Inflation Course:

Prerequisites will be as follows:

1. General relativity.

2. Background cosmology (FRW line element, evolution of scale factor in different cases, cosmological parameters, basic thermal history)

3. Quantization of a free scalar field

Useful references are:

Texts:

1. S. Dodelson, Modern Cosmology (Academic Press, San Diego, U.S.A., 2003).

2. V. F. Mukhanov, Physical Foundations of Cosmology (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, England, 2005).

3. S. Weinberg, Cosmology (Oxford University Press, Oxford, England, 2008).

4. D. H. Lyth and A. R. Liddle, The Primordial Density Perturbation (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, England, 2009).

Reviews:

1. V. F. Mukhanov, H. A. Feldman and R. H. Brandenberger, Phys. Rep. 215, 203 (1992).

2. A. Riotto, arXiv:hep-ph/0210162.

3. J. Martin, arXiv:hep-th/0406011.

4. B. Bassett, S. Tsujikawa and D. Wands, Rev. Mod. Phys. 78, 537 (2006).

5. L. Sriramkumar, Curr. Sci. 97, 868 (2009) [arXiv:0904.4584].

Black Hole:

Knowledge of General Relativity and Schwarzschild solution.

Reference:

Large Scale Structure of Space-Time, by Hawking and Ellis, Cambridge University Press

LHC Course:

Familiarity with Standard model of particle physics

References:

1. V. D.Barger and R.J.N.Phillips : Collider Physics

2. J.F.Gunion, H.E.Haber, G. Kane and S. Dawson : The Higgs Hunter's Guide

3. M.Drees, R.M.Godbole and P. Roy : Theory & Phenomenology of Sparticles