School of Physics & Astronomy

Seminar Archive

 

Summer 2024

Fri 31 May Swagat Mishra (University of Nottingham) Towards (p)reheating after Inflaton fragmentation, Oscillon formation and decay
Fri 14 Jun Poulami Dutta Roy (Chennai Mathematical Institute, India) Quasi-normal modes of Black Holes

 

Spring 2024

Fri 12 Jan Thomas Steingasser (MIT, USA) Understanding the role of complex time in vacuum decay
Fri 26 Jan Arnab Saha (IISc, Bangalore, India) Field theory expansions of string theory amplitudes
Fri 2 Feb David Jackson (Independent) Generalised proper time as a unifying basis for particle physics and cosmology
Fri 9 Feb Nicolas Lecoeur (IJCLab, Orsay, France) Exact black hole solutions in higher-order scalar-tensor theories
Fri 16 Feb Haridev S.R (BITS-Pilani, Hyderabad, India) On the observer dependence of spontaneous symmetry breaking
Fri 23 Feb Amelia Drew (DAMTP, University of Cambridge) Radiation from cosmic strings with adaptive mesh refinement
Fri 1 Mar Sumanta Chakrabati (IACS, Kolkata, India) The conundrum of tidal Love number
Fri 8 Mar Thomas Colas (DAMTP, University of Cambridge) Open EFT in the early universe: dissipation and decoherence of cosmological inhomogenieties
Fri 15 Mar Karthik Rajeev (Higgs Centre, University of Edinburgh) Master formulae for N-photon tree-level amplitudes in plane wave backgrounds and beyond
Mon 18 Mar Priyanka Gawande (IUCAA, Pune, India) Gravitational lensing probes of dark matter
Fri 12 Apr Eiichiro Komatsu (Max Planck Institute, Garching, Germany) Parity violation in cosmology
Fri 19 Apr Paul McFadden (Newcastle University) IR divergences and de Sitter holography
Thu 25 Apr Tiago Gonçalves (Lisbon University, Portugal) (Mo)defying Gravity
Fri 3 May Andrew Gow (ICG, Portsmouth) Primordial black holes and non-Gaussianity

Thu  9 May

 Marco Scalisi (Max Planck, Munich, Germany) Species cosmology
Fri 10 May Anna Negro (Leiden University, Netherlands) Curing UV divergences in Primordial Observables -- Can N_eff bounds constrain vacuum GWs?
Fri 17 May Jiajie Mei (Durham University) Bootstrapping cosmological correlators
Fri 24 May Svashis Maity (IITM, Chennai, India) Probing the history of reheating through gravitational waves

 

Autumn 2023

Fri 8 Sep Maria Mylova (Ehwa University, Seoul) On the correlations of parity-violating gravity in alpha vacuum
Fri 29 Sep David J. E. Marsh (Kings College London) The string axiverse in 2023
Fri 6 Oct Nottingham Centre of Gravity meeting  
Fri 13 Oct Sravan Kumar (ICG, Portsmouth) Non-localities in quantum gravity and their implications for early universe cosmology and black hole physics
Fri 20 Oct Gordon Lee (DAMTP, Cambridge) The cosmological bootstrap and the analytic wavefunction
Fri 27 Oct Rafid Mahbub (Gustavus Adolphus College, Minnesota) Oscillon formation in asymmetric inflation potentials
Wed 1 Nov Jorinde van de Vis (Utrecht University) Gravitational waves from cosmological phase transitions: sound speed and wall speed
Fri 3 Nov Andrew Long (Rice University) Making massive dark particles from gravity during inflation
Fri 10 Nov Ramit Dey (Western Ontario) Advancing stochastic gravitational wave background detection with spectrogram correlated stacking
Fri 17 Nov Laura Iacconi (Queen Mary London)Laura Iacconi (Queen Mary London) Back-reaction in the early universe
Fri 24 Nov Daniel Panizo (Uppsala University) Our universe on a (dark) bubble
Thu 30 Nov Bartosz Pyszkowski (Yukawa Institute, Kyoto) Meson scattering in holographic QCD via the Polchinksi-Strassler prescription
Fri 1 Dec Marika Asgari (University of Hull) Cosmology with weak gravitational lensing

 

