Joint Tufts / MIT Tuesday Cosmology Seminars

The seminar rotates between MIT and Tufts. The organizers are Alan Guth (guth@ctp.mit.edu) and Evan Mcdonough (evanmc@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 2022

Date Location Speaker Title Links
February 1 Tufts online Michael Zantedeschi
Max Planck Institute
Vortexes in Black Holes Poster
Abstract
February 8 MIT online Ani Prabhu
Stanford
Axion Production in Pulsar Magnetosphere Gaps Poster
Abstract
February 15 Tufts online Robert Brandenberger
McGill University
Emergent Cosmology from Matrix Theory Poster
Abstract
March 1 MIT online Sebastian Cespedes
Madrid IFT
Non-perturbative tails from multifield inflation Poster
Abstract
March 8 Tufts Ken Olum
Tufts
Energy conditions allow eternal inflation Poster
Abstract
March 15 MIT online Morgane Konig
Dartmouth
A theory of Hybrid monodromy inflation with two fields Poster
Abstract
March 29 Tufts online Craig Copi
CWRU
Detectable gravitational wave tails from stars and compact objects Poster
Abstract
April 5 MIT online Meng-Xiang Lin
Chicago
Paths towards the Hubble tension solutions Poster
Abstract
April 12 Tufts Jordan Cotler
Harvard
Unitarity in Expanding Cosmologies Poster
Abstract
April 19 MIT online Netta Engelhardt
MIT
Recent (Holographic) Developments on the Black Hole Information Problem, part 1 Poster
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April 26 Tufts online Netta Engelhardt
MIT
Recent (Holographic) Developments on the Black Hole Information Problem, part 2 Poster
Abstract
May 3 MIT online Sarah Geller
MIT
Primordial Black Holes from Multifield Inflation with Non-minimal Couplings
Note unusual time: 1:15pm
Poster
Abstract


Where and when

Unless otherwise noted, the seminars at both institutions are on Tuesdays at 2:30 pm.

Some seminars will be in person and some will be online.
Links for online seminars will be sent to sent to the cosmology seminar mailing list.
To subscribe to the cosmology seminar mailing list, click here.

In-person seminars will normally be at:

TUFTS: 574 Boston Ave, Room 310 (in fall 2021, refreshments will be served outside the building at the Harvard St. end)

MIT: Center for Theoretical Physics Cosman Seminar Room, Fourth Floor, Building 6C, Room 6C-442

For seminars in other terms, click here.