UC Berkeley: 2021 Gruber Cosmology Prize

Berkeley CA

07 May, 2021

1:43 AM

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Press release from the University of California, Berkeley: Marc Kamionkowski, Uroš Seljak, and Matias Zaldarriaga have introduced numerous techniques for the study of the large-scale structure of the universe as well as the properties of its first instant of existence. Their work includes a mathematical means for studying the early universe that not only has allowed both theorists and observers to test and ultimately embrace a standard cosmological model but, in the coming decade, will allow researchers to probe the existence of gravitational waves in the so-called inflationary era, when the age of the universe was 10-35 seconds. Matias Zaldarriaga Photo Credit: Andrea Kane, Institute for Advanced Study This press release was produced by the University of California, Berkeley. The views expressed here are the author's own.