Start Date: | 2/1/2018 | Start Time: | 3:30 PM |
End Date: | 2/1/2018 | End Time: | 4:30 PM |
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Event Description Bharat Ratra, PhD, Kansas State University
Experiments and observations over the last two decades have provided strong support for a "standard" model of cosmology that describes the evolution of the universe from an early epoch of inflation to the complex hierarchy of structure seen today. I review the basic physics, astronomy, and history of ideas on which this model is based. I describe the data which persuade cosmologists that (as yet undetected) dark energy and dark matter are by far the main components of the energy budget of the universe. I conclude with a list of open cosmological questions. |
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Location: Disque Hall, Room 919, 32 South 32nd Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104 |
Audience: Undergraduate StudentsGraduate StudentsFaculty |
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