MPP Colloquium

Shedding Light On Dark Energy

by Prof. Jochen Weller (Universitätssternwarte München)

→ Europe/Berlin
Description
I will review the astrophysical measurements, which provided evidence for the accelerated expansion of the Universe. I will then discuss the implications for our model of the Universe and how we think we can explain the accelerated expansion with dark energy or more exotic additions to Einstein's theory of gravity. I will finally discuss how future survey campaign or satellite missions should be designed to reveal some properties of dark energy or alternatives.
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