Joint Tufts / CfA / MIT
Tuesday Cosmology Seminars

Spring 2005

Seminars

Date	Speaker	Title	Options
February 1 At CfA (Pratt Conference room), 12:30 pm, NOTE SPECIAL TIME AND PLACE	Zoltan Haiman Columbia University	Constraining Cosmological Parameters with Galaxy Cluster Surveys
February 8 At Tufts, 2:30 pm Refreshments at 2:00 pm	Horace Stoica McGill University	Brane inflation and Defect Production
February 15 At MIT, 2:30 pm Refreshments at 2:00 pm	Richard Easther Yale University	Can Cosmology Test String Theory?
February 22 At CfA (Phillips Auditorium), 2:30 pm	Jordi Miralda-Escude Ohio State University	A new model for quasars and the M-sigma relation
March 1 At Tufts, 2:30 pm Refreshments at 2:00 pm	Rudy Schild Harvard-Smithsonian, CfA	The Q0957 Cosmic string Candidate and Other Related Brightness Anomalies
March 8 At MIT, 2:30 pm Refreshments at 2:00 pm	Ruth A. Daly Penn State University	Direct Determinations of the Expansion and Acceleration History of the Universe
March 15 At CfA (Phillips Auditorium), 2:30 pm	Gil Holder McGill University	Mining the holes in the sky: prospects for SZ surveys
March 29 At Tufts, 2:30 pm Refreshments at 2:00 pm	Ken D. Olum Tufts University	Conflict between anthropic reasoning and observation
April 5 At MIT, 2:30 pm Refreshments at 2:00 pm	Robert R. Caldwell Dartmouth College	Some Dark Energy Scalar Fields
April 12 At CfA (Phillips Auditorium), 2:30 pm		TALK CANCELED
April 19 At Tufts, 2:30 pm Refreshments at 2:00 pm	Cumrun Vafa Harvard University	Hartle-Hawking Wave function and String Theory
April 26 At MIT, 2:30 pm Refreshments at 2:00 pm	Seth Hoedl University of Washington	The Eot-Wash Axion Search
May 3 At CfA (Pratt Conference room), 12:30 pm, NOTE SPECIAL TIME AND PLACE	Justin Khoury MIT	Ekpyrotic/Cyclic Cosmology
May 10 At Tufts, 2:30 pm Refreshments at 2:00 pm		TALK CANCELED
May 17 At MIT, 2:30 pm Refreshments at 2:00 pm	Rachel Bean Princeton University	Dark Insights from Light - Addressing Different Perspectives on Dark Energy