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)
Date | Location | Speaker | Title | Links |
September 10 | Tufts |
Leandros Perivolaropoulos University of Ioannina |
Is there a fundamental cosmic dipole? | Poster Abstract |
September 17 | MIT |
David Marsh Perimeter Institute |
Cosmology of the String Axiverse | Poster Abstract |
September 24 | Tufts |
Alexander Kamenshchik University of Bologna |
Wave function of the Universe, Wheeler-DeWitt equation and inflation | Poster Abstract |
October 1 | MIT |
Saso Grozdanov Oxford University |
Towards Classification of Hydrodynamics: From Effective Field Theory to AdS/CFT | Poster Abstract |
October 8 | Tufts |
Sarah Shandera Penn State |
Cosmic variance, statistical naturalness and non-Gaussianity | Poster Abstract |
October 15 | No seminar |
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October 22 | MIT |
Tracy Slatyer MIT |
Dark Matter Annihilation and the Cosmic Microwave Background | Poster Abstract |
October 29 | Tufts |
Guido D'Amico NYU |
CMB anomalies from primordial dissipation | Poster Abstract |
November 5 | MIT |
Evangelos Sfakianakis MIT |
Multifield Inflation with Nonminimal Couplings: Lessons from PLANCK | Poster Abstract |
November 12 | Tufts |
Samir Mathur Ohio State |
Fuzzballs, firewalls, and all that | Poster Abstract |
November 19 | MIT |
Andrew Friedman MIT |
Testing Quantum Mechanics and Bell's Inequality with Observations of Causally Disconnected Cosmological Events | Poster Abstract |
November 26 | Tufts |
Ali Masoumi Tufts |
Naturalness of low energy de-Sitters in Einstein-Maxwell landscape | Poster Abstract |
December 3 | Tufts |
Xavier Calmet Sussex |
The gravitational interactions of the Higgs boson | Poster Abstract |
MIT: Center for Theoretical Physics Cosman Seminar Room, Fourth Floor, Building 6C, Room 6C-442 (refreshments are served at 2:00 (2:30 in Fall 2013) in the same room)