INTRODUCING GALAXIES
Cooling of a uniform cloud
Mass-to-light ratios and galaxy luminosity function
Angular momentum of galaxies, epoch of galaxy formation
Equilibria of collisionless systems, relaxation time, isothermal sphere

FOUNDATIONS OF COSMOLOGY
Friedmann models
The cosmological constant
Observations in cosmology
Thermal history of the universe

RECOMBINATION AND DECOUPLING
Primordial recombination
Temperature evolution after recombination Reionization

COSMOLOGICAL PERTURBATIONS
Evolution of dark matter and baryon fluctuations
Jeans and filtering scales

HIERARCHICAL FORMATION OF COLD DARK MATTER HALOS
Formation of non-linear objects
Press-Schechter formalism and the abundance of dark matter halos
Gas infall and cooling in dark matter halos

FIRST LIGHT
Molecular chemistry, fragmentation, and star formation
Properties of zero-metallicity stars
Black hole formation

RADIATIVE AND MECHANICAL FEEDBACK
Propagation of ionization fronts in the intergalactic medium
Hydrogen reionization Helium reionization Photoevaporation of
gaseous halos after reionization Propagation of supernova outflows
in the intergalactic medium Metal enrichment

OBSERVATIONAL PROBES OF THE REIONIZATION EPOCH
Cosmology with Lyman-alpha photons
21-cm tomography

QUASAR ABSORPTION SYSTEMS
Lyman-alpha forest Energy budget, heating and cooling processes,
non-equilibrium effects Equation of state of the intergalactic medium
Radiative transfer in a clumpy universe
Ultraviolet background radiation

PROPERTIES OF THE EXPECTED SOURCE POPULATION
Cosmic star formation history
Extragalactic background light
Quasi-stellar sources, radiative processes, accretion onto black holes
Gravitational lensing