Modern Cosmology

Abstract

I review in these lectures our present understanding of the origin and evolution of the universe, making emphasis on the most recent observations of the acceleration of the universe, the precise measurements of the microwave background anisotropies, and the formation of structure like galaxies and clusters of galaxies from tiny primodial fluctuations generated during inflation.

Comments: Plenary talk at XXXII International Meeting on Fundamental Physics, Alicante, March 1-5, 2004, 34 pages, 12 figures. Uses pr-imfp04.cls