Wednesday 18 March 2015 

Speaker: Jo Dunkley (Oxford University)


Title: "Cosmology from the microwave background" 

Abstract: The Cosmic Microwave Background continues to provide us with a 
wealth of information about the universe. I will show new results from 
the complete Planck satellite mission, which mapped the microwave anisotropy 
in both temperature and polarization from 2009-13, and describe other 
recent progress in the field. I will discuss the status of the LCDM 
cosmological model, which is now so well established but has significant 
features yet to explain. I will describe some future directions for 
investigating the physics of the very early universe, and of the 
cosmic dark sector.