Speaker
Edward Wilson-Ewing
(University of New Brunswick)
Description
My talk will review how cosmological observations can be used to test quantum gravity, and also to provide some guidance for future progress. I will discuss how to make contact with cosmological data from loop quantum cosmology, observational constraints on the realization of various cosmological scenarios (such as inflation, ekpyrosis and the matter bounce) within loop quantum cosmology, as well as the connection between loop quantum cosmology and full loop quantum gravity. Finally, I will describe some open problems in cosmology, and present potential mechanisms whereby loop quantum gravity may be able to resolve them.