Alexander Vilenkin

Director, Institute of Cosmology, and
L. and J. Bernstein Professor of Evolutionary Science

Office: 358 Robinson Hall
Telephone: 617-627-3147
Email: vilenkin (at cosmos.phy.tufts.edu)

Research Interests

Cosmic inflation, dark energy, cosmic strings and monopoles, quantum cosmology, high-energy cosmic rays, the multiverse, and anthropic selection.

Here is my popular talk about cosmic inflation and the multiverse.

Publications

A complete list of my publications can be found on the SLAC SPIRES archive.

Books

With E. Paul S. Shellard I wrote a monograph, Cosmic Strings and Other Topological Defects (Cambridge University Press, 2000).
I am also author of the popular book, Many Worlds in One: The Search for Other Universes (Hill and Wang, 2007), which has been reviewed by American Scientist (MS Word), the College Publisher Network (MS Word), Nature (pdf), New Scientist (MS Word), and Physics Today (pdf), among others.