Speaker
Glenn Starkman
Date
Fri February 21st 2025, 3:00 - 5:00pm
Affiliation
Case Western Reserve University
Location
Varian 312
Event Topic
We have long celebrated the great success of cosmology in predicting the observed properties of the cosmic microwave background. And yet, for well over two decades there has been consistent and slowly mounting evidence that on large scales the CMB is anomalous. The evidence is consistent from experiment to experiment and it implies the violation of statistical isotropy. I will discuss this evidence, why it is so compelling, and where it may be pointing us.