The Cosmic Microwave Background

Part I. Mini Courses

1. Physics of the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation
David Wands, Oliver F. Piattella, Luciano Casarini

2. The Observational Status of Cosmic Inflation After Planck
Jérôme Martin

3. Lecture Notes on Non-Gaussianity
Christian T. Byrnes

4. Problems of CMB Data Registration and Analysis
O. V. Verkhodanov

5. Cosmic Microwave Background Observations
Rolando Dünner

Part II. Seminars

6. Physics of Baryons
J. A. Freitas Pacheco

7. Peculiar Velocity Effects on the CMB
Miguel Quartin

8. Warm Inflation, Cosmological Fluctuations and Constraints from Planck
Rudnei O. Ramos

9. A Brief History of the Brazilian Participation in CMB Measurements
Thyrso Villela

Part III. Communications

10. On Dark Degeneracy
Saulo Carneiro, Humberto A. Borges

11. The Quantum-to-Classical Transition of Primordial Cosmological Perturbations
Nelson Pinto-Neto

12. A Path-Integral Approach to CMB
Paulo H. Reimberg

13. Geometric Scalar Theory of Gravity
Júnior Diniz Toniato

Keywords: Physics, Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology