Seminar Archives

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

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