The seminar rotates between MIT and Tufts. The organizers are Alan Guth (guth@ctp.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)
| Date | Location | Speaker | Title | Links |
| February 5 | Tufts | Masaki Yamada Tufts |
Thermalization process and dark matter production in the reheating era | Poster Abstract |
| February 12 | MIT | Stephon Alexander Brown |
Where is the cosmological constant hiding? | Poster Abstract |
| February 19 Special time: 2:00 p.m. |
Harvard Joint with Joint Harvard/MIT Particle Theory Seminar |
Raphael Flauger UCSD |
B-modes from the Early Universe and the Milky Way | Poster Abstract |
| February 26 | MIT | Juan Maldacena IAS |
The simplicity of two dimensional nearly AdS$_2$ or dS$_2$ gravity and its connection to four dimensional physics. | Poster Abstract |
| March 5 | Tufts | Yuri Levin Flatiron Institute |
Fun with black holes | Poster Abstract |
| March 12 | MIT | Frederik Denef Columbia |
De-conjecturing de Sitter | Poster Abstract |
| March 19 | No seminar | |||
| March 26 | No seminar | |||
| April 2 | Tufts | Oliver Janssen NYU |
The no-boundary proposal: alive and kicking | Poster Abstract |
| April 9 | MIT | Matias Zaldarriaga Princeton |
Challenges for physical cosmology after Planck | Poster Abstract |
| April 16 | Tufts | Francis Halzen Wisconsin |
IceCube: Opening a New Window on the Universe from the South Pole. | Poster Abstract |
| April 23 | MIT | Marco Scalisi KU Leuven |
de Sitter Vacua, Inflation and the Swampland | Poster Abstract |
| April 30 | Tufts | Matthew Johnson Perimeter |
A new semiclassical picture of vacuum decay | 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)