Collection Number
C10014
Collection Date
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Collection Type
Conference/School
Cosmological Frontiers in Fundamental Physics
IR effects, semiclassical relations, and perturbative limitations in inflationary spacetimes
Steve Giddings
University of California
TBA
Hints from galaxies to a still better cosmology
James Peebles
Princeton University
The network of tests shows the LCDM cosmology is a good approximation to what actually happened, but that need not mean it has all the physics relevant to cosmology back to light element formation. I will review properties of galaxies that seem to be particularly difficult to understand within LCDM and might be pointing to still better physics.
Constraining primordial non-Gaussianity with large-scale structure
Licia Verde
Institute of Space Sciences
Constraining primordial non-Gaussianity can offer a window into the early universe, and into testing the inflationary paradigm, which is fully complementary to the approach offered by Cosmic Microwave Background polarization.
Large-scale structure and galaxy surveys have recently received renewed attention as a way to constrain primordial non-Gaussianity. I will review the potential and the limitations of this approach and highlight its complementarity to Cosmic Microwave Background observations.
On the Microscopic Description of the Kerr Black Hole
Alexander Maloney
McGill University
We describe recent progress on the quantum description of the Kerr black hole. Previous descriptions of black hole microstates have relied on the existence of near-horizon regions with conformal symmetry, and hence have only worked for extremal or supersymmetric black holes. We argue that the states of non-extremal black holes can also be understood in terms of a conformal symmetry, the difference being that this symmetry is not geometrically realized. Thus a Kerr black hole is an excited state of a conformal field theory.