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Daniel Eisenstein to present The Raymond & Beverly Sackler Lecture in Astrophysics
Thu, Dec 3, 2015, 8:00 pm10:30 pm

"Dark Energy and Cosmic Sound" Sound waves propagating through the plasma of the Universe only 400,000 years after the Big Bang now offer some of our most precise measures of the composition and history of the Universe. In the last decade, we have been able to detect the fossil imprint of these sound waves using maps of the distribution of…

Raymond & Beverly Sackler Lecture in Astrophysics, Daniel Eisenstein "Dark Energy and Cosmic Sound"
Thu, Mar 5, 2015, 8:00 pm10:30 pm

Sound waves propagating through the plasma of the Universe only 400,000 years after the Big Bang now offer some of our most precise measures of the composition and history of the Universe. In the last decade, we have been able to detect the fossil imprint of these sound waves using maps of the distribution of galaxies from the Sloan Digital…