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.