Title: CDM models with negative pressure
Author(s): S. Basilakos (Best PhD Talk)
Contact: S. Basilakos, Imperial College, Astrophysics Group, s.basilakos@ic.ac.uk

ABSTRACT
The available high quality cosmological data (like SN Ia, CMB, ect) are well fitted by an emerging ''standard model'' which contains cold dark matter (CDM) to explain clustering and dark energy (negative pressure) to close the Universe. In this work we investigate all the neoclassical tests of the above ''standard model'' as well as its variants (Quintessence Cosmology) in order to understand better the theoretical expectations of this models and compare with the available data.