Joint Tufts / MIT Tuesday Cosmology Seminars

The seminar rotates between MIT and Tufts. The organizers are Alan Guth (guth@ctp.mit.edu) and Evan Mcdonough (evanmc@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 2020

Date Location Speaker Title Links
September 22 Tufts online Giovanni Villadoro
ICTP		 More Axions from Strings Poster
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September 29 MIT online no seminar
October 6 Tufts online Xavier Siemens
Oregon State		 The NANOGrav search for nanohertz gravitational waves Poster
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October 13 No seminar
October 20 MIT online Evan McDonough
Chicago, KICP		 Constraining Early Dark Energy with Large Scale Structure Poster
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October 27 Tufts online Slava Mukhanov
Ludwig Maximilians University Munich		 Quantum fluctuations and instantons. Poster
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November 3 MIT online Evangelos Sfakianakis
Autonomous University of Barcelona		 CMB Signatures of Standard Model Higgs Effects during Reheating Poster
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November 10 No seminar
November 17 Tufts online David Spergel
Princeton		 Determining the Universe's Initial Conditions Poster
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November 24 MIT online Elisa Ferreira
Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics		 Ultra-light dark matter: the light and fuzzy side of dark matter Poster
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December 1 Tufts online Yuri Levin
Columbia		 Spinning black holes as cosmic string factories Poster
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December 8 MIT online Joseph Silk
IAP, JHU, Oxford		 The Future of Cosmology Poster
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Where and when

Unless otherwise noted, the seminars at both institutions are on Tuesdays at 2:30 pm.

In Fall 2020, all seminars are being held online. Links will be sent to the cosmology seminar mailing list.

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When possible, we will return to in person seminars. The usual locations are:

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)