报告题目：Cosmology after Planck

报 告 人： David Spergel，Princeton University

报告时间：6月21日（周五）下午4：00

报告地点：理科楼郑裕彤大讲堂

报告摘要：Planck has just reported its full-sky measurement of the microwave background temperature and polarization fluctuations. These measurements probe both the physics of the very early universe and the basic properties of the universe today. These measurements confirm the basic picture developed by WMAP and ground based satelites measurements and provide an accurate and consistent determination of basic comological parameters (the curvature of the universe, its matter density and composition). When combined with other astronomical measurements, the measurements contrain the properties of the dark energy and the mass of the neutrino. The observations also directly probe the physics of inflation: the current data imply that the primordial fluctuations were primarily adiabatic and nearly scale invariant.

Many key cosmological questions remain unanswered: what happened during the first moments of the big bang? what is the dark energy? what were the properties of the first stars? I will discuss the role of on-going and future CMB observations in addressing these key cosmological questions and describe how the combination of large-scale structure, supernova and CMB data can be used to address these questions.