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 2013

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

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


Where and when

In Fall 2013, MIT seminars start at 2:45pm and Tufts seminars at 2:30pm

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 (2:30 in Fall 2013) in the same room)

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