Caltech Theoretical Cosmology Group Meetings

We meet on Monday mornings to share ideas about the field-theory/gravity side of cosmology: inflation, early universe, dark energy, gravity theory, string cosmology, that kind of thing. It's informal, and there are donuts.

Mondays, 10:30 a.m., Lauritsen 469

Previous quarters


Spring Quarter, 2008

7 April
 Mark Wise
 Lorentz-Violating Vector Fields
0801.2950
21 April
 Sean Carroll
 The Quantum Ergodic Theorem
Brody, Hook, and Hughston, quant-ph/0702009


Previous Quarters
Autumn Quarter, 2007

22 October
 First Meeting
 Introduction and Organization
29 October
 Sean Carroll
 Is Inflation Likely?
Refs: Hollands and Wald 1, 2,
Kofman, Linde, Mukhanov, Gibbons and Turok.
5 November
 Robert Caldwell
 Cosmological 4-Forms
12 November
 Matt Johnson
 Colliding Bubbles
0704.3473
19 November
 Steve Hsu, Oregon
 Black Hole Entropy
0704.1154, 0706.3239
26 November
 Marc Kamionkowski
 Degravitation
hep-th/0703027

Winter Quarter, 2008

28 January
 Tomislav Prokopec, Utrecht
11 February
 Don Page, Alberta
 Boundary Conditions for the Universe
hep-th/0610199v2, 0707.2081
25 February
 Janna Levin, Barnard
 Dark Energy and Extra Dimensions
0707.1062
3 March
 John Preskill
 Black Holes as Mirrors
0708.4025
17 March
 Matt Johnson
 The Landscape and Inflation
Burgess, McAllister and Silverstein


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