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 |
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 |
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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 Abstract |
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 |
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March 29 | No seminar |
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April 5 | Tufts |
Scott Hughes MIT |
Our ears are open: Listening to two-body dynamics with gravitational waves | Poster Abstract |
April 12 | MIT |
Evan McDonough McGill |
Preheating in Axion Inflation Models | Poster Abstract |
April 19 | Tufts |
Raphael Flauger UT Austin |
Planck, BICEP, and the Early Universe | Poster Abstract |
April 26 | MIT |
Dhrubo Jyoti Dartmouth |
Inflation and the quantum measurement problem | 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)