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Theoretical Physics Colloquium
Critical Tests of Theory of the Early Universe using the Cosmic Microwave Background
by Prof. Eiichiro Komatsu (University of Texas, Austin)
Wednesday, November 30, 2011
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at Colaba Campus ( AG69 )
at Colaba Campus ( AG69 )
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The Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB), the fossil light of the Big Bang, is the oldest light that one can ever hope to observe in our Universe. The CMB provides us with a direct image of the Universe when it was still an "infant" - 380,000 years old - and has enabled us to obtain a wealth of cosmological information, such as the composition, age, geometry, and history of the Universe. Yet, can we go further and learn about the primordial universe, when it was much younger than 380,000 years old, perhaps as young as a tiny fraction of a second? If so, this gives us a hope to test competing theories about the origin of the Universe at ultra high energies. In this talk I review the present status and future prospects on our quest to probe the physical condition of the very early Universe.
Speaker Profile: Eiichiro Komatsu is one of the leading cosmologists at present. He continues to be core member of the WMAP team and he has been much recognized for his work on CMB Physics. He is, presently, the Director of the Texas Cosmology Centre and a leader of the HETDEX-Dark Energy Survey. Among his many awards is "The International Union of Pure and Applied Physics Young Physicist's Prize" and the "Nishinomiya-Yukawa Memorial Prize" . In 2012, he will be joining as one of the youngest ever Director of the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics in Munich. |
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