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 2016

Date Location Speaker Title Links
August 30 Tufts Tanmay Vachaspati
Arizona State
Special Seminar: Fundamental Implications of Intergalactic Magnetic Field Observations Poster
Abstract
September 13 Tufts David Rideout
UCSD
Special Seminar: Evaluating the Gravitational Path Sum in Causal Set Quantum Gravity Poster
Abstract
September 27 MIT No seminar
October 4 Tufts Burkhard Schwab
Harvard
Black Hole Absorption Rates from Conservation Laws Poster
Abstract
October 11 MIT No seminar
October 18 Tufts Ben Heidenreich
Perimeter
Inflation, Quantum Gravity, and the Weak Gravity Conjecture Poster
Abstract
October 25 MIT Lena Funcke
MPP and LMU Munich
Rethinking the Origin of Small Neutrino Masses Poster
Abstract
November 1 Tufts Cora Dvorkin
Harvard
New Frontiers in Cosmology Poster
November 8 MIT No seminar
November 15 Tufts Ken Van Tilburg
NYU and IAS
A small weak scale from a small cosmological constant Poster
Abstract
November 22 MIT Thomas Bachlechner
Columbia
Vacuum Decay and Inflation Poster
Abstract
November 29 Tufts Gia Dvali
NYU
Black hole hair: Quantum and Classical Poster
Abstract
December 6 MIT Ali Masoumi
Tufts
Quantum tunneling in multi-field theories 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: 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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