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<span class="contentpasted0"><b><i><span style="font-size:26.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">A Window on the Universe With the Next-Generation of Millimeter-Wave Telescopes</span></i></b></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></i></b></span><span class="contentpasted0"><b><span style="font-size:28.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;background:white">Vergès</span></b></span><b><i><span style="font-size:26.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><br>
</span></i></b><span class="contentpasted0"><i><span style="font-size:24.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Harvard University</span></i></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b>Abstract: </b></span><span class="contentpasted0"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:black">Cosmology has experienced a considerable surge in the past thirty years, and is now well established as a precision science. While
the standard cosmological model provides an effective description of the observed Universe, many fundamental questions remain unresolved. From shedding light on the very first fractions of seconds after the Big Bang to unveiling the dark Universe and looking
for exotic physics, the Cosmic Microwave Background continues to be a unique probe for fundamental physics. The next generation of CMB polarisation observatories, embodied by CMB-Stage 4 for ground observations, will explore this window into the Universe in
an unprecedented way, enabling breakthrough science. I will review how current experiments such as the BICEP/Keck telescopes pave the way for this next stage, by developing efficient technologies and observing strategies, and by sharpening constraints on theoretical
models. I will then discuss the technological challenges that the CMB community must meet to ensure the scientific success of future experiments and <span style="border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">push further our understanding of the Universe’s fundamental
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<p class="default" align="center" style="text-align:center;background:white"><span class="contentpasted0"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#2F5496">2:00 p.m. in the Physics Reading Room (3035)</span></b></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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