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)
| Date | Location | Speaker | Title | Links |
| February 2 | Tufts online | Azadeh Maleknejad CERN |
SU(2)R and its Axion: A common Origin for Inflation, Cold Sterile Neutrinos, and Baryogenesis | Poster Abstract |
| February 9 | MIT online | Leonardo Senatore Stanford |
A de-Sitter no-hair theorem for spacetimes with isometry group forming two-dimensional orbits. | Poster Abstract |
| February 16 | No seminar | |||
| February 23 | Tufts online | Alexander Westphal DESY |
Sometimes 2 are more than 1 + 1 -- double monodromy inflation | Poster Abstract |
| March 2 | MIT online | Jan Kwapisz U Warsaw |
Is asymptotically safe inflation eternal? | Poster Abstract |
| March 9 | Tufts online | Asier Lopez Eiguren Tufts |
Scaling Density of Axion Strings | Poster Abstract |
| March 16 | MIT online | Cora Dvorkin Harvard |
Discovering New Physics with Cosmological Data Sets | Poster Abstract |
| March 23 | No seminar | |||
| March 30 | Tufts online | Mehrdad Mirbabayi ICTP |
Uptunneling to de Sitter | Poster Abstract |
| April 6 | MIT online | Seminar postponed until fall | ||
| April 13 | Tufts online | Eugene M. Chudnovsky CUNY Graduate School and Lehman College |
COVID-19: Airborne Transmission and Mitigation from a Physicist Perspective | Poster Abstract |
| April 20 | MIT online | John Stout Harvard |
Reining in Rampant Instanton Expansions | Poster Abstract |
| April 27 | Tufts online | Fernando Quevedo Cambridge and ICTP |
On Vacuum Transitions and the String Landscape | Poster Abstract |
| May 4 | MIT online | Jerome Martin IAP |
Can we show that CMB anisotropies are of Quantum-mechanical origin? | Poster Abstract |
MIT: Center for Theoretical Physics Cosman Seminar Room, Fourth Floor, Building 6C, Room 6C-442