ICTP COLLOQUIUM on Thursday 12 May at 17:00 in MLH, LB.

[Info Point]

*ICTP COLLOQUIUM*

*17:00, Thursday, 12 May 2011*

*Main Lecture Hall, Leonardo Building, ICTP*

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*Professor Alexander Vilenkin*

*Director of the Institute of Cosmology*

*Tufts University*

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*The principle of mediocrity*

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*Abstract*

*The new worldview that has emerged from inflationary cosmology suggests 
that distant parts of the universe are strikingly different from our 
local region. Most, if not all of these remote domains are beyond our 
cosmic horizon and cannot be directly observed. I will discuss the 
origin of the new worldview, the conceptual problems that it raised, and 
its possible observational tests.***

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