Course

Bouncing cosmology 1: intro,overview, the ekpyrotic phase.

Temporal fluctuations of observables; entanglement typicality

de Broglie-Bohm Theory

Power spectrum for single field slow roll inflation; Lyth bound

Equilibration and thermalization in quantum systems

Everett/Many Worlds 1

Single field slow roll inflation, fluctuations: toy model and big picture

The toric code: emergence of bosons and fermions; behaviour of the reduced system

The Classical Limit of Quantum Theory

Inflation: puzzles, how much do we need, conditions

The toric code: introduction; the toric code as a theory of strings

Bell's Theorem and the Colbeck-Renner theorem