Tuesday 10th

12:00-13:30 Massimo Pietroni (INFN Padova) Basic cosmology primer. Dark Energy (DE) and Dark Matter: observational evidences. DE observables. Baryonic Acoustic Oscillations.
15:00-16:30 Jussi Valiviita (U. Portsmouth) CMB&matter fluctuations, Angular power spectrum, and Boltzmann equations.

Wednesday 11th

10:30-11:30 Massimo Pietroni (INFN Padova) Models of DE and their predictions.
12:00-13:30 Jussi Valiviita (U. Portsmouth) Installing CosmoMC - a Fortran program to constrain cosmological parameters with various CMB and LSS data sets.
15:30-16:30 Jussi Valiviita (U. Portsmouth) Camb - a Fortran program for solving all the above given the cosmological parameters (particle density parameters, and primordial perturbation spectrum).

Thursday 12th

10:30-11:30 Massimo Pietroni (INFN Padova) Cosmological perturbations in DE models: -linear theory, - beyond linear theory.
15:30-16:30 Jussi Valiviita (U. Portsmouth) Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) method for likelihood analysis - (dis)advantages and dangers.
17:00-18:00 Massimo Pietroni (INFN Padova) Questions session.

Friday 13th

10:30-11:30 Massimo Pietroni (INFN Padova) Resummation methods: Renormalized Perturbation Theory, Renormalization Group(s).
13:00-15:00 Led by Carlos Peña Garay Friday lunch (short research presentations).
15:30-16:30 Jussi Valiviita (U. Portsmouth) Running CosmoMC and analyzing the results.