NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forums |
Organized by: Prof. Lu Lu
Events During the Week of March 30th through April 6th, 2014
Monday, March 31st, 2014
- No events scheduled
Tuesday, April 1st, 2014
- No events scheduled
Wednesday, April 2nd, 2014
- No events scheduled
Thursday, April 3rd, 2014
- Cosmic voids as cosmological laboratories
- Time: 2:00 pm
- Place: 4274 Chamberlin
- Speaker: Paul Sutter, IAP
- Abstract: Voids are the large, underdense regions in the cosmic web, and they are potentially powerful cosmological probes due to their intimate connection to the growth of structure, their domination by dark energy, and their relative lack of systematics. I will present our latest work to identify voids in galaxy redshift surveys, our efforts to understand their fundamental nature and their connection to dark matter underdensities, and an overview of many diverse cosmological applications, including gravitational lensing, the ISW effect, and the Alcock-Paczynski effect.
- Host: Peter Timbie
Friday, April 4th, 2014
- No events scheduled