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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">FYI University of Glasgow Physics Department Colloquium this week.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US"> Sonja Franke-Arnold [mailto:Sonja.Franke-Arnold@glasgow.ac.uk]
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<b>Sent:</b> 05 January 2015 15:57<br>
<b>To:</b> phas-staff@glasgow.ac.uk; phas-pgall@glasgow.ac.uk; phas-hon-staff@glasgow.ac.uk<br>
<b>Cc:</b> Daniel Oi<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Colloquium Wd at 3pm; Prof Chris Collins, "Probing the Local Void with Clusters of Galaxies"<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black">Dear All,
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quick reminder about this week's colloquium.<br>
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speaker: <strong><span style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">Professor Chris Collins
</span></strong>(Astrophysics Research Institute, Liverpool John Moores University)<br>
title: <strong><span style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">Profing the Local Void with Clusters of Galaxies
</span></strong>(abstract underneath)<br>
date: 7/1/15 <br>
time: 3pm to 4pm, followed by coffee and doughnuts<br>
place: Kelvin Building, room 220<br>
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Best wishes, <br>
Sonja<br>
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<p><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Probing the Local Void with Clusters of Galaxies
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<p><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Claims of a large under density or void in the matter distribution on scales out to 300 million parsecs<a name="_GoBack"></a> have recently been made using samples of galaxies. If
representative of the galaxy distribution as a whole, these results could have profound implications for cosmology, providing an alternative explanation for the acceleration of the universe, as discovered with Type 1a supernovae data, without the need for
dark energy. In this seminar I will discuss the results of an alternative test of the matter distribution on these large scales using clusters of galaxies, which provide an independent and powerful probe of large-scale structure. I will also discuss the cosmological
implications of our findings.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Professor Chris Collins<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black">Astrophysics Research Institute<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black">Liverpool John Moores University</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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