[Triumf-seminars] TRIUMF Seminar today at 14:00

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Date/Time: Thu 2005-03-03 at 14:00

Location:  Auditorium          

Speaker:   Matt Dobbs (LBNL/McGill)

Title:     Probing the opposite ends of time with the Cosmic Background Radiation

Abstract: The next generation of Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) observations will unlock a wealth of information about the composition, origin, and fate of the universe. I'll describe a series of bold new experiments which will make use of recent instrumentation advances to precisely measure the CMB polarization and the Sunyaev Zeldovich effect.

With these observation, we'll gain insight into the origins of the universe using the CMB polarization, which may encode information transmitted by gravity waves from an inflationary era at the earliest instants of space-time. The Sunyaev Zeldovich effect allows us to catalog distant galaxy clusters, providing a measure of the scale evolution of the universe - and hence its fate. Together these observations have the potential to revolutionize our understanding of the universe in which we live.

This talk is intended to be accessible for students, especially those with no background in cosmology.

Stimulants available 15 minutes before the talk.

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