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January 30
At Tufts, 2:30 pm
Refreshments at 2:00 pm |
Robert Brandenberger
Brown University
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Trans-Planckian Problem for Inflationary Cosmology
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February 6
At MIT, 2:30 pm
Refreshments at 2:00 pm |
Philip Mannheim
University of Connecticut
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Brane Cosmology
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February 13
At CfA, 12:30 pm
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No Seminar
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February 20
At Tufts, 2:30 pm
Refreshments at 2:00 pm |
Richard Woodard
University of Florida
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Back-Reaction Is For Real
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February 27
At MIT, 2:30 pm
Refreshments at 2:00 pm |
Ram Brustein
Ben Gurion University
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Dark Energy: Theoretical Expectations Confront Experimental Data
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March 6
At CfA, 12:30 pm
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Alex Heger
University of California at Santa Cruz
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Evolution and Nucleosynthesis of Very Massive Primordial Stars
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March 13
At Tufts, 2:30 pm
Refreshments at 2:00 pm New Room: Robinson Hall, Room 152 (on left at end of first floor hallway) |
Serge Winitzki
Case Western Reserve University
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Null Energy Condition Violations in Eternal Inflation
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March 20
At MIT, 2:30 pm
Refreshments at 2:00 pm |
Ali Nayeri
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Brane-Worlds in Static and Non-Static Bulk and Localization of Gravity
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March 27
At CfA, 12:30 pm
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Matias Zaldarriaga
New York University
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The Effects of Gravitational Lensing of the CMB Anisotropies
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April 3
At Tufts, 2:30 pm
Refreshments at 2:00 pm |
Tom Kibble
Imperial College, London
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Phase Transitions and Topological Defects in Lattice Gauge Theories
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April 10
At MIT, 2:30 pm
Refreshments at 2:00 pm |
Lam Hui
Columbia University
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Three Applications of Lensing
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April 17
At CfA, 12:30 pm
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Chris Metzler
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
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Estimating the Masses of Galaxy Clusters
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April 24
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Seminar cancelled due to Loeb Lectures at Harvard by Lisa Randall
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May 1
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Seminar cancelled due to Loeb Lectures at Harvard by Lisa Randall
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May 8
At CfA, 12:30 pm
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Daniel Eisenstein
University of Arizona
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The Sloan Digital Sky Survey: Status and Science
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