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This lecture by the instructor focuses on a thermally complete study of inflationary predictions, covering topics such as the interaction between inflaton and medium, linear response evolution equations, non-Abelian axion inflation, gravitational wave production, and reheating. The lecture delves into the implications of thermal corrections, benchmark solutions, and the consequences for gravitational waves. It also discusses the emergence of the Standard Model sector towards the end of reheating and the different contributions to the gravitational wave spectrum. The study aims to impose observational bounds and explore phase transitions at higher energy scales.