Physical Society Colloquium
String Theory and Inflation:
The Start of a Beautiful
Relationship?
Cliff Burgess
Physics Department
McGill University
String theory is our best candidate for a theory of the physics at very short
distances, but is very much a theory in search of an observable application.
Inflation is a very successful phenomenological theory of cosmological
initial conditions, but has proven difficult to embed into a real theory of
short distances. Is each one the answer to the other's problem? I will
describe the recent progress which has been made in bringing these two
theories together.
Friday, February 7th 2003, 15:30
Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, Keys Auditorium (room 112)
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