First Results from MAP
Professor David Spergel
Princeton University
4:15-5:15 Tuesday February 11, 2003
Abstract
The new results from the Microwave Anisotropy Probe (MAP) have
important implications for our understanding of cosmology. We can
extrapolate forwards in time from z = 1100 and compare the predicted
properties of the universe to astronomical observations at z < 6. We
can also extrapolate backwards in time and gain new insights into the
physics of the early universe. While MAP answers many of the
traditional questions that have been the focus of cosmology, it raises
a whole new set of questions. I will review the recent results and
then look forward to what we will be able to learn in the coming years
from combining MAP with various SDSS data sets, from upcoming MAP data
and from future CMB experiments.