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May
18
2016

Charles Bennett: The Standard Model of Cosmology

When: Wednesday, May 18, 2016
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM CT

Where: Technological Institute, F160, 2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208 map it

Audience: Faculty/Staff - Student - Post Docs/Docs - Graduate Students

Contact: Liz Lwanga   13645

Group: Physics and Astronomy Radio Astronomy Seminars

Category: Academic

Description:

Title: The Standard Model of Cosmology

Speaker: Charles Bennett, Johns Hopkins University

Abstract: The Standard Model of Cosmology appears to be simple, but it can also be viewed as strange and not well-understood. After all we have learned during the current “golden age of cosmology” we are confronted by significant questions. I will briefly review the development of the Standard Model of Cosmology with a concentration of the role of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) in probing the universe. I will discuss current observational constraints on the model, and address consistency both between the sets of measurements and between measurements and the Model. After discussing successes and challenges of the Standard Model, I will look forward to what we can hope to learn from measurements coming in the near future.

 

 

Keywords: Physics, Astronomy

 

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