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Table of Contents

• PARAMETRIZING THE UNIVERSE
• The global description of the Universe
• Neutrinos
• Inflation and perturbations
• The standard cosmological model
• Derived parameters
• EXTENSIONS TO THE STANDARD MODEL
• More general perturbations
• Dark matter properties
• Dark energy
• Complex ionization history
• Varying `constants'
• Cosmic topology
• PROBES
• Direct measures of the Hubble constant
• Supernovae as cosmological probes
• Cosmic microwave background
• Galaxy clustering
• Clusters of galaxies
• Clustering in the inter-galactic medium
• Gravitational lensing
• Peculiar velocities
• BRINGING OBSERVATIONS TOGETHER
• OUTLOOK FOR THE FUTURE
• REFERENCES