spring workshop on gravity and cosmology

Session

inflation and PBH

16 May 2019, 09:30

University of Warsaw

Conveners

inflation and PBH: TBA

• Chunshan Lin (University of Warsaw)

3. Merger rate of primordial black hole binaries:I

須山輝明 Suyama

16/05/2019, 09:30

Discovery of black hole binaries by LIGO/Virgo provoked a renewed interest in primordial black holes (PBHs). After I give a brief introduction of PBHs, I explain how PBHs form binaries and compute their merger rate.

4. Merger rate of primordial black hole binaries:II

須山輝明 Suyama

16/05/2019, 11:00

This is a continuation of my first talk.

5. Early Universe Models in Light of the Swampland Constraints

Prof. Robert Brandenberger (McGill University)

16/05/2019, 12:15

Cosmological inflation has been the main paradigm for early universe cosmology since the early 1980s, but we are still lacking an embedding of inflation into fundamental physics. I will discuss constraints on inflation, and on other scenarios of early universe cosmology, which arise when one tries to embed the scenarios into superstring theory.