2021 CAP Virtual Congress / Congrès virtuel de l'ACP 2021

(I) Some challenges for theoretical cosmology

8 Jun 2021, 15:45

25m

Underline Conference System

Invited Speaker / Conférencier(ère) invité(e) Symposia Day (DTP) - Cosmology/Jim Peebles celebration TS1-4 Early Universe (DTP Symposium on Cosmology: James Peebles Nobel Celebration) / L'univers jeune (Symposium DPT sur la cosmologie: le prix Nobel de James Peebles)

Speaker

Edward Wilson-Ewing (University of New Brunswick)

Description

I will review some important challenges for theoretical cosmology, focusing on the trans-Planckian problem for inflation and the anisotropy problem for matter bounce and ekpyrosis, and I will discuss some recent work exploring particular aspects of these problems.