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“Inflation after Planck and BICEP2 “
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Thursday, 15. May. 2014 |
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15:15 – 16:20 |
Abstract :
Since its
introduction more than 30 years ago, the idea of cosmic inflation has been
remarkably successful.
Inflation
not only solves a number of fine-tuning problems, but is also the most
convincing candidate for the
generating
the seeds of cosmic structure. I will briefly recap the generic predictions of
the inflationary mechanism,
review
how they can be tested observationally, and confront them with Cosmic Microwave
Background (CMB)
precision
data from the Planck experiment. Finally, I will present the recent measurement
of the CMB B-polarisation
spectrum by
the BICEP2 collaboration and discuss its implications for cosmology.