Resources

LAMBDA collects educational materials from instructors willing to share with the community at large. If you have something you would like to contribute, please contact us!

Some of these resources make use of LAMBDA's online CAMB interface to generate simulated power spectra and maps from a set of cosmological parameters.

  • ACT CMB analysis school Python notebooks
    • A course written as a series of Python notebooks intended to familiarize those new to the CMB with the basic concepts of its simulation and analysis. Notebooks are written by Jeff McMahon, Renee Hlozek, Mat Madhavacheril, Sigurd Naess, and Alex Van Engelen.

  • Labs and Simulations contributed by Dr. Daniel M Smith Jr., South Carolina State University
    • LABS are a combination of PDF files and simulations that require Mathmatica or the Mathmatica Player.
    • SIMULATIONS are animated GIF or require the Free Wolfram CDF Player

  • Class assignments contributed by Dr. Jodi Christiansen, California Polytechnic State University
    • Computing the Expansion History of the Universe: PDF
    • Exploring the Cosmic Microwave Background with CAMB: PDF, MS Word 2007

  • Contributed by the CLASS Science Team
    Cosmology in the Classroom
    • High school classroom activities developed by teachers, education resource specialists, and researchers with the Cosmology Large Angular Scale Surveyor.
    • Activities are hands-on and inquiry-driven, in alignment with the Next Generation Science Standards.

  • CosmoSlider: An educational tool for cosmology
    • A visualization tool that enables real-time exploration of CMB power spectra as the user varies multiple cosmological parameters simultaneously using sliders. The user may display either the TT, TE, EE or φφ power spectrum. CosmoSlider is available both as an iOS application and as a web-based tool: LAMBDA provides the link to the web tool. For further information, see Nygaard, Hannestad and Tram (2026).

    • Build a Universe game interface.

  • Contributed by LAMBDA
    • A graphical teaching tool showing how the power spectrum varies as CMB parameters are adjusted. This was originally contributed by WMAP and has been rebuilt using modern technology by LAMBDA.



In addition, the following web sites provide discussions of basic CMB theory and analysis:

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