Colloquium/Symposium

COLLOQUIUM: "Gravitational waves from inflation" by Ema Dimastrogiovanni (RUG Groningen)

Name: COLLOQUIUM: "Gravitational waves from inflation" by Ema Dimastrogiovanni (RUG Groningen)
Start: 2022-01-14T11:00:00+01:00
End: 2022-01-14T12:00:00+01:00
Location: No location set

Friday 14 Jan 2022, 11:00 → 12:00 Europe/Amsterdam

Description

Primordial gravitational waves have the potential to shed new light on the very early universe. In this talk I discuss gravitational wave production in a variety of inflationary models beyond the simplest, single-field, scenarios and highlight some of their implications for testing inflation with interferometers. I also discuss how anisotropies in the gravitational wave energy density can be a powerful tool in characterizing the inflationary gravitational wave background and potentially distinguishing it from backgrounds due to other sources.