PASCOS 2016: 22nd International Symposium on Particles, Strings and Cosmology

Session

Plenary Session 5

12 Jul 2016, 08:30

ICISE

Conveners

Plenary Session 5: Cosmology/Dark Energy

• Jihn E. Kim (Kyung Hee University)

172. Inflation and gravitational waves

Valerie Domcke (SISSA)

12/07/2016, 08:30

Gravitational waves are unique messengers to explore the very early universe, probing energy ranges far beyond the reach of photon or even neutrino astronomy. The holy grail in this context is the stochastic gravitational wave background of cosmic inflation, which would shed light on the microphysics of inflation as well as on the entire subsequent cosmological history. In the simplest model...

132. Overview of Planck results

Eric Hivon

12/07/2016, 09:00

The European Space Agency’s Planck satellite, dedicated to studying the early Universe and its subsequent evolution, was launched in May 2009 and scanned the microwave and submillimetre sky continuously up to late 2013. This talk gives an overview of the main characteristics of the data and the data products now released, in temperature and polarization, as well as the associated cosmological...

175. Current status of Dark Energy and beyond

Shinji Tsujikawa (Tokyo University of Science)

12/07/2016, 09:30

We present recent observational bounds on dark energy constrained by the type Ia supernovae, cosmic microwave background, and baryon acoustic oscillations. We review a number of theoretical approaches that have been adopted so far to explain the origin of dark energy. This includes the cosmological constant, modified matter models (such as quintessence, k-essence), and modified gravity models...