Speaker
Mario Ballardini
Description
The standard cosmological model successfully describes a wide range of observations, yet the nature of dark matter and dark energy remains unknown. Euclid is ESA’s space mission designed to address these questions by mapping the extragalactic sky with high-resolution optical imaging and near-infrared photometry and spectroscopy. Its main cosmological probes, weak gravitational lensing and galaxy clustering, will trace the growth of structure and the expansion history of the Universe across cosmic time. In this talk I will present an overview of the Euclid mission and highlight its most recent scientific results, from the first data releases to early demonstrations of Euclid’s capability to map the dark Universe.