Cosmological results from the Planck Satellite

Department Colloquia

Speaker: Douglas Scott, University of British Columbia
Date & Time: October 17, 2013 16:00 - 17:00
Location: UBC, Hennings 201
Local Contact: Douglas Scott
Intended Audience: Undergraduate

The Planck satellite, designed to comprehensively map the microwave sky in 9 frequency bands, was launched in 2009 and returned the first major cosmology results earlier this year. I will describe the experiment, indicate what we have learned about the Universe so far, and discuss what might come from results from the full Planck mission.