BOSTON AREA COSMOLOGY MEETING
April 4, 1997
Kolker Room
Building 26, Room 414
MIT

Transparencies Are Now Available

This day-long meeting is intended to bring together cosmologists from all over the Boston area and working in widely differing subfields. It is hoped that the meeting will provide an insight into the many aspects of modern cosmology and the connections between them. Topics will range from the very early universe to gravitational lensing.

The plan for the day is:

10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. The Very Early Universe


Speaker Title
Joanne Cohn (Tufts) Primordial Gravity Waves From Open Inflation
David Kaiser (Harvard) Post-Inflation Reheating: Studying Preheating in an Expanding Universe
Serge Winitzki (Tufts) The Probability Distribution of Omega in Eternal Iflation
Xavier Martin (Tufts) Gravitational Wave Background from Hybrid Topological Defects
Xavier Siemens (Tufts) Monopoles Connected by Strings
Marcelo Gleiser (Dartmouth) Matching Numerical Simulations to Continuum Field Theories: Counting Kinks and Restoring Symmetries
Mark Trodden (MIT) N=1 Supersymmetric Cosmic Strings

12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. Lunch - Pizza

1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. CMB and Large Scale Structure


Speaker Title
Arthur Kosowsky (CfA) CMB: The Next Ten Years
Raul Abramo (Brown) Back Reaction of Gravitational Perturbations
Uros Seljak (CfA) CMB Anisotropies and Large Scale Structure from Topological Defects
Matias Zaldarriaga (MIT) CMB Polarization
Robert Brandenberger (Brown) When do Nonlinear Structures Form in the Cosmic String Model?
Avi Loeb (CfA) Signatures of Galaxy Formation
Zoltan Haiman (CfA) Signatures of Stellar Reionization

3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. Discussion

4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. Observation and Experiment


Speaker Title
John Huchra (CfA) Closing in on H_0
Paul Schechter (MIT) Gravitational Lensing and Hubble's Constant
Leslie Rosenberg (MIT) Search for Halo Axions

6:00 p.m. If anyone's interested we'll head out for dinner to a local restaurant.

It is expected that each speaker will hold the floor for 10-15 minutes, enough to give a brief overview of their current research. There will also be time set aside for discussion and lunch will be provided.

We are scanning the transparencies used by the speakers to make them available on the web. Most of the talks have been scanned, but a few more might be coming.

The meeting is being organized by Mark Trodden (trodden@theory1.phys.cwru.edu) with help from Arthur Kosowsky (kosowsky@physics.rutgers.edu) at the CfA, Alex Vilenkin at Tufts, and help and financial support from Alan Guth.

We hope very much to see you at the meeting.

trodden@ctpa04.mit.edu