Stony Brook University
Harriman Hall, Room 137
7:30 pm, Friday, April 05, 2024
The Cosmic Microwave Background and the Big Bang Theory
Dr. Joshua Kable
The Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) is relic radiation left over from the big bang. It provides a snapshot of what the universe looked like when it was only 380,000 years old, which in the past six decades has been a powerful probe of the fundamental nature of our universe on cosmological scales. In this talk, Dr. Kable will outline the history of the discovery of the CMB, its role in solidifying the big bang theory as the standard model of cosmology, and the current and future prospects of CMB measurements.
Dr. Joshua Kable started as a postdoctoral researcher at the C.N. Yang Institute for Theoretical Physics at Stony Brook University in September 2022. He completed his PhD work at Johns Hopkins University in June 2022, and he completed his undergraduate education in physics at University of Illinois Urbana Champaign in 2016. Joshua Kable is broadly interested in understanding physics on cosmological scales with a particular focus on studying the Cosmic Microwave Background radiation. His scientific expertise is in assessing the consistency of various cosmological models with current cosmological data.
