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 2017

Date Location Speaker Title Links
February 7 Tufts Mark Vogelsberger
MIT
Simulations of CDM and Beyond Poster
Abstract
February 14 MIT No seminar
February 21 Tufts Tomohiro Fujita
Stanford
The new relationship between inflation and gravitational waves Poster
Abstract
February 28 MIT Marco Peloso
Minnesota
Dissipation during inflation Poster
Abstract
March 7 Tufts Andrei Gruzinov
NYU
Black Hole Spindown by Light Bosons Poster
Abstract
March 15 MIT Jean-Luc Lehners
Max-Planck-Institute for Gravitational Physics
Real time quantum cosmology Poster
Abstract
March 21 No seminar
March 28 No seminar
April 4 Tufts John Donoghue
UMass Amherst
A possible pathway beyond the gravitational effective field theory Poster
Abstract
April 11 MIT Evangelos Sfakianakis
University of Illinois
From axion inflation to leptons, baryons and cosmological magnetic fields Poster
Abstract
April 18 Tufts Mark Hertzberg
Tufts
Special Relativity from Soft Gravitons Poster
Abstract
April 25 MIT Kurt Hinterbichler
Case Western Reserve
Massive and partially massless gravity Poster
Abstract
May 2 Tufts Aron Wall
Institute for Advanced Study
An Information-Theoretic Lower Bound on the Energy Density 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 310 (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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