Joint Tufts / CfA / MIT
Tuesday Cosmology Seminars

Spring 2008

The seminar rotates between the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, MIT and Tufts. The organizers are TJ Cox (tcox@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
February 5
At CfA (Phillips Auditorium), 2:30 pm
 Angela Olinto
University of Chicago 		The Origin of the Highest Energy Particles
February 12
At MIT, 2:30 pm
Refreshments at 2:00 pm		 Henry Tye
Cornell University 		The Cosmological Constant Problem in the Stringy Landscape
February 19
At Tufts, 2:30 pm
Refreshments at 2:00 pm		 Richard Woodard
University of Florida 		Interacting Quantum Fields in de Sitter Space
February 26
At CfA (Phillips Auditorium), 2:30 pm
 Roger Blandford
Stanford/KIPAC 		Measurement and Application of Faint "Galaxy" Correlation Function
March 4
At MIT, 2:30 pm
Refreshments at 2:00 pm		  
  
March 11
At Tufts, 2:30 pm
Refreshments at 2:00 pm		 Neil Turok
DAMTP, Cambridge University 		Quantum Resolution of Cosmological Singularities Using Holography
March 18
At CfA (Phillips Auditorium), 2:30 pm
 Louie Strigari
UC Irvine 		Dark matter, Small-Scale Structure, and Dwarf Galaxies
March 25
At Tufts, 2:30 pm
Refreshments at 2:00 pm		 Anthony Aguirre
UC at Santa Cruz 		Can We Observe Other Pocket Universes?
April 1
At MIT, 2:30 pm
Refreshments at 2:00 pm		 Xingang Chen
MIT 		Characterizing Primordial Bispectra in Single Field Inflation
April 8
At MIT, 2:30 pm
Pappalardo Room, 4-349
Refreshments at 2:00 pm in same room		 Joseph Polchinski
UC Santa Barbara 		A Matrix Model for Black Hole Thermalization
April 15
At MIT, 2:30 pm
Refreshments at 2:00 pm		 Jose Blanco-Pillado
Tufts 		Cosmic Superstring Dynamics
April 22
At Tufts, 2:30 pm
Refreshments at 2:00 pm		 Tanmay Vachaspati
Case-Western Reserve 		Magnetic Fields, Baryogenesis, and Sparks
April 29
At CfA (Phillips Auditorium), 2:30 pm
  
  
May 6
At MIT, 2:30 pm
Refreshments at 2:00 pm		 Andre Fuzfa
GAMASCO, University of Namur (FUNDP), Belgium 		The AWE Hypothesis: A Clue for a Unified Description of Dark Matter and Dark Energy?
May 13
At Tufts, 2:30 pm
Refreshments at 2:00 pm		  
  

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 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.

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