Peaks and Troughs in Large Scale Structure – Ravi K. Sheth

Date: Tue. November 4th, 2014, 11:30 am-12:30 pm
Location: Rockefeller 221

I will reiew recent and substantial progress in modeling the cosmic web. This progress, which results from merging two different and decades old literature streams, leads to a number of new and interesting insights about how the biased tracers we will observe in the next generation of large scale structure datasets can better constrain cosmological models.