Speaker: Licia Verde (ICREA, Barcelona)
Title: Model-agnostic analysis of large-scale structure and implications for cosmology
Abstract:
The standard cosmological model (the LCDM model) has been established and its parameters are now measured with unprecedented precision.  But precision is not enough: accuracy is also crucial. Feynman said: "The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.” In cosmology we only make observations, not experiments, so virtually every inference is heavily model-dependent. I will explore a couple of examples of how I think we can proceed as not to fool ourselves in the interpretation of forthcoming galaxy redshift surveys.