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Tuesday, 6 May 2014, 16:00 in Saywell 10081

Prof. Rocky Kolb (University of Chicago)

The Quantum and the Cosmos (public lecture)

The laws of the quantum describe the behavior of elementary particles and other phenomena in the submicroscopic world. But understanding the largest structures in the cosmos also requires knowledge of the quantum world. This inner space/outer space connection may hold the key to understanding the nature of the dark matter holding together our galaxy and the mysterious dark energy pulling apart our universe, as well as understanding the cosmic seeds of structure that grew to produce everything we see in the cosmos.

Edward W. Kolb, known as Rocky Kolb is a cosmologist and a professor at the University of Chicago as well as the dean of Physical Sciences. He has worked on many aspects of the big bang cosmology, including baryogenesis, nucleosynthesis and dark matter. He is author, with Michael Turner, of the popular textbook The Early Universe (Addison-Wesley, 1990). Additionally, alongside his co-author Michael Turner, Kolb was awarded the 2010 Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics.

Seminars in 2013:

2013-09-10 14:00 in P8445B - Andrei Frolov (SFU): Intermittent non-Gaussianity
2013-09-20 14:30 in AQ3150 - Christopher Stubbs (Harvard University): The dark energy crisis in the longer term (physics colloquium)
2013-10-01 14:00 in P8445B - Ali Narimani (UBC): Minimal parameterizations for modified gravity
2013-10-04 14:30 in AQ3150 - Joseph Polchinski (KITP): The black hole information paradox, alive and kicking (physics colloquium)
2013-10-08 14:00 in P8445B - Yin-Zhe Ma (UBC): Cosmic peculiar velocity field
2013-10-22 14:00 in P8445B - Alireza Hojjati (SFU): Cosmology with strong lensing time delays
2013-10-29 14:00 in P8445B - Levon Pogosian (SFU): Primordial magnetism in CMB polarization
2013-11-01 14:30 in AQ3150 - Neil Turok (Perimeter Institute): On quantum tunnelling (physics colloquium)
2013-11-12 14:00 in P8445B - Jun-Qi Guo (SFU): Spherical collapse in f(R) gravity
2013-11-19 14:00 in P8445B - Jes Ford (UBC): Weighing galaxy clusters with weak lensing magnification
2014-01-28 14:00 in P8445B - Ivan Agullo (Louisiana State University): Conformal anomaly and primordial magnetic fields
2014-03-04 14:00 in P8445B - Thomas Kephart (Vanderbilt University): Helicity conservation and generalized Beltrami fields
2014-04-08 14:00 in P8445B - Zhiqi Huang (CITA, University of Toronto): Inflation trajectories after Planck and BICEP2
2014-05-06 16:00 in Saywell 10081 - Rocky Kolb (University of Chicago): The Quantum and the Cosmos (public lecture)
2014-08-15 14:00 in P8445B - Dmitri Pogosyan (University of Alberta): Topology of the Universe from Planck CMB data

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Modified by Andrei Frolov <frolov@sfu.ca> on 2023-11-01