Joint Tufts / MIT Tuesday Cosmology Seminars

The seminar rotates between MIT and Tufts. The organizers are Alan Guth (guth@ctp.mit.edu) at MIT, and Alex Vilenkin (vilenkin@cosmos.phy.tufts.edu) at Tufts. These pages are maintained by Ken Olum (kdo@cosmos.phy.tufts.edu)

Seminars — Fall 2012

Date Location Speaker Title Links
September 25 Tufts Joseph Polchinski
Santa Barbara 		Black Holes: Complementarity or Firewalls? Poster
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October 2 MIT Alex Dahlen
Berkeley 		On ``Nothing'' Poster
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October 9 no seminar

October 16 Tufts Mark Hertzberg
MIT 		The Effective Field Theory of Cosmological Structure Formation Poster
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October 23 MIT Sean Carroll
Caltech 		Many Worlds, the Born Rule, and Self-Locating Uncertainty Poster
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October 30 Tufts Abhay Ashtekar
Pennsylvania State 		Talk canceled due to weather Poster
November 6 MIT Yasunori Nomura
Berkeley 		The Static Quantum Multiverse and Emergent Time in Our Universe Poster
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November 13 Tufts Jim Hartle
Santa Barbara 		From AdS to dS Through the Quantum State of the Universe Poster
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November 20 MIT Evangelos Sfakianaki
MIT 		Density Perturbations in Hybrid Inflation Using a Free Field Theory Time-Delay Approach Poster
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November 27 Tufts Misha Smolkin
Perimeter Institute 		Dual description of a 4d cosmology Poster
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December 4 MIT Mark Jackson
APC Paris 		Effective Field Theory in Inflation Poster
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Where and when

Unless otherwise noted, the seminars at both institutions are on Tuesdays at 2:30 pm.

Unless otherwise indicated, the seminars are held at:

TUFTS: Robinson Hall, Room 250 (refreshments are served at 2:00 in the Knipp library, Robinson Hall, 2nd floor)

MIT: Center for Theoretical Physics Cosman Seminar Room, Fourth Floor, Building 6C, Room 6C-442 (refreshments are served at 2:00 in the same room)

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