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 — Fall 2019

Date Location Speaker Title Links
September 17 Tufts Tommi Tenkanen
Johns Hopkins		 Inflation and the theory of gravity Poster
Abstract
September 24 MIT Brandon Melcher
Syracuse		 Co-Decaying Dark Matter and its Cosmological Signatures Poster
Abstract
October 1 Tufts Vitaly Vanchurin
University of Minnesota, Duluth		 A quantum-classical duality and emergent space-time Poster
Abstract
October 8 MIT Volodymyr Takhistov
UCLA		 Connecting early Universe with Observations: from Primordial Black Holes to Sterile Neutrinos Poster
Abstract
October 15 No seminar
October 22 Tufts Eleni Kontou
Holy Cross		 A semiclassical singularity theorem Poster
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October 29 MIT Sylvester James Gates Jr.
Brown
November 5 Tufts Prateek Agrawal
Harvard
November 12 MIT David Kaiser
MIT
November 19 Tufts Kiyoshi Masui
MIT
November 26 MIT Mario Reig
Institut de Fisica Corpuscular, Univeristy of Valencia
December 3 Tufts
December 10 MIT Evangelos Sfakianakis
NIKHEF

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 316 (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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