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 2018

Date Location Speaker Title Links
September 25 MIT Xingang Chen
Harvard 		Inflation as a cosmological collider Poster
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October 2 Tufts Cumrun Vafa
Harvard 		New Stringy Perspective on Cosmology Poster
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October 9 No seminar
October 16 MIT Jorinde van de Vis
Nikhef, Netherlands 		Preheating after Higgs inflation: self-resonance and gauge boson production Poster
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October 23 Tufts No seminar
October 30 MIT Chen Sun
Brown 		Boson Star from Repulsive Light Scalars and Gravitational Waves Poster
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November 6 Tufts Jeremy Wachter
UPV/EHU Bilbao 		Gravitational self-interactions of cosmic string loops Poster
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November 13 MIT Adam Solomon
CMU 		Superfluids and the cosmological constant problem Poster
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November 20 Tufts Sugumi Kanno
University of Osaka 		Possible detection of primordial gravitational waves with Hanbury Brown - Twiss interferometry Poster
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November 27 MIT Leonardo Senatore
Stanford
December 4 Tufts Tanmay Vachsapati
Arizona State
December 11 MIT

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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