Chennai Mathematical Institute

Seminars




A brief history of the universe
L. Sriramkumar
Harish-Chandra Research Institute, Allahabad.
16-01-08


Abstract

After a pictorial survey of the universe and an outline of the observational reasons behind our empirical understanding of its contents, I present a brief history of universe -- from the generation of perturbations during inflation, through nucleosynthesis and decoupling, to the formation of large scale structures.