You are all invited to participate in the joint BiCoQ/Astro seminar “Exploring the birth of the universe with the CMB“
Speaker: Professor Lyman Page (Princeton University)
Abstract: 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 with the Simons Observatory.
About the speaker: Prof. Lyman Page is the James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor of Physics at Princeton University. He is an expert in observational cosmology and one of the original co-investigators for the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) satellite telescope that made precise observations of the electromagnetic radiation from the Big Bang, known as cosmic microwave background radiation. He is the founding director of the ACT (Atacama Cosmology Telescope) project, and a founding member of the Simons Observatory. He is the recipient of several awards and honors, including the Breakthrough Prize (2017), the Gruber Prize (2015, 2012), and the Shaw Prize (2010). He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Date/Time: Wednesday, 28th May 2025, 11:30
Location: May 27th, at 13:30, Room U4-01 (Milano-Bicocca, Piazza della Scienza 3, Milano)