SMU Physics Department Speaker Series - Prof. Joel Meyers
Channel: Stephen Sekula
Date: 2022-01-25

"New Opportunities and New Challenges with Upcoming CMB Surveys"

Future surveys will map the cosmic microwave background (CMB) with unprecedented precision. The high fidelity of the data will present new opportunities to extract deep insights about the history, contents, and evolution of our universe. However, new tools and techniques will be required to maximize the potential of the forthcoming data. I will highlight examples from my recent research aimed at these new opportunities and the techniques necessary to realize them. I will describe machine learning tools for measuring sources of secondary CMB anisotropy, I will highlight the various benefits of CMB delensing, and I will show how a cosmological measurement of neutrino mass will have broad implications for cosmology.