ASTR 4433: Introduction to Cosmology

An introduction to theoretical and observational cosmology aimed at interested science and engineering majors.  Topics include an introduction to general relativity as applied to the cosmos; the cosmic expansion history and how it relates to the nature of matter in the universe; processes in the early universe; how galaxies and clusters of galaxies form; current and prospective cosmological surveys of galaxies, galaxy clusters, gravitational lensing, and the cosmic microwave background.  The material is at a less technial level than the graduate cosmology course Astro. 6599.