ICTP Colloquium on "Cosmology and Unification" 

ICTP's series of high-level colloquia showcases top scientists in their fields. On Wednesday 28 June, Raman Sundrum of the University of Maryland, an eminent theoretical physicist, will give a colloquium lecture on Cosmology and Unification. The talk takes place in ICTP's Budinich Lecture Hall and also will be livestreamed on the Centre's YouTube channel. 

Sundrum will review the mechanism of “cosmological collider physics” in which future precision cosmological measurements may allow us to probe particle physics and cosmic inflation at energies which are orders of magnitude above those of terrestrial particle colliders such as the LHC. He will apply this mechanism to searching for remnants of the grand unification of (non-gravitational) fundamental forces and other plausible high energy "targets" and discuss recent work showing how gravitational wave cosmology may provide complementary insights on inflationary dynamics in the very early universe.

Raman Sundrum is the John S. Toll Chair and Distinguished University Professor of Physics at the University of Maryland, College Park. He also is the Director of the Maryland Center for Fundamental Physics. Previously, he was the Alumni Centennial Chair in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the Johns Hopkins University. He earned his BSc in Mathematics at the University of Sydney in Australia and his PhD in theoretical particle physics at Yale. He did postdoctoral research at Berkeley, Harvard, Boston University, and Stanford.

He works on theoretical particle physics, primarily the structure of the fundamental forces and their connections to possible extensions of relativistic spacetime, such as supersymmetry and extra dimensions. He also studies their possible roles in the very early Universe. His research provides theoretical templates for a broad range of experiments, from the CERN Large Hadron Collider to precision cosmological measurements.

More details about the event can be found here.