Speaker
Description
Primordial non-Gaussianity (PNG) is the smoking gun for non-canonical inflationary scenarios. While measurements from the CMB has hit the cosmic variance limit, the large-scale structure (LSS) holds great potential for improvement and the possibility for a verdict on our early universe. with the massive amount of data from up-and-coming surveys of the LSS, alongside higher-order statistics and new inference paradigms such as neural simulation-based inference, the future looks bright. However, these tools are still not perfect and require great attention to further develop the diagnostics, models, and summary statistics. In this lightning talk I will give an overview of the opportunities and challenges we are facing on our quest to hunt for PNG through the LSS.