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, James Clerk Maxwell Building (JCMB) James Clerk Maxwell Building Peter Guthrie Tait Road Edinburgh EH9 3FD GB
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.
About Higgs Centre colloquia
The Higgs Centre Colloquia are a fortnightly series of talks aimed at a wide-range of topical Theoretical Physics issues..