[Physstaff] FWD: UGlasgow Colloquium, 3pm Wd 18/2 Hiranya Peiris , "Planck's view of the origin of the universe"

[Daniel Oi]

University of Glasgow, Physics Colloquium today.

From: Sonja Franke-Arnold [mailto:Sonja.Franke-Arnold at glasgow.ac.uk]
Sent: 18 February 2015 10:22
Subject: Colloquium today, Wd 18/2 at 3pm; Hiranya Peiris , "Planck's view of the origin of the universe"

Make sure you remember today's colloquium by Hiranya Peiris!


speaker:  Dr Hiranya Peiris (University College London)
title:  Planck's view of the origin of the universe (abstract underneath)
date:  18/2/15
time:  3pm to 4pm, followed by coffee and doughnuts
place:  Kelvin Building, room 222

Best wishes,
Sonja

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The observed properties of the primordial fluctuations in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) can provide constraints on physical theories in regimes otherwise inaccessible to experiment. Given the extreme conditions in the early Universe, the CMB is our best hope of uncovering fingerprints of the physics operating at very high energy scales, inaccessible to Earth-bound particle accelerators. But what created these primordial inhomogeneities? The Planck satellite has recently dramatically sharpened our view of the early Universe and provided a window into the origin of cosmic structure. I will describe how the Planck data promote our understanding of the extreme physics of the very early Universe, and what we have yet to learn.
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