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September 25
At Tufts, 2:30 pm
Refreshments at 2:00 pm |
Tanmay Vachaspati
Case Western Reserve University
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Primordial Magnetic Fields and CP Violation in the Sky
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October 2
At MIT, 2:30 pm
Refreshments at 2:00 pm |
Alan Guth
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Inflation is Not Past-Eternal
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October 9
At CfA, 12:30 pm
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Dave Rusin
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
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Astrophysical and Cosmological Studies with Strong Gravitational Lensing
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October 16
At Tufts, 2:30 pm
Refreshments at 2:00 pm |
Jonathan Feng
MIT and University of California at Irvine
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Probing Extra Dimensions with Trans-Planckian Cosmic Rays
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October 23
At MIT, 2:30 pm
Refreshments at 2:00 pm |
Xavier Siemens
Tufts University
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Gravitational Radiation and the Fate of Small Scale Structure on Cosmic Strings
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October 30
At CfA, 12:30 pm
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Rachel Bean
Imperial College
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Recent Observational Constraints on Quintessence
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November 6
At Tufts, 2:30 pm
Refreshments at 2:00 pm |
Cedric Deffayet
New York University
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Aspects of Cosmology of Brane-Induced Gravity Models
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November 13
At MIT, 2:30 pm
Refreshments at 2:00 pm |
Frank Wilczek
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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About Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Rays
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November 20
At CfA, 12:30 pm
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Yanquin Wu
CITA
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Tidal Evolution of Close-In Extra-Solar Planets
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November 27
At Tufts, 2:30 pm
Refreshments at 2:00 pm |
Gary Gibbons
Cambridge University
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Can One Have de-Sitter Spacetime and Accelerating Universes in M-Theory?
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December 4
At MIT, 2:30 pm
Refreshments at 2:00 pm |
Mark Trodden
Syracuse University
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Some Negativity About Negative Tension
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December 11
At CfA, 12:30 pm
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Avi Loeb
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
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The First Sources of Light and the Reionization of the Universe
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December 11
At Tufts, 3:00 pm
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SPECIAL SEMINAR:
Anthony Aguirre
Institute for Advanced Study
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Two studies concerning the multiverse: Part 1 -- Cosmological Anthropic Arguments and Counter-Arguments. Part 2 -- Steady-state Eternal Inflation
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