Local Group Dwarfs and the Cold Dark Matter Paradigm
Manoj Kaplinghat University of California, Irvine
Cosmologists at Perimeter Institute seek to help pin down the constituents and history of our universe, and the rules governing its origin and evolution. Many of the most interesting clues about physics beyond the standard model (e.g., dark matter, dark energy, the matter/anti-matter asymmetry, and the spectrum of primordial density perturbations], come from cosmological observations, and cosmological observations are often the best way to test or constrain a proposed modification of the laws of nature, since such observations can probe length scales, time scales, and energy scales that are beyond the reach of terrestrial laboratories.
Manoj Kaplinghat University of California, Irvine
Viatcheslav Mukhanov Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitiät München (LMU)
Jonathan Heckman Institute for Advanced Study (IAS)
Aaron Berndsen Simon Fraser University (SFU)
Arttu Rajantie Imperial College London
Maximo Banados Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
David Morrissey TRIUMF (Canada's National Laboratory for Particle and Nuclear Physics)
Niayesh Afshordi University of Waterloo
Alexander Westphal Stanford University
Andrei Barvinski P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences