Department of Physics and Astronomy
Tufts Institute of Cosmology
Tufts Institute of Cosmology

Seminar Archives

Below are the Joint Cosmology Seminars from other semesters starting Spring 2024.

Click here for Fall 2023 and earlier

 

  • February 6, 2024 - MIT 
    Maria Rodriguez (Utah State and Harvard)
    Tidal Deformations of Black Holes
    Poster Abstract

    February 13, 2024 - Tufts online 
    Oksana Iarygina (Nordita)
    Non-Gaussianity in rapid-turn multi-field inflation
    Poster Abstract

    February 27, 2024 - MIT 
    Florian Kuehnel (LMU, Munich)
    Primordial Black Holes as Dark Matter
    Poster Abstract

    March 5, 2024 - Tufts 
    Wenzer Qin (MIT)
    Probing exotic energy injection with the CMB and early star formation
    Poster Abstract

    March 12, 2024 - MIT 
    (No seminar)

    March 22, 2024 - Tufts 
    Chris Fewster (York)
    Measurement in Quantum Field Theory: measurement schemes, state updates, impossible measurements, and all that
    Poster Abstract

    April 2, 2024 - Tufts 
    Fien Apers (Oxford)
    String Theory and the First Half of the Universe
    Poster Abstract

    April 9, 2024 - MIT 
    Oliver Philcox (Cambridge)
    Reflecting the Universe in a Mirror
    Poster Abstract

    April 16, 2024 - Tufts 
    Jesus Huertas Castellanos (IFT Madrid / Harvard)
    Bubbles of Nothing: The Tunneling Potential Approach
    Poster Abstract

    April 23, 2024 - MIT 
    Ken Olum (Tufts)
    Gravitational wave results from NANOGrav
    Poster Abstract

    April 30, 2024 - Tufts online 
    Itamar Allali (Brown)
    Dark Radiation with Baryon Acoustic Oscillations from DESI 2024 and the H0 tension
    Poster Abstract

  • Joint MIT/Tufts Cosmology Seminar

    Spring 2025

    January 28 - Tufts 


     

    February 4 - MIT 


     

    February 11 - Tufts 


     

    February 18 - No seminar


     

    February 25 - MIT 


     

    March 4 - Tufts 


     

    March 11 - MIT 


     

    March 18 - No seminar


     

    March 25 - No seminar


     

    April 1 - Tufts 


     

    April 8 - MIT 


     

    April 15 - Tufts 


     

    April 22 - Tufts 


     

    April 29 - MIT 


     

    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

    Click here for seminars in other terms.