"Cosmology As a Probe of Physics Beyond the Standard Model""Cosmology As a Probe of Physics Beyond the Standard Model"http://www.haverford.edu/calendar/details/128722KINSC Sharpless Auditorium2010-02-11T16:30:002010-02-11T18:00:00
February 11, 4:30PM
KINSC Sharpless Auditorium
Haverford Physics Colloquium talk by Professor Scott Watson, Syracuse University
Description
In its earliest moments the Universe experienced a very rapid period of accelerated expansion known as cosmological inflation. Inflation leads to a number of observational signatures that can be used to test our theories of the early Universe. One example of such a theory is Superstring theory. Recent theoretical advances not only provide testable string models of inflation, but may even allow us to ask what happened before the “Big Bang”. Most excitingly, many of these ideas will be tested in the near future by experiment. After a general overview of inflationary cosmology Professor Watson will discuss some of the new ideas arising from String theory and how many of them will be scrutinized in upcoming experiments.
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