Signs of Inflation
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Dave Heller and Derrick Pitts, chief astronomer at the Franklin Institute, discuss efforts to peer all the way back in time and space with:
- Renee Hlozek: Professor, University of Toronto, Dunlap Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics
- Jack Orlowski Scherer: Postdoctoral researcher, University of Pennsylvania
- Kasey Wagoner: Lecturer, Princeton, Department of Physics
They are in Philadelphia for a meeting at the University of Pennsylvania with the Simons Observatory regarding the Atacama Cosmology Telescope.
Image: M. Devlin. (M. Devlin, University of Pennsylvania) [CC BY-SA 4.0], via Wikimedia Commons
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