New Frontiers in Observational Cosmology

[Muhammad.Ahmad]

"New Frontiers in Observational Cosmology"

Dr. Michel Fich

Our most recent generation of cosmology experiments, such as the Planck satellite and observations of distant supernovae, has reduced all of cosmology to the very precise measurement of eight parameters. This relatively simple model seems complete with no hints of additional elements required to explain the entire evolution of the universe from the Big Bang to some far distant future. These recent results include such things as the precise measurement of the contributors to the overall mass–energy density of the universe. We know with great precision the amount of dark energy, dark matter, neutrinos, baryons, etc., in the universe today. What we do not know is exactly what most of these things really are.

Dr. Fich is an astronomer at the University of Waterloo specializing in studies of star formation, the interstellar medium, and the structure of galaxies. His recent research activities have focused on "small scale" formation studies of low and intermediate mass stars, circumstellar disks, and the formation of proto-solar systems.

March 7, 2019 at 8:00 PM

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