14.05.2010 (Friday)

Non-Gaussianity as a Probe of Fundamental Physics

Regular Seminar Yi Wang (McGill)

at:
14:00 QMW
room 609
abstract:

Non-Gaussianity, which denotes the non-Gaussian feature of the CMB temperature fluctuation, is potentially the most promising probe of inflation. In this talk, we discuss some recent research topics in this field, namely non-Gaussianity for DBI inflation, quasi-single field inflation and multi-stream inflation. Special attention is paid on the relation between non-Gaussianity and string theory.