{"id":719,"date":"2025-01-12T20:25:26","date_gmt":"2025-01-12T18:25:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tp.lc.ehu.es\/iberianstrings25\/?page_id=719"},"modified":"2025-01-12T21:13:12","modified_gmt":"2025-01-12T19:13:12","slug":"joseph-conlon-talks-joseph-conlon","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/tp.lc.ehu.es\/iberianstrings25\/index.php\/joseph-conlon-talks-joseph-conlon\/","title":{"rendered":"Joseph Conlon"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Oxford University, <em>Oxford, UK<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>String Theory and the First Half of the Universe<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Abstract:&nbsp; The period between inflation and nucleosynthesis can last for thirty orders of magnitude <br>of time and represent half the lifetime of the universe <br>on a logarithmic scale. But yet, there are minimal&nbsp; observational constraints on this epoch. String cosmologies motivate a&nbsp;rich set of modifications <br>from the standard radiation-dominated&nbsp;post-inflationary assumption of Lambda CDM. In particular, string&nbsp;cosmology suggests the likelihood of moduli-dominated cosmologies&nbsp;through kination, tracker and matter epochs. I review the possible&nbsp;scenarios and observational possibilities, including a novel&nbsp;percolation scenario for formation of cosmic string networks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oxford University, Oxford, UK String Theory and the First Half of the Universe Abstract:&nbsp; The period between inflation and nucleosynthesis can last for thirty orders of magnitude of time and represent half the lifetime of the universe on a logarithmic scale. But yet, there are minimal&nbsp; observational constraints on this epoch. String cosmologies motivate a&nbsp;rich [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-719","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tp.lc.ehu.es\/iberianstrings25\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/719"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tp.lc.ehu.es\/iberianstrings25\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tp.lc.ehu.es\/iberianstrings25\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tp.lc.ehu.es\/iberianstrings25\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tp.lc.ehu.es\/iberianstrings25\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=719"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/tp.lc.ehu.es\/iberianstrings25\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":729,"href":"http:\/\/tp.lc.ehu.es\/iberianstrings25\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/719\/revisions\/729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tp.lc.ehu.es\/iberianstrings25\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}