The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has available online
as part of the free MITOpenCourseWare project, MIT Course 8.286
"
The Early Universe" where the lecturer is none other than
Prof. Alan Guth.
Presented in late 2013, the course includes
23 videos of
Guth lecturing. Each video is about 75 minutes long.
As an example of some of the material Guth covers :-
In videos 1 & 2, Guth gets the ball rolling in two lectures entitled
"Inflationary Cosmology: Is Our Universe Part of a Multiverse?"
In lecture 4, the topic is "The Kinematics of the Homogeneous Expanding Universe".
Lectures 15 through 17 cover "Black-Body Radiation and the Early History of the Universe".
Lecture 22 covers "The Higgs Field and the Cosmological Magnetic Monopole Problem".
Lecture 23 covers "Inflation".
Lecture slides in PDF format and other course material is also available
for free download.
Course web site here :-
http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/physics/8...rse-fall-2013/
Video lectures :-
http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/physics/8...ideo-lectures/
The ability to sit in your own living room and watch a leading
exponent in the field such as Guth lecture at none other than MIT
represents the power of the Internet and global communications at its finest.
Thank you MIT.
The Early Universe - MIT Open Courseware - Alan Guth 2013 video lectures
