Testing General Relativity with Cosmology

Higgs Centre colloquium

Testing General Relativity with Cosmology

  • Event time: 1:00pm
  • Event date: 27th September 2013
  • Speaker: Pedro Ferreira (University of Oxford)
  • Location: CSEC Lecture Theatre,

Event details

Abstract

With the successes of observational cosmology,  a new window has opened up on to gravitational physics. By carefuly measuring the morphology and growth of structure in the Universe it may be possible to constrain general relativity on a completely new range of scales. It also allows us to explore a plethora of modified gravity theories that have emerged as an attempt to explain the observational evidence for dark energy. I will discuss the challenges and approaches which are being taken in this new field.