On Wednesday 16th after the conference, from 19:00 to 20:00, we will have an outreach talk (in Spanish) by Dr. Prof. Jose Luis Bernal at la Casa de la Ciencia (next to the Meeting Venue, please check here the location). José Luis Bernal works as a Ramón y Cajal researcher at the Institute of Physics of Cantabria and the University of Cantabria. He holds a PhD in Physics from the University of Barcelona, and his research focuses on large-scale structure and the search for new techniques to study the Universe and test the nature of dark matter. Please, check the abstract of the talk below. We encourage everyone to attend after the conference!
Título (Title): El Universo, una ventana hacia el descubrimiento (The Universe, a window to discovery)
Resumen: Las observaciones cosmológicas y el estudio del Universo nos dan la oportunidad de poner a prueba nuestro entendimiento de la física en entornos que son inaccesibles en experimentos terrestres. Por ejemplo, nos proporcionaron la evidencia de que en entornos extremos la relatividad general da una mejor descripción que la ley de la gravedad de Newton. El estudio del Universo ha revelado también la existencia de dos componentes desconocidos del Universo: la materia oscura y la energía oscura. En esta conferencia comentaremos cómo se descubrieron estos misteriosos componentes y su relevancia en nuestra comprensión actual del Universo. Además, haremos un repaso de las medidas actuales, con especial atención a la velocidad actual de expansión del Universo, que pueden ser una pista de nueva física que tenemos que descubrir y describir para comprender el Universo.
Abstract: Cosmological observations and the study of the Universe give us the opportunity to test our understanding of physics in environments that are inaccessible to terrestrial experiments. For example, they have provided us with evidence that in extreme environments general relativity gives a better description than Newton's law of gravity. The study of the Universe has also revealed the existence of two unknown components of the Universe: dark matter and dark energy. In this lecture we will discuss how these mysterious components were discovered and their relevance to our current understanding of the Universe. In addition, we will review current measurements, with a particular focus on the current rate of expansion of the Universe, which may be a clue to new physics that we need to discover and describe in order to understand the Universe.
