2022 Ta-You Wu Lecture in Physics | Finding Cosmic Inflation
Eiichiro Komatsu (Director of the Max-Planck-Institute for Astrophysics)
Wednesday, October 19, 2022
4:00-5:00 PM
Rackham Amphitheatre
Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
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This event is hybrid and, therefore, live-streamed. The lecture will be available at 4:00 pm on YouTube,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=galZmVFEcm0.
The Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) gives a photographic image of the Universe when it was still an “infant,” and its detailed measurements have given us a wealth of information, such as the composition and history of the Universe. The CMB research told us a remarkable story: the structure we see in our Universe, such as galaxies, stars, planets, and eventually ourselves, originated from tiny quantum fluctuations in the period of early Universe called “cosmic inflation.” But is this picture true? In this lecture, I will review the physics of CMB and key results from recent experiments and discuss future prospects for the quest to find out about our origins.
Learn more about Professor Komatsu and the Ta-You Wu event here: https://lsa.umich.edu/physics/news-events/special-lectures/ta-you-wu-lecture.html
The Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) gives a photographic image of the Universe when it was still an “infant,” and its detailed measurements have given us a wealth of information, such as the composition and history of the Universe. The CMB research told us a remarkable story: the structure we see in our Universe, such as galaxies, stars, planets, and eventually ourselves, originated from tiny quantum fluctuations in the period of early Universe called “cosmic inflation.” But is this picture true? In this lecture, I will review the physics of CMB and key results from recent experiments and discuss future prospects for the quest to find out about our origins.
Learn more about Professor Komatsu and the Ta-You Wu event here: https://lsa.umich.edu/physics/news-events/special-lectures/ta-you-wu-lecture.html
| Building: | Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) |
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| Event Type: | Lecture / Discussion |
| Tags: | AEM Featured, Basic Science, Faculty, Free, Graduate Students, Lecture, Natural Sciences, Physics, Talk, Undergraduate Students |
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