Joint Tufts / CfA / MIT
Tuesday Cosmology Seminars

Fall 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
September 15
At MIT, 2:30 pm
Refreshments at 2:00 pm		 Peter Adshead
Yale University 		Stochastic Gravity Waves: Beyond the Power Spectrum
September 22
At CfA (Pratt Conference Room, G04), 2:30 pm
Note change of location
 Laura V. Sales
Groningen 		The Origin of Extended Disk Galaxies at z=2
September 29
At Tufts, 2:30 pm
Refreshments at 2:00 pm		 Matt DePies
University of Washington 		Detectability of Gravitational Waves from Light Cosmic Strings by the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna
October 6
At MIT, 2:30 pm
Refreshments at 2:00 pm		 No Seminar
 Note that Daniel Eisenstein (U Arizona) is giving a Loeb Lecture at Harvard on
Baryon Acoustic Oscillations: A Robust and precise Route to the Cosmological Distance Scale.
Jefferson 250, 3:00 pm.
October 13
At CfA (Phillips Auditorium), 2:30 pm
  
  
October 20
At Tufts, 2:30 pm
Refreshments at 2:00 pm		 Larry Ford
Tufts University 		Quantum Stress Tensor Fluctuations and Inflation
October 27
At MIT, 2:30 pm
Refreshments at 2:00 pm		 Andrei Frolov
Simon Frasier University 		Primordial Non-Gaussianity from Preheating
November 3
At CfA (Phillips Auditorium), 2:30 pm
 Toby Marriage
Princeton 		The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: An Overview and Progress Report
November 10
At Tufts, 2:30 pm
Refreshments at 2:00 pm		 Lorenzo Sorbo
University of Massachusetts 		A Natural Framework for Chaotic Inflation
November 17
At MIT, 2:30 pm
Refreshments at 2:00 pm		 Guido D'Amico
SISSA 		The Effective Theory of Quintessence and its Observational Signatures
November 24
At CfA (Phillips Auditorium), 2:30 pm
 Jonathan Pritchard
CfA 		Cosmology from the Redshifted 21 cm Line
December 1
At Tufts, 2:30 pm
Refreshments at 2:00 pm		 Ben Freivogel
UC Berkeley 		Anthropic Explanation of the Dark Matter Abundance and its Observational Consequences
December 8
At MIT, 2:30 pm
Refreshments at 2:00 pm		 Yasuhiro Sekino
Stanford and Okayama Institute, Japan 		FRW/CFT Duality: Holographic Formulation of Eternal Inflation, and its Applications
December 15
At CfA (Phillips Auditorium), 2:30 pm
 Hiranya Peiris
Cambridge 		The Nature of the Primordial Fluctuations: Concordance or Discordance?

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.

Send suggestions or comments to guth@ctp.mit.edu.

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