Name: Kin-Wang Ng
 Institution: Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica
 Title: Towards understanding large-scale CMB anomalies
 Key Words: inflation; quantum fluctuations; CMB
 Abstract: Recent measurements of the large-scale CMB anisotropy made by WMAP indicate a reflection asymmetry, an axis of evil, a low quadrupole, and a few multipoles deviated from the Lambda-CDM model prediction. All of these may give us a hint about the physical conditions during inflation. Efforts taken along this direction will be reviewed and I will also talk about our recent work.