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

Seminars — Fall 2017

Date Location Speaker Title Links
September 26 MIT Razieh Emami Meibody
Hong Kong U. of Science and Technology 		Observational Constraints on the Primordial Curvature Power Spectrum Poster
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October 3 Tufts Matt Kleban
NYU 		Multiversal Axions Poster
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October 10 MIT Sean Carroll
Cal Tech 		Entropy, Cosmology, and Quantum Circuits Poster
October 17 Tufts Scott Watson
Syracuse 		Primordial Black Hole Dark Matter and the End of Inflation Poster
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October 24 MIT Daniel Harlow
MIT 		Black holes, Holography, and Quantum Information Poster
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October 31 Tufts Vitaly Vanchurin
U. Minnesota, Duluth 		General Relativity from Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics of Quantum Information Poster
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November 7 MIT Liam McAllister
Cornell 		Axion Inflation in Quantum Gravity Poster
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November 14 Tufts Evan McDonough
Brown 		Anti-Brane Induced Inflation Poster
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November 21 MIT Cora Dvorkin
Harvard 		Discovering New Physics Beyond the Standard Model with Cosmological Data Sets Poster
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November 28 Tufts Matt Reece
Harvard 		Cosmology of a Fine-Tuned SUSY Higgs Poster
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December 5 MIT Chanda Prescod-Weinstein
U. Washington, Seattle 		Making a Universe with (Rel)axions Poster
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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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