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SUMMARY:Groningen Spring 2016
DESCRIPTION:Date: Friday\, May 13\, 2016 \nLocation: Rijksuniversiteit Groningen (downtown)\, Faculty of Law building (next to the Harmonie building\, entrance in the Uurwerksgang)\, room T01 \n\nSchedule \n12:00 Talk by David Marsh (Cambridge)\n\n\nTitle: Simple emergent power spectra from complex inflationary physics\n\n\nAbstract: The primordial perturbations inferred from observations of the Cosmic Microwave Background and the large-scale structure of the universe are quite simple\, to a good approximation Gaussian and approximately scale-invariant\, and consistent with some of the simplest models of single-field slow-roll inflation. Embeddings of inflation in string theory however tend to be rather complex\, involving many fields (moduli and axions) with complicated interactions. Unfortunately\, constructing explicit models of inflation with many fields is computationally very challenging\, and not much is known about the observational predictions of complex many-field models of inflation.  In this talk\, I will report on some recent advances on this problem: using techniques from non-equilibrium random matrix theory\, ensembles of complicated inflationary models with many fields can be constructed\, and their observational predictions computed. Strikingly\, as the number of interacting fields (and hence the complexity of the model) increases\, the power spectra of curvature perturbations simplify\, and become more predictive. I will explain how these results can be understood in terms of universal properties of large\, random matrices.\n\n\n\n\n13:00 lunch (not provided)\n\n\n14:00 Talk by Alessandra Silvestri (Leiden) \n\n\n\nTitle: Parametrized approaches to modified gravity \n\n\nAbstract: I will focus on the challenge posed by cosmic acceleration and discuss theoretical issues involved in finding an optimal framework to  test gravity on cosmological scales with upcoming high precision measurements of the large scale structure. I will give an overview or recent progress and in particular discuss in detail the practical aspects of the effective field theory approach to dark energy and its implementation in CAMB.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n15:00 coffee (provided )\n\n\n\n 15.30 Talk by Remko Klein (Groningen)\n\nTitle: Towards the most general scalar-tensor theory
URL:http://cosmology.nl/event/groningen-spring-2016/
LOCATION:Rijksuniversiteit Groningen\, Uurwerksgang\, Groningen\, Groningen\, 9712 EK \, Netherlands
CATEGORIES:THC meeting
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