Primordial non-Gaussianity, statistics of collapsed objects, and the ISW effect
Niayesh Afshordi University of Waterloo
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.
Niayesh Afshordi University of Waterloo
Ue-Li Pen Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics (CITA)
Kendrick Smith Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
Xingang Chen University of Cambridge
Daniel Chung University of Wisconsin–Madison
Sarah Shandera Pennsylvania State University
Ravi Sheth University of Pennsylvania
Licia Verde Institute of Space Sciences
Dragan Huterer University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Marilena LoVerde University of Washington
Aaron Vincent Queen's University
Franz Elsner Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics Munich Germany