Tufts/CfA/MIT Cosmology Seminar, at Tufts:

                     Tuesday January 27, 1998
                             2:30 pm
                          Robinson 250
     Refreshments at 2:00 pm in Robinson 251 (Knipp Library)

                    "Models of Open Inflation"
                          Jaume Garriga
                Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona

Abstract: 

     We review two field models of open inflation.  We show that
a large class of such models (originally proposed by Linde and
Mezhlumian), does not lead to infinite open universes, but to an
ensemble of vast inflating regions of finite size (quasi-open
universes). Observational consequences are discussed.