The Cosmic Microwave Background
Higgs Centre colloquium
The Cosmic Microwave Background
- Event time: 1:00pm until 2:00pm
- Event date: 22nd June 2018
- Speaker: Martin White (Berkeley National Laboratory)
- Location: Higgs Centre Seminar Room, Room 4305, James Clerk Maxwell Building (JCMB) James Clerk Maxwell Building Peter Guthrie Tait Road Edinburgh EH9 3FD GB
Event details
The coupling of baryons and photons by Thomson scattering in the early universe leads to a rich structure in the power spectra of the cosmic microwave background photons and the matter. The study of these "echoes of gravity" has revolutionized cosmology and allowed precise measurement of a host of important cosmological parameters. I will discuss how far we've come since the early detections of CMB anisotropies, what we've learned from the Planck mission, and what comes next.
About Higgs Centre colloquia
The Higgs Centre Colloquia are a fortnightly series of talks aimed at a wide-range of topical Theoretical Physics issues..