Tufts/CfA/MIT Cosmology Seminar, at MIT:

Tom Banks, Rutgers University

Title: Modular Cosmology

Abstract: I discuss the virtues and problems of an approach to
inflationary cosmology in which the inflaton fields are the moduli of
string theory.  This leads to interesting insights about the
cosmological constant, supersymmetry breaking, and the physical
mechanisms which might determine the choice of the vacuum state in
superstring theory.