Cosmological Results from Planck 2013 and Beyond
Higgs Centre colloquium
Cosmological Results from Planck 2013 and Beyond
- Event time: 1:00pm
- Event date: 21st June 2013
- Speaker: Martin White (Berkeley National Laboratory)
- Location: CSEC Lecture Theatre, James Clerk Maxwell Building (JCMB) James Clerk Maxwell Building Peter Guthrie Tait Road Edinburgh EH9 3FD GB
Event details
Abstract
The European Space Agency’s Planck satellite was launched on 14 May 2009, and has been surveying the sky stably and continuously since 13 August 2009. In March of 2013, ESA and the Planck Collaboration released to the public a first complete set data products. I will review some of the highlights of this release for cosmology and early-Universe physics, and make contact with other large sky surveys currently underway. The combination of surveys allows us to see "cosmic sound" across 14 billion years of cosmic history and raises fundamental questions about the Universe in which we live.
About Higgs Centre colloquia
The Higgs Centre Colloquia are a fortnightly series of talks aimed at a wide-range of topical Theoretical Physics issues..