Talk by Professor Matias Zaldarriaga, Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton at QASTM seminar
Channel: Sayantan Choudhury
Date: 2020-06-01

Title: Challenges for physical cosmology after Planck

Abstract: I will summarize the current state of physical cosmology. I
will describe the open questions that remain and the challenges that
need to be overcome to make progress.

Speaker: Professor Matias Zaldarriaga, School of Natural Sciences,
Astrophysics and Cosmology, Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton,
USA
(https://www.ias.edu/scholars/zaldarriaga)
(https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matias_Zaldarriaga)
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matias_Zaldarriaga)

Time: 15:00 pm to 16:30 pm (zoom talk) (Berlin time)+discussions+questions

Date: 1st June 2020.

Biodata of Professor Matias Zaldarriaga:
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Matias Zaldarriaga has made many influential and creative
contributions to our understanding of the early universe, particle
astrophysics, and cosmology as a probe of fundamental physics. Much of
his work centers on understanding the clues about the earliest moments
of our universe encoded in the Cosmic Microwave Background, the faint
glow of radiation generated by the Big Bang, and in the distribution
of matter in the late universe.

DATES AT IAS:

Faculty Natural Sciences 7/2009–current
Member Natural Sciences 9/2001–12/2002
Member Natural Sciences 9/1998–1/2001

DEGREES:

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Ph.D., 1998
Universidad de Buenos Aires
Licenciado en Ciencias Fisicas, 1994

HONORS:

MacArthur Fellowship 2006
European Physical Society, Gribov Medal 2005
Sloan Fellowship 2004
American Astronomical Society, Helen B. Warner Prize 2003
Packard Fellowship 2001

APPOINTMENTS:

Harvard University 2003–2009 Professor 2004–09; Associate Professor 2003–04
New York University 2001–2002 Assistant Professor