Current Status of Cosmological Inflation

por Julien Lesgourgues (LAPTH Annecy)

martes 6 feb. 2007 12:30 → 13:30 Europe/Madrid

Sala Seminarios IFIC (Edf. Institutos de Investigación)

Cosmological inflation is a successful paradigm providing self-consistent initial conditions to the standard cosmological scenario, and explaining the generation of primordial cosmological perturbations. I will recall the main motivations for inflation and explain why current observations provide some indirect --but rather convincing-- evidence in favor of inflation. Finally, I will present some up-to-date constraints on various inflationary models.