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 |
August 30 | Tufts |
Tanmay Vachaspati Arizona State |
Special Seminar: Fundamental Implications of Intergalactic Magnetic Field Observations | Poster Abstract |
September 13 | Tufts |
David Rideout UCSD |
Special Seminar: Evaluating the Gravitational Path Sum in Causal Set Quantum Gravity | Poster Abstract |
September 27 | MIT | No seminar | ||
October 4 | Tufts |
Burkhard Schwab Harvard |
Black Hole Absorption Rates from Conservation Laws | Poster Abstract |
October 11 | MIT | No seminar | ||
October 18 | Tufts |
Ben Heidenreich Perimeter |
Inflation, Quantum Gravity, and the Weak Gravity Conjecture | Poster Abstract |
October 25 | MIT |
Lena Funcke MPP and LMU Munich |
Rethinking the Origin of Small Neutrino Masses | Poster Abstract |
November 1 | Tufts |
Cora Dvorkin Harvard |
New Frontiers in Cosmology | Poster |
November 8 | MIT | No seminar | ||
November 15 | Tufts |
Ken Van Tilburg NYU and IAS |
A small weak scale from a small cosmological constant | Poster Abstract |
November 22 | MIT |
Thomas Bachlechner Columbia |
Vacuum Decay and Inflation | Poster Abstract |
November 29 | Tufts |
Gia Dvali NYU |
Black hole hair: Quantum and Classical | Poster Abstract |
December 6 | MIT |
Ali Masoumi Tufts |
Quantum tunneling in multi-field theories | Poster Abstract |
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)