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Monday, 12 January 2015, 12:00 in P8445B

Prof. Misao Sasaki (YITP, Kyoto University)

Reviving open inflation
The scenario of open inflation once popular in the 1990's was abandoned when the WMAP team announced in 2003 that our Universe is almost flat. However, as the precision of observational data has increased, the possibility to test the present curvature parameter of Ω_K ∼ 0.01-0.001 has become not unrealistic. I argue that open inflation can explain some of recent cosmological data better than others, and it may be a new window to the physics of the Universe at or even before inflation.

Seminars in 2014:

2014-09-03 16:15 in P8445A - Yin-Zhe Ma (UBC): Searching for missing baryons

2014-10-02 16:00 in P8445A - Gabor Kunstatter (University of Winnipeg): The stability of AdS spacetime in Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet gravity

2014-10-03 14:30 in AQ3005 - Gabor Kunstatter (University of Winnipeg): The black hole information loss problem: Is there light at the end of the tunnel? (physics colloquium)

2014-10-23 16:00 in P8445A - Yuting Wang (NAOC Beijing): Cosmological forecasts for galaxy surveys using multi-tracer techniques

2014-10-30 16:00 in P8445A - Yun Li (SFU): Primordial magnetic fields

2014-11-06 16:00 in P8445A - Tomas Galvez (SFU): Bimetric models of gravity and cosmology in the early universe

2014-11-20 16:00 in P8445A - Micah Brush (SFU): 3D cosmological observables in spherical coordinates

2015-01-12 12:00 in P8445B - Misao Sasaki (YITP, Kyoto University): Reviving open inflation

2015-01-20 15:30 in P8445B - Alessandra Silvestri (Lorentz Institute, Leiden): Testing gravity within the EFT framework of cosmic acceleration

2015-01-26 12:00 in P8445B - Gong-Bo Zhao (NAOC, Beijing and ICG, Portsmouth): Cosmological tests of gravity

2015-03-05 14:00 in P8445A - Scott Chapman (Dalhousie University): Studying the epoch of inflation with the cosmic microwave background

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Modified by Andrei Frolov <frolov@sfu.ca> on 2025-03-17

2014-09-03 16:15 in P8445A	- Yin-Zhe Ma (UBC): Searching for missing baryons
2014-10-02 16:00 in P8445A	- Gabor Kunstatter (University of Winnipeg): The stability of AdS spacetime in Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet gravity
2014-10-03 14:30 in AQ3005	- Gabor Kunstatter (University of Winnipeg): The black hole information loss problem: Is there light at the end of the tunnel? (physics colloquium)
2014-10-23 16:00 in P8445A	- Yuting Wang (NAOC Beijing): Cosmological forecasts for galaxy surveys using multi-tracer techniques
2014-10-30 16:00 in P8445A	- Yun Li (SFU): Primordial magnetic fields
2014-11-06 16:00 in P8445A	- Tomas Galvez (SFU): Bimetric models of gravity and cosmology in the early universe
2014-11-20 16:00 in P8445A	- Micah Brush (SFU): 3D cosmological observables in spherical coordinates
2015-01-12 12:00 in P8445B	- Misao Sasaki (YITP, Kyoto University): Reviving open inflation
2015-01-20 15:30 in P8445B	- Alessandra Silvestri (Lorentz Institute, Leiden): Testing gravity within the EFT framework of cosmic acceleration
2015-01-26 12:00 in P8445B	- Gong-Bo Zhao (NAOC, Beijing and ICG, Portsmouth): Cosmological tests of gravity
2015-03-05 14:00 in P8445A	- Scott Chapman (Dalhousie University): Studying the epoch of inflation with the cosmic microwave background