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SUMMARY:Constraining the birth of our Universe  - Prof. Anthony Challinor
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DESCRIPTION:One hundred years ago\, Hubble determined that the Milky Way d
 oes not constitute the entirety of our Universe. Two years earlier\, Fried
 mann had derived his eponymous equations describing the evolution of homog
 eneous and isotropic models of the universe. These discoveries elevated co
 smology to an observational and quantitative science. In the intervening c
 entury\, our understanding of the Universe and our cosmic history has been
  transformed. Careful comparisons between measurements of fluctuations in 
 the cosmic microwave background (CMB) and precise calculations of their ex
 pected statistical properties have been pivotal to these developments. In 
 this talk\, I will discuss how we can use the CMB to constrain the physics
  of the early universe and what we have learnt with recent data from space
 - and ground-based measurements.
LOCATION:MR2 in the CMS
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