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The Ohio State University
College of Mathematical & Physical Sciences
Department of Astronomy Colloquium Series 2006/7
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Thursday, Nov 30, 3:30 p.m.
2015 McPherson Laboratory
From the Littlest to the Largest: from
QCD to the LBT
Mandeep Gill
CCAPP Fellow, The Ohio State University
In this seminar I will focus on the historically fairly disparate
cultures of experimental HEP (high energy physics) and astronomy and my
experience in watching them come to coalesce in recent times more than
ever before. Beginning with a description of HEP, I will go into a
discussion of my work on the measurement of the wavefunction of the B
meson, and how this fits into the larger picture of obtaining precision
SM (Standard Model) parameters. I then go on to how the quest to obtain
these SM parameters has been informed by various astronomical
observations over time, its current status, and lastly what some of the
most exciting developments and expectations for this field in this era
are. I also then will discuss where HEP feeds into current-day work in
early Universe cosmology, and specifically, I will describe some of the
work in galaxy cluster and cosmological weak lensing that is taking
place on the largest modern optical telescopes, and what the OWLS (OSU
Weak Lensing Survey) Project on the LBT may have to contribute to
obtaining cosmological parameters in the coming period.
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