Seminars
Joint MIT/Tufts Cosmology Seminar
Fall 2024
September 17 - MIT
Stephen Chen (Institute for Advanced Study)
Cosmological Concordance (Discordance?) in the DESI Era
Poster Abstract
September 24 - Tufts
Oriol Pujolas (Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona)
Primordial black holes from domain wall networks
Poster Abstract
October 1 - MIT
Sonia Paban (Harvard)
Primordial Stochastic Gravitational-Wave Background from a Sharp Small Scale Feature in Multi-field Inflation.
Poster Abstract
October 8 - Tufts online
Azadeh Maleknejad (Kings College London)
Weyl Fermion Creation by Cosmological Gravitational Wave Background at 1-loop
Poster Abstract
October 15 - No seminar
October 22 - MIT
Mustafa Amin (Rice)
How light can dark matter particles be?
Poster Abstract
October 29 - Tufts
Cyril Creque-Sarbinowski (Flatiron Institute)
Cosmic Magnetic Shear of Blazars
Poster Abstract
November 5 - No seminar
November 12 - MIT
Jose Espinosa (Instituto de Fisica Teorica, Madrid)
The Unreasonable Effectiveness of the Tunneling Potential
Poster Abstract
November 19 - Tufts
Leah Jenks (Chicago)
Gravitational Wave Probes of Parity Violation
Poster Abstract
November 26 - MIT
Valerio de Luca (Penn)
December 3 - Tufts
Tanmay Vachaspati (Arizona State)
December 10 - MIT
Renee Hlozek (Toronto)
General information
The seminar rotates between MIT and Tufts. MIT seminars are organized by Thomas Steingasser (tstngssr at mit edu), Misha Ivanov (ivanov99 at mit edu), David Kaiser (dikaiser at mit edu), and Alan Guth (guth at ctp mit edu). Tufts seminars are organized by Mark Hertzberg (Mark.Hertzberg at tufts edu) and Alex Vilenkin (vilenkin at cosmos phy tufts edu). These pages are maintained by Ken Olum (kdo@cosmos.phy.tufts.edu)
Unless otherwise noted, the seminars at both institutions are on Tuesdays at 2:30 pm.
Links for online seminars will be sent to sent to the cosmology seminar mailing list. Click here to subscribe to the cosmology seminar mailing list.
Usual locations for in-person seminars:
Tufts: 574 Boston Ave, Room 402 (refreshments will be served outside the building at the Harvard St. end if it's not too cold, otherwise in the third-floor hallway)
MIT: Center for Theoretical Physics Cosman Seminar Room, Fourth Floor, Building 6C, Room 6C-442