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 Mark Hertzberg Mark.Hertzberg@tufts.edu and Alex Vilenkin (vilenkin@cosmos.phy.tufts.edu) at Tufts. These pages are maintained by Ken Olum (kdo@cosmos.phy.tufts.edu)


Seminars — Spring 2018

Date Location Speaker Title Links
February 6 Tufts Albion Lawrence
Brandeis
Effective field theory for axion monodromy inflation Poster
Abstract
February 13 MIT Austin Joyce
Columbia
Spin-2 scattering amplitudes and asymptotic superluminality Poster
Abstract
February 20 Tufts Cody Long
Northeastern
Vacuum Selection from Cosmology on Networks of String Vacua Poster
Abstract
February 27 MIT Masaki Yamada
Tufts
Inflation in random Gaussian landscapes Poster
Abstract
March 6 Tufts Azadeh Moradinezhad Dizgah
Harvard
Probing primordial non-Gaussianity with line intensity mapping Poster
Abstract
March 14 MIT Lam Hui
Columbia
Two applications of Nambu-Goldstone bosons in cosmology Poster
Abstract
March 20 No seminar
March 27 No seminar
April 3 Tufts Lorenzo Sorbo
UMass Amherst
Phenomenology of vector and fermion production during axion inflation Poster
Abstract
April 10 MIT Feraz Azhar
Harvard
Inflationary trajectories: An effective field theory approach Poster
Abstract
April 13 MIT Sergei Dubovsky
NYU
Complementarity from Identity Poster
April 17 Tufts Ruth Daly
Penn State
The Acceleration of the Universe and Dark Energy Properties as Functions of Redshift Poster
Abstract
April 24 MIT Bharat Ratra
Kansas State
Cosmological Seed Magnetic Field from Inflation Poster
Abstract
May 1 Tufts Djuna Croon
Dartmouth
Particle Phenomenology with Gravitational Waves Poster
Abstract


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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