ABSTRACT
Axion inflation has gotten a lot of attention recently. We will discuss its basics, especially when coupled to gauge fields, as well as its cosmological implications such as primordial black holes, primordial gravitational waves, and cosmic parity violation.
BIOGRAPHY
Kin-Wang Ng obtained his Ph.D. in Physics from University of Minnesota, Minneapolis in 1989. He was recruited as a postdoctoral fellow in Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica and has become a faculty member since then. He is also a joint research fellow of Institute of Physics and Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Academia Sinica. His major research interests are astroparticle physics and cosmology. He has made prominent contributions to indirect detection of dark matter, cosmic microwave background polarization, inflationary black holes and gravitational waves. He served the Executive Committee member of National Center for Theoretical Sciences and the General Council member of Asian Pacific Center for Theoretical Physics. He is the recipient of the 1998 Academia Sinica Early-Career Investigator Research Achievement Award and the 2025 Stanford/Elsevier's Top 2% Scientists.
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