Event time:
Monday, December 2, 2024 - 3:30pm to 4:30pm
Location:
Sloane Physics Laboratory, Room 57
217 Prospect Street
New Haven, CT
06511
Speaker/Performer:
Lyman Page - Princeton University
Event description:
“Exploring the birth of the universe with the CMB”
We will give a broad overview of the temperature anisotropy and polarization of the cosmic microwave background (CMB), for those who are not cosmologists, to motivate why it is a foundation for the standard model of cosmology. The model is surely not complete and there are a number of open questions such as “are there measurable gravitational waves from the Big Bang?” To address this, we describe a new experimental search for these primordial gravitational waves by the Simons Observatory.
Host: Maximilliano Silva-Feaver
Admission:
Free
Contact:
Jennifer Ongley