Inflation, strings and the CMB – Ana Achucarro
Date: Tue. November 2nd, 2004, 11:30 am-12:30 pmLocation: Rockefeller 221
In the last year there has been a sudden renewal of interest in cosmic (super)string networks. I will explain why and will discuss – in a non-technical way – some new cosmological models coming from superstring/supergravity theory, and how to constrain these models by their cosmic string production after inflation.