Hello,
Due to double booking of the seminar room, today's seminar by G. Bertone
will take place at *3pm* in *N328*.
Kallia
On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 4:59 PM, Kalliopi Petraki <kpetraki(a)nikhef.nl>wrote:
> Hello,
>
> We will have two theory seminars this week, please see the information
> below.
> Note the unusual day for the first, unusual room for the second.
>
> Best,
> Kallia
>
>
> -------------------
> Date/place: Tuesday 16, 2pm, H331
> Speaker: Gianfranco Bertone (UvA)
>
> Title: The quest for Dark Matter
>
> Abstract: After a brief review of the Dark Matter problem in Cosmology and
> its possible connection with Particle Physics, I will discuss the
> prospects for detecting Dark Matter at the LHC and with the upcoming
> generation of Astroparticle experiments, focusing in particular on the
> complementarity of direct, indirect and accelerator searches, and showing
> with an explicit example how to combine them in a self-consistent way. I
> will conclude with a brief overview of the research activities of the new
> GRAPPA Institute at the U. of Amsterdam.
> -------------------
>
> Date/place: Thursday 18, 2pm, N328
> Speaker: Christophe Ringeval (Louvain)
>
> Title: Early universe cosmology after Planck 2013
>
> Abstract: The 2013 release of the Planck satellite data has provided
> unprecedented measurements of the Cosmic Microwave Background anisotropies
> and much more. Together with a few new observables at our disposal, these
> results can now be used to improve our understanding of the early universe.
> After an introduction to CMB physics and a selected summary of the Planck
> 2013 results, we will illustrate over two examples, cosmic strings and
> inflation, how the Planck data give us a window to very high energy physics
> provided one uses enough precise and systematic theoretical predictions.
>
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>