HEP Seminars

Cosmology from the microwave background

by Prof. Jo Dunkley (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 15 April 2015 from 13:30 to 14:30 (UTC)
at Oliver Lodge Laboratory ( 1-3-337 - 337 Seminar Room )
Description
The Cosmic Microwave Background continues to provide us with a wealth of information about the universe. I will show new results from the complete Planck satellite mission, which mapped the microwave anisotropy in both temperature and polarization from 2009-13, and describe other recent progress in the field. I will discuss the status of the LCDM cosmological model, which is now so well established but has significant features yet to explain. I will describe some future directions for investigating the physics of the very early universe, and of the cosmic dark sector including neutrinos.