Talk by Professor Vincent Vennin, Astro Particule et Cosmologie (APC), Paris at QASTM seminar
Channel: Sayantan Choudhury
Date: 03/08/2020

Title: Quantum aspects of primordial cosmological perturbations

Abstract: During inflation, quantum vacuum fluctuations are amplified and stretched to large distances, giving rise to cosmological perturbations that seed the large scale structure of our Universe. However, astronomers usually analyse the data with purely classical techniques and apparently never need to rely on the quantum formalism to understand them. So are there observational signatures of the quantum origins of inflationary perturbations? Can inflation be used to test fundamental aspects of quantum mechanics itself?

Speaker: Professor Vincent Vennin, AstroParticule et Cosmologie (APC)/ The Astroparticle and Cosmology laboratory, Paris.

Date and Time: 3rd August, 3:00 PM to 5:30 PM (Berlin time)

Zoominar link: https://mpi-aei.zoom.us/j/97623339163

Contact: Dr. Sayantan Choudhury (sayantan.choudhury@aei.mpg.de)