Joint Tufts / CfA / MIT
Tuesday Cosmology Seminars

Fall 2009

The seminar rotates between the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, MIT and Tufts. The organizers are Douglas Finkbeiner (dfinkbei@cfa.harvard.edu), Alison Farmer (afarmer@cfa.harvard.edu), and Jonathan R. Pritchard (jpritcha@cfa.harvard.edu) at the CfA, Alan Guth (guth@ctp.mit.edu) at MIT, and Alex Vilenkin (vilenkin@cosmos2.phy.tufts.edu) at Tufts.

Seminars

Date Speaker Title Options

September 15
At MIT, 2:30 pm
Refreshments at 2:00 pm Peter Adshead
Yale University Stochastic Gravity Waves: Beyond the Power Spectrum

September 22
At CfA (Pratt Conference Room, G04), 2:30 pm
Note change of location
Laura V. Sales
Groningen The Origin of Extended Disk Galaxies at z=2

September 29
At Tufts, 2:30 pm
Refreshments at 2:00 pm Matt DePies
University of Washington Detectability of Gravitational Waves from Light Cosmic Strings by the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna

October 6
At MIT, 2:30 pm
Refreshments at 2:00 pm No Seminar
Note that Daniel Eisenstein (U Arizona) is giving a Loeb Lecture at Harvard on
Baryon Acoustic Oscillations: A Robust and precise Route to the Cosmological Distance Scale.
Jefferson 250, 3:00 pm.

October 13
At CfA (Phillips Auditorium), 2:30 pm

October 20
At Tufts, 2:30 pm
Refreshments at 2:00 pm Larry Ford
Tufts University Quantum Stress Tensor Fluctuations and Inflation

October 27
At MIT, 2:30 pm
Refreshments at 2:00 pm Andrei Frolov
Simon Frasier University Primordial Non-Gaussianity from Preheating

November 3
At CfA (Phillips Auditorium), 2:30 pm
Toby Marriage
Princeton The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: An Overview and Progress Report

November 10
At Tufts, 2:30 pm
Refreshments at 2:00 pm Lorenzo Sorbo
University of Massachusetts A Natural Framework for Chaotic Inflation

November 17
At MIT, 2:30 pm
Refreshments at 2:00 pm Guido D'Amico
SISSA The Effective Theory of Quintessence and its Observational Signatures

November 24
At CfA (Phillips Auditorium), 2:30 pm
Jonathan Pritchard
CfA

December 1
At Tufts, 2:30 pm
Refreshments at 2:00 pm Ben Freivogel
UC Berkeley

December 8
At MIT, 2:30 pm
Refreshments at 2:00 pm Yasuhiro Sekino
Stanford and Okayama Institute, Japan To be announced

December 15
At CfA (Phillips Auditorium), 2:30 pm
Hiranya Peiris
Cambridge

Where and when

Unless otherwise noted, the seminars at all three institutions are on Tuesdays at 2:30 pm. The seminars at the CfA are also part of the Institute for Theory and Computation (ITC) Seminar series.

Unless otherwise indicated, the seminars are held at:

TUFTS: Robinson Hall, Room 250
(refreshments are served at 2:00 in the Knipp library, Robinson Hall, 2nd floor)

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)

CfA: Phillips Auditorium, Building D, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge.