1st Edition
Introduction to Cosmic Inflation and Dark Energy
Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. Dynamics and Content of the Universe
Chapter 3. History of the Universe
Chapter 4. Inflation basics
Chapter 5. CMB Primordial Anisotropy and Structure in the Universe
Chapter 6. The Inflationary Paradigm
Chapter 7. Models of Inflation
Chapter 8. beyond Slow-roll Inflation
Chapter 9. Dynamic Dark Energy
Chapter 10. Epilogue
Biography
Konstantinos Dimopoulos, presently Reader in Physics at Lancaster University, obtained his undergraduate degree in Physics from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in 1992. He continued his studies in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics (DAMTP) of the University of Cambridge (Darwin College), where he obtained the Certificate of Advanced Study in Mathematics in 1994 and his PhD in Particle Cosmology in 1998 under the supervision of Professor A.C. Davis. Dr. Dimopoulos had several post-doctoral appointments in the framework of EU Research Training Network Programmes, in the Instituto de Fisica Corpuscular (IFIC) in Valencia, Spain (1999–2001) and in the Physics Department of Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK (2001–2003). In 2003, he obtained a four-year Research Associate Fellowship in the Institute of Nuclear Physics of the National Centre for Scientific Research ‘Demokritos’ in Athens, Greece, which he interrupted in 2004 when he was offered a staff position in the Physics Department of Lancaster University. His research interests centre around the physics of the very early Universe, in particular on particle cosmology, cosmic inflation, quintessential inflation, and cosmic vector fields.
