Via Lattea
Data: 
da 29/01/2018 a 31/01/2018
Location: 
Budinich Lecture Hall, ICTP, Strada Costiera, 11 - Trieste

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Via Lattea
Credits: 
NASA/JPL-Caltech

ICTP starts off its new year of quality scientific activities with the Salam Distinguished Lecture Series. For 2018, the featured speaker is Alan Guth, the Victor F. Weisskopf Professor of Physics and a Margaret MacVicar Faculty Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Guth delivers a series of three lectures, from 29 to 31 January, titled "Inflationary cosmology: is our universe part of a multiverse?". According to Guth, inflationary cosmology gives a plausible explanation for many observed features of the universe, including its uniformity, its mass density, and the patterns of the ripples that are observed in the cosmic microwave background. Beyond what we can observe, most versions of inflation imply that our universe is not unique, but is part of a possibly infinite multiverse. Guth's first two lectures will describe the workings of inflation, the evidence for inflation, and why he believes that the possibility of a multiverse should be taken seriously. In the third lecture, he will discuss the arrow of time, and how it might originate in the context of inflationary cosmology. 

Abstracts of all three lectures here.

All start each day at 17:00, and will be livestreamed. 


Image credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech