Parity Violation in Cosmology by Prof. Eiichiro Komatsu

About the Speaker: Prof. Eiichiro Komatsu is the Director of the Department of Physical Cosmology, Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics in Garching, Germany. He obtained his doctoral degree from Tohoku University in Japan in 2001. While working on his doctoral thesis, he joined the WMAP science team at Princeton, where he later did his postdoc. Komatsu joined the University of Texas at Austin in 2003 as a faculty member and then became the Director of the Texas Cosmology Center. In 2004, he received the Young Astronomers Award from the Astronomical Society of Japan for his work on constraining inflationary models of the early universe, and in 2010, the Nishinomiya-Yukawa Memorial Prize for physics for his studies of the early universe, as well as several other awards and fellowships. He is interested in and works on all aspects of physical cosmology.

Abstract: Parity symmetry is known to be violated in the weak interaction. Do the physical laws behind the unsolved problems of modern cosmology – cosmic inflation, dark matter, and dark energy – also violate parity symmetry? In this talk, we will discuss theoretical and observational possibilities of parity violation in cosmology, a topic that has received much attention in recent years.

The recording of the talk is available on the CMB-Bharat YouTube channel.