Gil Holder, McGill University, "Gravitational Lensing of the Cosmic Microwave Background"
May 16, 2012 @ 3:30 PM
Gravitational lensing of the temperature and polarization anisotropies of the CMB is rapidly emerging as a new cosmological tool. Current experiments (as an example, I will focus on the South Pole Telescope) are using this effect to make mass maps over large areas.