Anniversary
5 years bctp
Michael S. Turner, Chicago
Quarks and the Cosmos
Abstract
The deep connections between the very big and the very small are profound and go well beyond the simple fact the the Universe began as quark soup. At present, the scientific agendas of these two fields ? particle physics and cosmology ? have almost merged and progress in the two fields is linked. I will discuss what we know about the Universe, what we are trying to find out, and finally what the big questions are today.CV
Michael S. Turner is the Rauner Distinguished Service Professor and the Director of the Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics at the University of Chicago. He is recognized for his seminal contributions to cosmology that have linked the quarks with the cosmos, including the quantum origin of density perturbations in inflationary cosmology, particle dark matter, the cold dark matter paradigm and the prediction of dark energy. Turner is a member of the US National Academy of Sciences, is the immediate past-President of the American Physical Society and was the Wolfgang Paul Fellow in 2000.
