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Licia Verde

02 December 2020

Blind watchers of the sky

Abstract:

Over the past 20 years cosmology has made the transition to a precision science. Synergies between cosmology and particle physics will be pivotal in any future progress in the theoretical interpretation of the experimental evidence. To me however, this brings to mind what Feynman said: "The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool." This is further complicated by the fact that cosmology only makes observations not experiments, so virtually every inference is heavily model dependent. I will explore a couple of examples of how I think we can proceed as not to fool ourselves in the interpretation of forthcoming galaxy redshift surveys.

Padova Cosmology Seminars are events organized and hosted by the Padova cosmology group:

Nicola Bartolo, Daniele Bertacca, Michele Liguori, Sabino Matarrese, Alvise Raccanelli, Angelo Ricciardone

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I want to acknowledge my current past supervisors and mentors: Sabino Matarrese, Gianfranco De Zotti, Will Percival, David Bacon, Olivier Dore, Marc Kamionkowski, Alex Szalay, Joe Silk, Licia Verde.

My research has been supported by a CERN fellowship, a Marie SkÅ‚odowska-Curie fellowship at the University of Barcelona, by the John Templeton Foundation at Johns Hopkins University, working in collaboration with Prof. Marc Kamionkowski, Prof. Alex Szalay and Prof. Joe Silk, and by NASA to work at Jet Propulsion Laboratory with Dr. Olivier Doré.

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