Title: Cosmology - small and large Speaker: Yin-Zhe Ma (University of British Columbia, Canada) Time & Place: Tuesday, 3:00pm, January 14th, 3rd floor middle conference room Abstract: The Observations of cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation, large-scale structure and 21-cm are the major probes of cosmology in recent years. In this talk, I will discuss how these surveys are related to our understanding of fundamental aspects of the Universe: 1. Do the current cosmological parameters from Planck satellite indicate some new physics? 2. Does the full-sky CMB indicate broken statistical isotropy? 3. What is the mass of Andromeda and Milky-way, and can we determine cosmology just from our local group? 4. Do the bulk flow of nearby galaxies indicate some new physics? 5. How does the 21-cm observation tell the nature of dark matter and dark energy.
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