Colloquium Speaker Cora Dvorkin (Harvard) today, November 10, 2015 @ 4pm

[Patterson, Robin L.]

Please take note of Colloquium taking place today, Tuesday, November 10, 2015 at 4:00 PM in The Robert Smith Seminar Room. There will be a reception in the Atrium at 3:45PM. Details concerning the talk are as follows:

Speaker:              Cora Dvorkin (Harvard)
Date:                     Tuesday, November 10, 2015
Time:                     4:00 PM
Place:                    1080 Physics Research Building, The Robert Smith Seminar Room
Title:                     Deciphering the Early Universe: Connecting Theory with Observations


Abstract: Cosmological observations have provided us with answers to age-old questions, involving the age, geometry, and composition of the universe. However, there are profound questions that still remain unanswered. The origin of the small anisotropies that later grew into the stars and galaxies that we see today is still unknown.  In this talk, I will explain how we can use measurements of the Cosmic Microwave Background, which was last scattered when the universe was 380,000 years old, to reconstruct the detailed physics of much earlier epochs, when the universe was only a tiny fraction of a second old.  I will also discuss the potential of current and upcoming measurements of the large-scale structure of the universe to further constrain the physics underlying inflation.

The website for the colloquium is https://physics.osu.edu/physics-colloquium-schedule.





Robin
[The Ohio State University]
Robin Patterson
Undergraduate Program, Colloquium and Seminar Coordinator
Department of Physics
1040K Physics Research Building, 191 W. Woodruff Avenue, Columbus, OH 43210
(614) 292-8523 Office     (614) 292-7557 Fax
patterson.716 at osu.edu<mailto:patterson.716 at osu.edu> osu.edu<http://osu.edu/>

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