JOINT PARTICLE SEMINAR



Date: Wednesday,  7 June 2006   Time: 3:00 p.m.

Place: 174 Computer Science

Speaker: Tony Tyson, UC Davis

Title: Observing Dark Energy

Abstract: What is causing the recent acceleration of the universe? A new component to the energy or a departure from our theory of gravity? Either way, observations can probe the physics of this "dark energy." Combined with cosmic microwave background observations, data on the position and apparent shapes of billions of distant galaxies will provide several independent probes of dark energy. I will describe an experiment, called LSST, which will undertake these multiple high- precision probes using a single wide-fast-deep survey of half the sky.

Host: M. Kaplinghat