SISSA Sciama Colloquium: 100 years of General Relativity | 24 October, 5 pm

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*100 years of General Relativity: From Einstein in 1915 to Relativistic 
Cosmology in the 21st Century **
*Sciama Colloquium by Pedro Ferreira of Oxford University

24 October, 5 pm
SISSA, Via Bonomea 265
"P. Budinich" Main Lecture Hall

Physical Cosmology is the success story of modern physics. Observations 
of the large scale structure of the universe have allowed us to 
characterize the cosmological model with unprecedented precision. What 
is less appreciated is that we have learnt a great deal about the 
building blocks of Relativistic Cosmology: about space-time, its origin 
and the role of general relativity in the evolution of the universe. In 
the Colloquium astrophysicist Pedro Ferreira will show how, over the 
last two decades, we have made tremendous progress in characterizing the 
overall metric of space-time- its homogeneity and isotropy- as well as 
its properties at very early times. He will show how exploring general 
relativity can play a crucial role in solving one of the big 
cosmological puzzles (the dark energy problem) and how cosmology can be 
used to find new, precision constraints on general relativity. Ferreira 
will discuss a vision of the future in which we attempt to completely 
map out the large scale characteristics of space-time using innovative 
techniques and future surveys.

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