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

    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)
    Whispers from the dark: primordial black holes and gravitational waves
    Poster Abstract

    December 3 - Tufts 
    Tanmay Vachaspati (Arizona State)
    Primordial magnetic fields from electroweak symmetry breaking.
    Poster Abstract

    December 10 - MIT 
    (No seminar)

     

    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). 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). In spring 2025, the seminars will be in room 316.

     

    MIT: Center for Theoretical Physics Cosman Seminar Room, Fourth Floor, Building 6C, Room 6C-442

    Other terms

    Click here for seminars in other terms.

  • Joint MIT/Tufts Cosmology Seminar

    Spring 2025

    January 28 - Tufts 
    (no seminar)

     

    February 4 - MIT 
    Bruce Allen (Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics / Albert Einstein Institute)
    Optimal reconstruction of the Hellings and Downs correlation
    Poster Abstract

    February 11 - Tufts online 
    Fabio van Dissel (Barcelona, IFAE)
    Understanding Semiclassical Backreaction in Quantum Mechanics
    Poster Abstract

    February 18 - No seminar


     

    February 25 - MIT 
    Mariam Campbell (University of Cape Town)
    Exact solutions to relativistic compact objects in extended theories of gravity
    Poster Abstract

    March 4 - Tufts 
    Evangelos Sfakianakis (UT Austin and Harvard)
    Detectable GWs from rolling scalars
    Poster Abstract

    March 11 - MIT 
    Elisabeth Krause (Arizona)
    More Accurate Together: Opportunities in Multi-Survey Cosmology
    Poster Abstract

    March 18 - No seminar


     

    March 25 - No seminar


     

    April 1 - Tufts 
    Louis Clavelli (Univ. of Alabama and Tufts)
    Treating the ills of the standard model by finite total mass
    Poster Abstract

    April 8 - MIT 
    Julien Lavalle (Laboratoire Univers et Particules de Montpellier (LUPM), France)
    Early dressing of primordial black holes with cold dark matter particles
    Poster Abstract

    April 15 - Tufts 
    Cristiano Germani (University of Barcelona)
    The unexpected shape of the primordial black hole mass function
    Poster Abstract

    April 22 - Tufts 
    Larry Ford (Tufts)
    Gravity Waves or Gravitons from Inflation?
    Poster Abstract

    April 29 - MIT 
    Dieter Lüst (Max-Planck-Institute for Physics and LMU-Munich)
    Black Holes as Probes for UV Physics
    Poster Abstract

    May 6 - No seminar


     

    May 13 - MIT 
    Vincent Vennin (CNRS / Ecole Normale Superieure (Paris))
    Harvesting primordial black holes from stochastic trees
    Poster Abstract

    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). 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 316 (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

    Other terms

    Click here for seminars in other terms.