January 18, 2000:
Romeel Davé, Princeton University
Simulating Galaxy Formation: The State of the Art
At CfA, 12:30 p.m.
For abstract, click here.
POSTPONED UNTIL MARCH 7, 2000, DUE TO WEATHER:
January 25, 2000:
Ken D. Olum, Tufts University
Direct Massive Radiation from Cosmic Strings?
At Tufts, 2:30 p.m., refreshments at 2:00 p.m.
For abstract, click here.
February 1, 2000:
Philip D. Mannheim, University of Connecticut and MIT
Cosmic Acceleration as the Solution to the Cosmological
Constant Problem
At MIT, 2:30 p.m., refreshments at 2:00 p.m.
For abstract, click here.
February 8, 2000:
Rupert Croft, CfA
The Intergalactic Medium: From Gas and Dust to Cosmology
At CfA, 12:30 p.m.
For abstract, click here.
February 15, 2000:
Paul Frampton, University of North Carolina
Highest Energy Cosmic Rays
At Tufts, 2:30 p.m., refreshments at 2:00 p.m.
For abstract, click here.
February 22, 2000:
Alan Guth, MIT
Quantum Fluctuations of the Energy in a Finite Volume
At MIT, 2:30 p.m., refreshments at 2:00 p.m.
For abstract, click here.
For a postscript file of the transparencies, click
here.
Tuesday, February 29, 2000:
Nick Gnedin, CASA, Colorado
Cosmological Reionization and its Consequences
At CfA, 12:30 p.m.
March 7, 2000:
Ken D. Olum, Tufts University
Direct Massive Radiation from Cosmic Strings?
At Tufts, 2:30 p.m., refreshments at 2:00 p.m.
For abstract, click here.
March 14, 2000:
Andrew Chamblin, MIT
Search for a Realistic M-theory Cosmology
At MIT, 2:30 p.m., refreshments at 2:00 p.m.
For abstract, click here.
March 21, 2000:
Ravi Sheth, Fermilab
A Nonlinear View of Cosmological Density and Velocity Fields
At CfA, 12:30 p.m.
For abstract, click here.
March 28, 2000:
Alexander Vilenkin, Tufts
Gamma-Ray Bursts from Superconducting Cosmic Strings
At Tufts, 2:30 p.m., refreshments at 2:00 p.m.
For abstract, click here.
Tuesday, April 4, 2000:
Ali Nayeri, MIT
Path Integral Duality Hypothesis in an Inflationary Phase
At MIT, 2:30 p.m., refreshments at 2:00 p.m.
For abstract, click here.
Tuesday, April 11, 2000:
Ludo van Waerbeke, Canadian Institute for Theoretical
Astrophysics
Cosmic Shear: From a Dream to Reality?
At CfA, 12:30 p.m.
For abstract, click here.
Tuesday, April 18, 2000:
Joanne Cohn, CfA
Flattening the Inflaton's Potential with Discrete Non-abelian
Gauge Symmetries
At Tufts, 2:30 p.m., refreshments at 2:00 p.m.
For abstract, click here.
Tuesday, April 25, 2000:
Marcelo Gleiser, Dartmouth College
Weak First Order Phase Transitions and Electroweak
Baryogenesis
At MIT, 2:30 p.m., refreshments at 2:00 p.m.
For abstract, click here.
May 10, 2000:
Lawrence M. Krauss, Case Western Reserve University
Life, the Universe and Nothing: The Future of Life in an Ever
Expanding Universe
At Tufts, 2:30 p.m., refreshments at 2:00 p.m.