Quantifying Dark Energy using Cosmic Lensing

Quantifying Dark Energy using Cosmic Lensing I will describe the great potential and possible limitations of using the bending of light by gravity (gravitational lensing) to constrain the mysterious dark energy which seems to dominate the contents of our Universe. In...

Fermi and the surprises of the gamma-ray sky

Fermi and the surprises of the gamma-ray sky In its first six years of operations, the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has revolutionized our view of the gamma-ray Universe. The Large Area Telescope (LAT), the main instrument onboard Fermi, has discovered more than...

Fermi i les sorpreses del cel en rajos gamma [NOT TRANSLATED]

Fermi i les sorpreses del cel en rajos gamma [NOT TRANSLATED] In its first six years of operations, the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has revolutionized our view of the gamma-ray Universe. The Large Area Telescope (LAT), the main instrument onboard Fermi, has...

Intrinsic alignments: theoretical and numerical insights

Intrinsic alignments: theoretical and numerical insights In this talk, I will show how both dark matter and hydrodynamical simulations predict that the morphology of galaxies is correlated with the cosmic web. This large-scale coherence of galaxy shapes could possibly...