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 — Spring 2014

Date Location Speaker Title Links
February 4 MIT Elisabeth Krause
University of Pennsylvania
Combining Probes of Large-Scale Structure in the Precision Cosmology Era Poster
Abstract
February 11 Tufts Daniel Harlow
Institute for Advanced Study
Inflation after False Vacuum Decay: Prospects after Planck Poster
Abstract
February 18 no seminar

February 25 Tufts Mark Wyman
NYU
nu-LambdaCDM: How Neutrinos help reconcile Planck with the Local Universe Poster
Abstract
March 4 MIT Mustafa Amin
Cambridge
Ultra-relativistic Soliton Collisions Poster
Abstract
March 11 Tufts

March 18 MIT 54-100 Andrei Linde
Stanford
Inflation: News and Perspectives Poster
Abstract
March 25 No seminar

April 1 MIT Leonardo Senatore
Stanford University
The Effective Field Theory of Large Scale Structures Poster
Abstract
April 8 Tufts Grigor Aslanyan
University of Auckland
Primordial Power Spectrum pre- and post-BICEP Poster
Abstract
April 15 MIT

April 22 Tufts Daniel Grin
Chicago
Some new probes of axions, vanilla (QCD) and donut (string-inspired). Poster
Abstract
April 29 MIT Nishant Agarwal
CMU
Probing inflation with large scale structure Poster
Abstract
May 6 Tufts Keshav Dasgupta
McGill
How hard is it to get a de Sitter solution in String Theory? Poster
Abstract


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: Robinson Hall, Room 250 (refreshments are served at 2:00 in the Knipp library, Robinson Hall, 2nd floor)

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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