Schedule Jan 11, 2006
Fun with Dark Energy
Dr. Andreas Albrecht, UC Davis

The discovery of cosmic acceleration has generated tremendous excitement among researchers in fundamental physics and cosmology. Most experts agree that nothing short of a revolution will be required to fully integrate the observed cosmic acceleration (which many attribute to a mysterious "dark energy") with established physics. Currently this discovery is driving very exciting research in both the theoretical and observational domain. I will present two of these topics that particularly interest me:

  1. Dark Energy and Cosmic Equilibrium: How a cosmological constant could make the universe look like a box of gas (and what this could mean for cosmology).
  2. Probes of Dark Energy: A host of new probes promise to tell us more about dark energy, but what do we really want to know?

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