Speaker
Dr
Martin Bucher
(APC Paris 7, CNRS and PLANCK)
Description
Precise observations of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) have substantially narrowed the field of viable models for the early universe and for generating the seeds of large-scale structure. I will review the constraints imposed on models of inflation by current CMB observations and survey the future constraints to be anticipated, in particular through the search for B-mode polarization of the CMB.
