Why the Vacuum Energy is Enormous (Just Not Here and Now)
Anthony Aguirre University of California, Santa Cruz
Cosmologists at Perimeter Institute seek to help pin down the constituents and history of our universe, and the rules governing its origin and evolution. Many of the most interesting clues about physics beyond the standard model (e.g., dark matter, dark energy, the matter/anti-matter asymmetry, and the spectrum of primordial density perturbations) come from cosmological observations, and cosmological observations are often the best way to test or constrain a proposed modification of the laws of nature, since such observations can probe length scales, time scales, and energy scales that are beyond the reach of terrestrial laboratories.
Anthony Aguirre University of California, Santa Cruz
G. Watson University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Fernando Quevedo University of Cambridge
Susha Parameswaran University of Liverpool
Gregory Gabadadze New York University (NYU)
Christof Wetterich Universität Heidelberg
Neil Turok University of Edinburgh