Overview
Syllabus
Intro
How do we know about the universe?
Tracing the light of galaxies
The Legacy Survey of Space and Time LSST
Mapping dark matter with gravitational lensing
How do we know how far away galaxies are?
Using machine learning to explore galaxies
Detecting dark matter in the lab
The Universe on a table-top
Condensed matter experiment and cosmology
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Taught by
The Royal Institution