The Cosmic Microwave Background (NATO Science Series C: (closed))

The lectures published in The Cosmic Microwave Background provide graduate students and young researchers with a survey of CMB radiation and an understanding of the latest research in this rapidly growing field. The lectures cover the anisotropy, spectrum and polarization of the CMB from both observational and theoretical viewpoints. The fundamental importance of the CMB is discussed in lectures on general relativity, inflation, structure formation, nucleosynthesis and primordial molecules. There is detailed coverage of statistical and data analysis techniques that are useful in CMB research.