Jochen Liske
University of Hamburg

Abstract
Over the course of the past several decades, Observational Cosmology has made great progress in establishing a standard model of cosmology: LambdaCDM. This model successfully reproduces and explains a vast array of cosmological observations. These successes notwithstanding, LambdaCDM continues to be plagued by several rather obvious and fundamental issues, including: What is Dark Matter? What causes the acceleration of the expansion of the Universe? Why do different types of measurements of the current expansion rate yield different results? In this personally biased talk I will review some aspects of the current status of these issues and introduce some of the new observational facilities that will be brought to bear on them.

2024 March 07, 14:30

IA/U.Porto
Centro de Astrofísica da Universidade do Porto (Auditorium)
Rua das Estrelas, 4150-762 Porto