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SUMMARY:The Origin of Cosmic Structure
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DESCRIPTION:Cosmology confronts some of the most fundamental questions \ni
 n the whole of science. How and when did our universe begin? What is it ma
 de of?  How did it acquire its present day appearance?  There has been eno
 rmous progress in the past few years towards answering these questions. Fo
 r example\, recent observations have established that our universe contain
 s an unexpected mix of components that include not only ordinary atoms\, b
 ut also exotic dark matter and a new form of\nenergy called dark energy. O
 bservations of the microwave background radiation reveal incipient structu
 re\, while gigantic surveys of galaxies\, like the recently completed 2-de
 gree-field at the Anglo-Australian Telescope\, reveal how the universe is 
 structured today. Large supercomputer simulations can recreate the evoluti
 on of the universe and provide the means to relate processes occuring near
 \nthe beginning of the Universe with the structures seen today. A coherent
  picture of cosmic evolution\, going back to about a\nmicro-second after t
 he Big Bang\, is beginning to emerge. However fundamental issues\, like th
 e nature of the dark energy\, remain unsolved. These will require understa
 nding events that took place at even earlier times.\n\nhttps://indico.ific
 .uv.es/event/794/
LOCATION:Edf. Institutos de Investigación Sala Seminarios IFIC
URL:https://indico.ific.uv.es/event/794/
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