Speaker
Dr
Timothy Clifton
(Queen Mary, U. of London)
Description
The recent tensions between cosmological data sets are difficult to accommodate within the standard Friedmann cosmological models. In this talk I will discuss how we might consider more general cosmologies, which could provide more flexibility. I will introduce the mathematical formalisms required to understand Friedmann within this generalized context, and the challenges and difficulties that remain in applying these ideas to the real Universe.
