Speaker
Lotfi Boubekeur
(IFIC, Valencia)
Description
Inflation is by far the leading theory explaining the initial conditions of our universe. Its predictions are consistent with all existing experimental probes, yet it lacks firm observational evidence. I will give an overview of the theoretical status of inflationary scenarios, in a model-independent way. I will explain how inflationary predictions are related to fundamental physics and what are the ensuing theoretical problems.
