ICTP-EAIFR is pleased that Dr. Marcello Musso, Distinguished Researcher at the Universidad de Salamanca (Spain), will give us  seminar on October 31, 2024 at 4:00 p.m. (Kigali time).

Physical Venue: ICTP-EAIFR Conference room, fifth floor Einstein Building, CST Campus, University of Rwanda.

Title: The Cosmic Web. A brief introduction to analytical methods.

Abstract: Matter is not uniformly distributed in the Universe. Tracing the distribution of galaxies reveals a complex network of filamentary structures intersecting each other at high density nodes and separated by large voids. This structure, known as the Cosmic Web, originated through gravitational instability from nearly homogeneous initial conditions. Studying its statistical properties can thus shed a light on the main constituents of the Universe and on the physical processes taking place at very early times. Although N-body simulations are the work horse of this investigation, analytical methods play a fundamental role in understanding the qualitative trends. I will provide a quick introduction to the main analytical tools used in the field and show some interesting new results.

Biography: Dr. Marcello Musso is a researcher at the University of Salamanca (Spain). He has previously held a faculty position at ICTP-EAIFR (Rwanda), and postdoctoral positions at the University of Texas at Austin (USA), the ICTP (Italy), the Université Catholique de Louvain (Belgium), the University of Pennsylvania (USA) and the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics (Germany).
He has worked extensively on a broad range of topics in Cosmology, studying the generation and growth of inhomogeneities in the Universe at various epochs, from the generation of primordial perturbations during inflation to the formation and evolution of the presently observable cosmic structures.