Speaker
Prof.
Yi-fu Cai
(University of Science and Technology of China)
Description
In this talk I will briefly introduce the present understanding about the cosmic acceleration at present from the perspective of phenomenological study. I will review the latest observational status of the late-time cosmic acceleration and then depict how to do the model building of dynamical dark energy. Afterwards, I will also give an introduction to a type of torsional based modified gravity, which can also realize the cosmic acceleration at present. This so-called f(T) gravity and beyond theories can be depicted in a language of effective field theory and thus we can examine certain operators that are most connected with various cosmological observations.
