17–22 Jun 2018
DESY in Hamburg
Europe/Berlin timezone

Gravitational waves and modified gravity

19 Jun 2018, 09:00
35m
Auditorium (DESY in Hamburg)

Auditorium

DESY in Hamburg

Notkestraße 85 22607 Hamburg Germany
Presentation

Speaker

Dr Ignacy Sawicki (CEICO, Institute of Physics, Czech Academy of Sciences)

Description

I will discuss the implication of the recent measurement by LIGO of the speed of gravitational waves on models of modified gravity, mainly for mechanisms for acceleration but also for alternatives to dark matter. I will discuss the remaining parameter space and the sort of physics we might still expect to see in the upcoming generation of cosmological surveys focused on measuring the properties of the dark sector.

Primary author

Dr Ignacy Sawicki (CEICO, Institute of Physics, Czech Academy of Sciences)

Presentation materials