Speaker
Dr
Alexandros Karam
(NICPB National Institute Tallinn)
Description
In this seminar we give an overview of various modified theories of gravity in the Palatini formalism and discuss their inflationary predictions. We then show how the Palatini formalism can be used to construct models of quintessential inflation where a single scalar field can play the role of the inflaton at early times and of dynamical dark energy at late times.
