Past and future physics lessons from the cosmic microwave background

Giorno 19 novembre 2026, con inizio alle ore 15:00, presso la Sala Conferenze del DFA e online a questo link, la Prof.ssa Elena Pierpaoli (University of Southern Calfornia, USA) terrà un seminario dal titolo Past and future physics lessons from the cosmic microwave background.

Modera il Dott. Carmelo Piazza (Dottorando in Fisica, 41° ciclo).

Il seminario appartiene al ciclo degli Highlights in Frontier Physics, nell'ambito delle attività del Dottorato di ricerca in Fisica.

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La Prof.ssa Pierpaoli è Incoming Visiting Professor presso il DFA nell'ambito del Programma di Mobilità Internazionale dell'Università di Catania.

Abstract. Over the past 25 years, studies of the cosmic microwave background have enabled the precise characterization of fundamental cosmological parameters and helped constrain processes in the early Universe, as well as the Universe’s dark matter and dark energy content. Current and upcoming experiments will build on these discoveries by enabling new strategies for constraining physical and cosmological models.I will review what we have learned so far and what we expect to learn from upcoming experiments.

Bio. Elena Pierpaoli is a theoretical cosmologist specializing in the data analysis of the cosmic microwave background and large-scale structure of the Universe. She pursued her undergraduate education at the University of Milano. She then received her PhD from the International School for Advanced Studies in Trieste. She was CITA National Fellow, and then research staff at Princeton University and research faculty at Caltech. Since 2011 she is full professor at the University of Southern California. She was part of the Planck core team and is now a member of the Simons Observatory collaboration.