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TAPIR Seminar

Friday, May 10, 2013
2:00pm to 3:00pm
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Cahill 370
Testing Gravity with Cosmology: a new Golden Age?
Pedro Ferreira, Professor, Astrophysics, University of Oxford,

With the successes of observational cosmology,  a new window has opened up
onto gravitational physics. By carefully measuring the morphology and growth
of structure in the Universe it may be possible to constrain general relativity on a
completely new range of scales. It also allows us to explore a plethora of modified
gravity theories that have emerged as an attempt to explain the observational
evidence for dark energy. I will discuss the challenges and approaches which
are being taken in this new field.

For more information, please contact JoAnn Boyd by phone at 4280 or by email at [email protected].