Joint Tufts / CfA / MIT
Tuesday Cosmology Seminars

Spring 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

February 10
At Tufts, 2:30 pm
Refreshments at 2:00 pm Matt Kleban
NYU A Conformal Field Theory for Eternal Inflation

February 17
At CfA (Phillips Auditorium), 2:30 pm
David Weinberg
Ohio State University Galaxies and Dark Matter

February 24
At MIT, 2:30 pm
Refreshments at 2:00 pm
No Seminar

March 3
At Tufts, 2:30 pm
Refreshments at 2:00 pm Craig Hogan
Fermilab Holographic Noise

March 10
At CfA (Phillips Auditorium), 2:30 pm
Carlos Frenk
University of Durham, UK Cosmology on Small Scales: The Structure of (Mostly) Dark Matter Halos

March 17
At MIT, 2:30 pm
Refreshments at 2:00 pm Raphael Bousso
UC Berkeley Think Global Act Causal: Complementarity in the Multiverse

March 24
At Tufts, 2:30 pm
Refreshments at 2:00 pm Saswat Sarangi
Columbia University Incorporating Nongaussianities in the Fokker-Planck Description of Inflation

March 31
At CfA (Phillips Auditorium), 2:30 pm

April 7
At MIT, 2:30 pm
Refreshments at 2:00 pm Jiajun Xu
Cornell Multifield Inflation with a Random Potential

April 14
At Tufts, 2:30 pm
Refreshments at 2:00 pm Eiichiro Komatsu
University of Texas at Austin Testing Physics of the Early Universe Observationally: Are Primordial Fluctuations Gaussian, or Non-Gaussian?

April 21
At CfA (Phillips Auditorium), 2:30 pm
Hume Feldman
University of Kansas Flows on 100 Mpc/h Scales and the Amplitude of Density Fluctuations in the Universe

April 28
At MIT, 2:30 pm
Refreshments at 2:00 pm Jose J. Blanco-Pillado
Tufts Quantum Tunneling in Flux Compactifications

May 5
At Tufts, 2:30 pm
Refreshments at 2:00 pm Igor Klebanov
Princeton Warped Conifolds and D-brane Inflation

May 12
At CfA (Pratt Conference Room, G04), 2:30 pm
Note change of location
Kathryn Johnston
Columbia University The Local Group Manifesto

May 19
At MIT, 2:30 pm
Refreshments at 2:00 pm Xingang Chen
MIT The PAMELA/ATIC/Fermi/HESS Results and Decaying Hidden Dark Matter in Warped Compactification

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.