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
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September 24 MIT Brandon Melcher
Syracuse
Co-Decaying Dark Matter and its Cosmological Signatures Poster
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October 1 Tufts Vitaly Vanchurin
University of Minnesota, Duluth
A quantum-classical duality and emergent space-time Poster
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October 8 MIT Volodymyr Takhistov
UCLA
Connecting early Universe with Observations: from Primordial Black Holes to Sterile Neutrinos Poster
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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
SUSY Rilles: A Speculation on Superstring Signatures in the Cosmic Microwave Background Poster
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November 5 Tufts Prateek Agrawal
Harvard
The Hubble Hullabaloo Poster
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November 12 MIT David Kaiser
MIT
A Bumpy Start to a Smooth Ride: Onset of Inflation amid Backreaction from Inhomogeneities Poster
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November 19 Tufts Kiyoshi Masui
MIT
Primordial gravitational waves from tidal imprints in large-scale structure Poster
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November 26 MIT Mario Reig
Institut de Fisica Corpuscular, Univeristy of Valencia
Hidden sectors and the axion domain wall problem Poster
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December 3 Tufts No seminar
December 10 MIT Evangelos Sfakianakis
NIKHEF
Attractors, Bifurcations and Curvature in Multi-Field inflation 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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