Cosmology is the study of the large-scale structure and history of the universe. In particular, it deals with subjects regarding its origin and evolution. It is studied by Astronomy, Philosophy, and Religion. See also cosmogony.
Due to the extreme conditions believed to be present during the first minutes of the universe's history, cosmologists often co-operate with scientists from areas such as Particle physics.
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Physical cosmology, as a branch of astrophysics, is the study of the large-scale structure of the universe and is concerned with fundamental questions about its formation and evolution.
Physical cosmology, as it is now understood, began with the twentieth century development of Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity and better astronomical observations of extremely distant objects.
Cosmology is unusual in physics for drawing heavily on the work of particle physicists' experiments, and research into phenomenology and even string theory; from astrophysicists; from general relativity research; and from plasma physics.
The University of Chicago is a leader in interdisciplinary research in theoretical astrophysics and cosmology, including connections to particle physics, general relativity, and computational physics.
We also have close ties to the Fermilab Theoretical Astrophysics Group, which focuses on both early- and late-universe cosmology, and the ASCI Flash Center at Chicago, which carries out numerical studies of astrophysical thermonuclear flashes.
On a parallel track, I am studying the cosmology of theories with large extra spatial dimensions, in which the particles and fields of the Standard Model are confined to a brane embedded in a higher-dimensional geometry.
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