CANCELED: Probing the Dark Universe with present and future generations of experiments

by Valeria Pettorino (University of Geneva)

Wednesday 6 Feb 2013, 09:00 → 09:50 Europe/Stockholm

Nordita West Seminar Room

The Universe we live in is expanding with increasing velocity and ordinary atoms only account for a small fraction of the total energy budget.

I will give an overview of the Dark Universe and models beyond LCDM, both from a theoretical point of view and in connection to experiments.

On one side I will consider the possibility that non-minimal interactions to gravity may occur; on the other side, I will describe effects on the Cosmic Microwave Background and structure formation, in view of current experiments like Planck and future surveys like Euclid.