisotropy 3 | Peacock: Chapter 18 Lecture Note: CMB Anisotropy Notes (PDF) |
| 14 | Gamma-ray Bursts | |
| 15 | High-z Galaxies and QSOs | Peacock: Chapter 13, 14 Madau, Abraham & van den Bergh |
| 16 | QSO Absorption Lines 1 | Peacock: Chapter 12.1-12.2 Madau, Becker et al |
| 17 | QSO Absorption Lines 2 | Peacock: Chapter 12.1-12.2 |
| 18 | Galaxy Clustering | Peacock: Chapter 16 |
| 19 | Newtonian Structure Formation Theory | Peacock: Chapter 15.1-15.4 Lecture Note: Cosmological Perturbation Theory and Structure Formation |
| 20 | Nonlinear Models | Peacock: Chapter 15.7-15.8 |
| 21 | Relativistic Perturbation Theory | Peacock: Chapter 15.5-15.6 |
| 22 | Structure Formation Models 1 | Peacock: Chapter 17.1-17.2 |
| 23 | Structure Formation Models 2 | Turner review |
| 24 | Galaxy Formation 1 | Peacock: Chapter 17.3-17.4 |
| 25 | Galaxy Formation 2 | Peacock: Chapter 17.5 N-body Simulations |
| 26 | Frontiers of Cosmology | Rees |