Instituto de Física Teórica UAM/CSIC

Topic: The Universe structure
Title: Cosmology in our backyard
Lecturer: Carlos Frenk (ICC Durham University)
Dates & times: Friday, 27 April, 2012 - 15:30
Venue: Blue Room, IFT


The LCDM cosmological model accounts surprisingly well for an impressive array of data on the large-scale structure of the universe, from scales of a few megaparsecs to a few gigaparsecs. On submegaparsec scales, however, the model cannot be tested with the same degree of rigour as on larger scales where microwave background radiation data and measures of galaxy clustering provide clean and well-understood diagnostics. Read more