27–30 Apr 2026
Palais des papes, Avignon
Europe/Paris timezone

Pontificating about inflation

27 Apr 2026, 09:00
35m
Chambre du Trésorier (Palais des papes, Avignon)

Chambre du Trésorier

Palais des papes, Avignon

Speaker

Lucas Pinol

Description

Cosmic inflation has been the leading paradigm to describe our Universe’s earliest moments for the last decades. Inspired by the residence of this conference, I will pontificate about recent progress on old and new themes in inflation. While necessarily broad in scope, this presentation will revisit some of the following historical themes from a modern perspective: gauge issues, quantumness of inflationary fluctuations, model degeneracy, primordial non-Gaussianity, primordial black holes and primordial gravitational waves.

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