PASCOS 2021

Session

Plenary 4

Jun 15, 2021, 5:20 PM

ZOOM (Online) (IBS)

Conveners

Plenary 4

• Arman Shafieloo (KASI)

8. Status of cosmological tensions and prospects for the future

Silvia Galli (Sorbonne U./IAP)

6/15/21, 5:20 PM

I will review the status of cosmological tensions such as the Hubble tension and the prospects for upcoming CMB measurements.

9. Testing General Relativity with Cosmological observations

Ruth Durrer (U. of Geneva)

6/15/21, 6:00 PM

General Relativity (GR) is immensely successful. With the late discovery of gravitational waves from black hole and neutron star mergers, it has passed all the tests with flying colors. But so far, all observations have mainly tested the vacuum equations of GR. The most important non-vacuum case, cosmology, is in agreement with GR only after the introduction of two otherwise unknown...