CL School Material (2022)

Here we compile all the presentation slides, notes, and other materials prepared for the CosmoLattice School 2022.

Main lectures

• Lecture 1: Welcome to the Lattice!.
  By Daniel G. Figueroa.
  Slides: [pdf]

• Lecture 2a: Introduction to Inflation and post-inflationary dynamics.
  By Francisco Torrenti.
  Slides: [pdf]

• Lecture 2b: Primer on Lattice simulations: phi^4 in an expanding background.
  By Francisco Torrenti.
  Slides: [pdf].
  Notebooks: [mathematica] (F. Torrenti), [python] (A. Florio)

• Lecture 3: Evolution algorithms for ordinary differential equations.
  By Adrien Florio.
  Slides: [pdf].
  Scripts: [TimeEvolution.jl], [waveeq.jl]

• Lecture 4: Lattice formulation of interacting scalar fields in an expanding background.
  By Daniel G. Figueroa.
  Slides: [pdf]
  

• Lecture 5: Lattice simulations of U(1) gauge theories.
  By Francisco Torrenti.
  Slides: [pdf]
  

• Lecture 6: Lattice simulations of SU(2) gauge theories.
  By Adrien Florio.
  Slides: [pdf-part1], [pdf-part2]
  

• Lesson 7: Parallelization techniques in CosmoLattice.
  By Adrien Florio.
  Slides: [pdf-part1], [pdf-part2]
  

Topical lectures

• Topical 1: Non-linear dynamics of non-minimally coupled scalar fields.
  By Toby Opferkuch and Ben Stefanek.
  Slides: [pdf-part1], [pdf-part2]
  

• Topical 2: Creation and evolution of primordial gravitational waves.
  By Jorge Baeza-Ballesteros and Nicolas Loayza.
  Slides: [pdf]
  

• Topical 3: Non-linear dynamics of axion inflation.
  By Joanes Lizarraga and Ander Urio.
  Slides: [pdf]

• Topical 4: Plotting 3D data with CosmoLattice.
  By Kenneth Marschall.
  Slides: [pdf]
  Model and input files: [tanh2hdf5.h], [tanh2hdf5.in] Notebook: [mathematica]