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)
| Date | Location | Speaker | Title | Links |
| February 5 | Tufts |
Abhay Ashtekar Pennsylvania State |
An extension of the inflationary scenario to the Planck regime | Poster Abstract |
| February 12 | MIT |
Johanna Karouby MIT |
Effects of a Thermal Bath of Photons on Embedded String Stability | Poster Abstract |
| February 19 | Tufts |
Matt Kleban NYU |
Unwinding Inflation | Poster Abstract |
| February 26 | MIT |
Larry Ford Tufts |
Probability Distributions for Quantum Stress Tensor Fluctuations | Poster Abstract |
| March 5 | Tufts |
David Chernoff Cornell |
Detecting Cosmic Superstrings | Poster Abstract |
| March 12 | MIT |
Tanmay Vachaspati Arizona State |
Quantum Excitations in Time-Dependent Backgrounds | Poster Abstract |
| March 19 | No seminar. |
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| March 26 | No seminar. |
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| April 2 | Tufts |
Robert Brandenberger McGill |
Searching for Signals of Cosmic String Wakes in New Observational Windows | Poster Abstract |
| April 9 | MIT |
Andrew Waldron Davis |
Massive and Partially Massless Gravity? | Poster Abstract |
| April 16 | Tufts |
Sugumi Kanno Tufts |
Anisotropy and Inflation | Poster Abstract |
| April 23 | MIT |
Louis Clavelli Tufts and U Alabama |
A Cosmology with Finite Matter | Poster Abstract |
| April 30 | Tufts |
Ali Masoumi Columbia |
Instability in theories with many fields | Poster Abstract |
| May 7 | MIT |
Ben Shlaer Tufts |
Unimodular Quantum Gravity | Poster Abstract |
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)