Testing String Theory with Cosmological Observations

Posted Mon, 03/09/2009 - 11:39 by tym

Speaker: Robert Brandenberger

Brief CV:
1983 PhD, Harvard University
1987 - 2004 assistant, associate and full professor, Brown University
2004 - present Canada Research Chair and Professor of Physics, McGill University

Abstract:

The inflationary scenario, the current paradigm for early universe cosmology, suffers from several conceptual problems which motivate the search for an improved theory. I will explore the possibility that superstring theory can yield a new early universe cosmology, and will present ways to test such a new theory with cosmological observations.
 
March 11,2009(Wednesday),15:00, A601