Séminaires LLR

A Brief History of the Cosmos

par Pisin Chen (National Taiwan University)

Europe/Paris
Description

This 1 st Blaise Pascal Chair Lecture provides an overview of the scope of this series of seminars on “The Extreme Cosmos: From the Big Bang to Black Holes”. A brief history of the universe is introduced, from the big bang, the inflation at early times, to the accelerating expansion of the universe at late times. We will also review our current understanding of different compositions of the universe and their evolution and discuss the unresolved issues.