"Inflationary Gravitational Waves: Recent Advances and Next Steps"

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem , Physics Colloquium (Rosenblum Lecture)

"Inflationary Gravitational Waves: Recent Advances and Next Steps"

Prof. Marc Kamionkowski

Department of Physics and Astronomy, Johns Hopkins University

Monday, 31 Mar, 2014 - 12:00 - 13:30

Levin building, Lecture Hall No. 8

The recent detection of the cosmic microwave background signature of inflationary gravitational waves is simply stunning. I will discuss how the measurement is done, the recent detection, and its interpretation. I will then review next steps to be taken with future CMB experiments and with galaxy surveys.