SCIENCE SEMINAR
THEORETICAL COSMOLOGY BISHOP'S 2008
Valerio Faraoni
Physics Department
Bishop's University
Friday, February 15, 2008
12.30-1.30 pm
Bishop Williams Hall
The status of theoretical cosmology will be briefly reviewed, followed by an outline of recent work with students and collaborators on models of inflation in the early universe and of the present, accelerating, universe. This includes dark energy models and their relations with phantom energy and the Big Rip singularity, "f(R)" and "scalar-tensor" gravity theories applied to cosmology, and new solutions of Einstein's theory describing black holes embedded in a cosmological background and expanding with it.
This talk is intended for Physics undergraduates contemplating opportunities for Honours theses and summer research, and for all those interested in cosmology at Bishop's.
