20 September 2016
Physics Department, University of Rome Tor Vergata
Europe/Rome timezone

Testing Inflation with the CMB: Past and Future

20 Sept 2016, 10:50
45m
Grassano Room (Physics Department, University of Rome Tor Vergata)

Grassano Room

Physics Department, University of Rome Tor Vergata

Via della Ricerca Scientifica 1, 00133 Rome, Italy

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.

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