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 — Spring 2016

Date Location Speaker Title Links
February 2 Tufts Johanna Karouby
Tufts
From condensed matter to quantum gravity: gravitational Casimir Polder forces between polarizable objects Poster
Abstract
February 9 No seminar

February 16 Tufts Matt Kleban
NYU
Inhomogeneous and Anisotropic Cosmology Poster
Abstract
February 23 MIT Mohammad Hossein Namjoo
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
The Asymmetric Universe Poster
Abstract
March 1 Tufts Francis-Yan Cyr-Racine
Harvard
From dark particle physics to the matter distribution of the Universe and beyond Poster
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March 8 MIT Jun Zhang
Tufts
Black Holes and the Multiverse Poster
Abstract
March 15 Tufts Mark Trodden
University of Pennsylvania
Generalizing Galileons, Modified Gravity and New Field Theories Poster
Abstract
March 22 No seminar

March 29 No seminar

April 5 Tufts Scott Hughes
MIT
Our ears are open: Listening to two-body dynamics with gravitational waves Poster
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April 12 MIT Evan McDonough
McGill
Preheating in Axion Inflation Models Poster
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April 19 Tufts Raphael Flauger
UT Austin
Planck, BICEP, and the Early Universe Poster
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April 26 MIT Dhrubo Jyoti
Dartmouth
Inflation and the quantum measurement problem 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: 574 Boston Ave, Room 310 (refreshments are served at 2:00, outside room 304)

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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