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Physics Club - Nikhil Padmanabhan - Yale University

Event time: 
Monday, April 14, 2025 - 3:30pm to 4:30pm
Location: 
Sloane Physics Laboratory, Room 57 See map
217 Prospect Street
New Haven, CT 06511
Speaker/Performer: 
Nikhil Padmanabhan - Yale University

Admission: 
Free
Event description: 

“Measuring the Expansion History of the Universe with DESI”

The DESI survey has just released its second set of results on the expansion history of the Universe. I’ll review the underlying technique of baryon acoustic oscillations, the measurements from DESI and the challenges it poses to the standard cosmological model.