Primordial Non-Gaussianity and the Distribution of Galaxies on Large Scales

by Prof. Mark Wise (California Institute of Technology)

Wednesday 21 Mar 2018, 14:00 → 15:00 Asia/Shanghai

B105 (CHEP)

Primordial non-Gaussian fluctuations in the mass density can give rise to unusual signatures in the large scale distribution of galaxies. These arise partly because galaxies do not trace the mass density. I review a possible mechanism for generating such fluctuations during an inflationary era in the early universe and briefly discuss the prospects for observing them in upcoming galactic surveys. Prof. Mark Wise is currently the John A. McCone Professor of High Energy Physics at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). He got his Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1980. Then he was a junior fellow at Harvard from 1980 to 1983. He has been at Caltech since then. Prof. Wise is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and of the National Academy of Sciences. He did important works in almost all aspects of theoretical particle physics. The total citation of his work has been over 35,000 times. He shared the 2001 Sakurai Prize for Theoretical Particle Physics with Nathan Isgur and Mikhail Voloshin for the construction of the heavy quark effective field theory. Besides his contributions to particle physics. Prof. Wise co-authored a book about finance and investing. Prof. Wise was also the science consultant of Iron Man 2.