Video of This Lecture: With Jokes!

Cosmic Scalar Fields

• scalar fields in a nutshell
• fundamental(?) scalar fields exist in nature!
• scalar fields in a cosmological context

Dark Energy as Quintessence

• tracker evolution

Present Future Dark Energy Experiments

• ground based:
  • Dark Energy Survey: camera, first light
  • LSST
• space-based:
  • Euclid
  • WFIRST