The Quantum Universe in the Planck Era and Beyond

by Prof. J. Richard Bond (Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics)

Tuesday 16 Apr 2019, 16:00 → 18:00 Europe/Rome

Aula Coonversi (Dipartimento di Fisica - Ed. G.Marconi)

Over the past 25 years, cosmology became a precision science that established our standard model, full of dark energy and matter, and ordinary matter. I will overview the CMB golden age,from the 80s to our future ambitions. But it is the Planck maps of the early Universe that I will concentrate on, revealing a remarkable simplicity in the quantum fluctuations that create the cosmic web of galaxies. This a tale of 4 Plancks: the satellite, Planck's constant for quantum fluctuations and for their Fokker-Planck quantum diffusion, all near the Planck energy-scale.
In the future, we are in quest of "beyond the standard model" physics, in more complex density-structures and in gravity-wave fluctuations