Inflation and the Early Universe
The South Pole Telescope (SPT) is one of the experiments looking for the gravitational waves from inflation. This is a video of SPT’s 2014 season put together by one of the winter-overs Robert Schwarz on Vimeo. |
Inflation, a period of accelerating expansion in the early Universe, is a core element in the standard cosmological model. Inflation neatly solves a number of observational problems, such as: Why is the Universe flat? Why don’t we see magnetic monopoles and other relics? How can the early Universe be so uniform? Understanding inflation is a key problem in modern physics.
Supervisor Profiles & Available Research Projects
Dr Christian Reichardt
- Searches for inflationary gravitational waves
Cosmic Microwave Background as rendered by ESA’s PLANCK Mission
- James Webb Space Telescope observations of the first galaxies Wednesday 18 May 2022 @ 12:00 p.m., Laby Theatre(+Zoom)[...]
- Ultra Diffuse Galaxies: Galaxies at the Extreme Wednesday 11 May 2022 @ 12:00 p.m., Laby Theatre(+Zoom)[...]
- Variational Inference for Bayesian Neural Networks via Resolution of Singularities Wednesday 25 May 2022 @ 12:00 p.m., Laby Theatre(+Zoom)[...]
- Dark Matters at Swinburne Wednesday 04 May 2022 @ 12:00 p.m., Laby Theatre(+Zoom)[...]
- How to model the Universe in N easy steps (N>>1) Wednesday 27 Apr 2022 @ 12:00 p.m., David Caro building[...]
- The Fast Radio Burst Enigma Wednesday 20 Apr 2022 @ 12:00 p.m., David Caro building[...]
- Starduster: A multi-wavelength SED model based on radiative transfer simulations and deep learning Wednesday 06 Apr 2022 @ 12:00 p.m., Zoom Dr Yisheng Qiu[...]