Informal Pizza Seminar

Cosmological Consequences of the Formation of Cosmic Strings

Martin Landriau

Department of Astronomy
University of Texas at Austin
&
Danish National Space Center

The last few years have seen a revival of interest in cosmic strings, mainly emanating from theoretical physics. After a short historical introduction, I will review the possible ways of detecting cosmic strings, with emphasis on current probes and surveys and conclude by presenting our most recent results.