The 2nd International Symposium on Cosmology and Ali CMB Polarization Telescope

PICO is a probe-class space mission that will be considered for implementation by the US Astro2020 decadal panel. Probe-class missions have a cost window of $400M-$1000M. The mission is designed to give a next-decade millimeter/sub-millimeter survey of the sky in intensity and polarization with depth equivalent to more than 3000 Planck missions. I will describe the science objectives of the...

Most of the emphasis so far on connecting CMB observations to theories of the primordial universe has focused on exploiting the primordial power spectrum. However the constraints established on the maximum amount of non-Gaussianity allowed severely limit the scope for alternative models. I will review these developments as well as the prospects for improving on current observations. I will...

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