Physical Society Colloquium

Interview for Faculty Position

Probing the opposite ends of time with the Cosmic Background Radiation

Matt Dobbs

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

With these observations, we'll gain insight into the origins of the universe using the CMB polarization, which may encode information transmitted by gravity waves from an inflationary era at the earliest instants of space-time. The Sunyaev Zeldovich effect allows us to catalog distant galaxy clusters, providing a measure of the scale evolution of the universe - and hence its fate. Together these observations have the potential to revolutionize our understanding of the universe in which we live.