New Directions in Bouncing Cosmologies – Anna M. Ijjas
Date: Tue. April 19th, 2016, 11:30 am-12:30 pmLocation: Rockefeller 221
In this talk, I will discuss novel ideas to smooth and flatten the universe and generate nearly scale-invariant perturbations during a contracting phase that precedes a cosmological bounce. I will also present some recent work on the possibility of having well-behaved non-singular bounces.