Summer 2023

Fri 2 Jun David Benisty (University of Cambridge) Dark Energy (and modified gravity) in two body problem: theoretical implications and observational constraints
Fri 9 Jun Jack Shergold (IPPP, Durham University) Hunting for the cosmic neutrino background
Mon 12 Jun David Wiltshire (University of Canterbury) Cosmic expansion versus motion: Probing the difference
Fri 16 Jun Louis Hamaide (King’s College London) Black hole information recovery from gravitational waves
Fri 23 Jun Astrid Eichhorn (SDU) Quantum gravity and its connection to observations
Fri 30 Jun 10:00 Rudrajit Banerjee (Okinawa Inst.) Self-consistent quantization through N-type cutoffs: background independence and gravity coupled approximants
Fri 21 Jul Gustavo Niz (Universidad de Guanajuato) Using higher order statistics to study the large scale structure

 

Spring 2023

Fri 26 May Paolo Benincasa Cosmological observables and their analytic structure
Fri 19 May Abe Hart Constraining extended-body motion in general relativity
Fri 12 May Adam Pound Progress in gravitational self-force theory: recent advances in modelling asymmetric binaries
Fri 5 May Hugo Lévy Numerical investigation of screened scalar-tensor theories in space-based experiments
Fri 31 Mar Swetha Bhagwat Black hole spectroscopy in the context of identifying modified theories of gravity
Fri 24 Mar Susanna Barsanti (Università degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza") Detecting scalar fields with Extreme Mass Ratio Inspirals and LISA
Fri 10 Mar George Zahariade (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) Quantum Mechanics of Gravitational Waves
Fri 3 Mar Bruno Bento (University of Liverpool) Gravity at the Tip of the Throat
Fri 23 Feb Virtual seminar Yasha Neiman (Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology) Perturbation theory for self-dual gravity in de Sitter space
Thu 23 Feb Virtual seminar Martina Muratore (Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics) Time delay interferometry for LISA science and instrument characterization
Fri 3 Feb Rodrigo Panosso Macedo (University of Southampton) Pseudospectrum and quasinormal mode (in)stability
Fri 3 Feb Virtual seminar Rita Teixeira da Costa (Pinceton University) Revisiting mode stability for Kerr(-dS) black holes

 

Autumn 2022

Fri 9 Dec Xi Tong (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology) Lifting Cosmological Collider Signals with Chemical Potential
Thu 8 Dec Virtual seminar Robyn Munoz (Portsmouth University, UK) Simulations of a quasi-spherical cosmological collapse and gravito-electromagnetic and Petrov invariant characterisation
Fri 2 Dec Samuel Sanchez Lopez (Lancaster University, UK) Quintessential inflation in Palatini modified gravity
Thu 1 Dec Virtual seminar Oliver Janssen (ICTP, Trieste, Italy) Allowable complex spacetimes and the no-boundary proposal
Fri 18 Nov Riccardo Gonzo (University of Edinburgh) Celestial holography on non-trivial backgrounds
Fri 11 Nov Virtual seminar Alessandra Silvestri (Leiden University, Netherlands) Reconstructed Gravity from Cosmological data
Fri 4 Nov Virtual seminar Philippa Cole (GRAPPA, Amsterdam) Disks, spikes and clouds: distinguishing between black hole binary environments with LISA
Thu 3 Nov Virtual seminar Guilherme Franzman (NORDITA/Oscar Klein Center, Sweden) Is our Universe geometrical after all?
Fri 28 Oct Robert Wald (University of Chicago) Quantum Superpositions of Massive Bodies and Gravitationally Mediated Entanglement
Wed 26 Oct Archie Cable (Imperial College London) Second-order stochastic theory for self-interacting scalar fields in de Sitter spacetime
Fri 21 Oct Debika Chowdhury (Swansea University) The rise of the primordial tensor spectrum from an early scalar-tensor epoch
Fri 7 Oct Jamie McDonald (UCLouvain) Hunting for New Physics In Extreme Astrophysical Environments
Fri 30 Sep Virtual seminar Ramit Kumar Dey (University of Western Ontario)

 

 Summer 2022

Fri 23 Sep Online Dr. Lucien Hurtier (IPPP, Durham) Imprints of Mini Primordial Black Holes In Cosmological Data
Fri 9 Sep Online Dr. Giovanni Cabass (Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton) The Boostless Bootstrap in the era of Large-Scale Structure
Fri 2 Sep Online Jack Mitchell (Southampton University) Domain Walls and Chiral Matter in Holography
Fri 12 Aug Online Dr. Mahdiyar Noorbala (University of Tehran)  
Fri 15 Jul Online Krishan Saraswat (Perimeter Institute) Black Hole Thermalization and Microstructure from Microstate Statistics
Fri 17 Jun Online Harry Goodhew (University of Cambridge) Cutting Cosmological Correlators

 

Spring 2022

Fri 27 May Virtual seminar Neomi Frusciante (IA/FCUL, Lisbon) Can Modified Gravity challenge LCDM?
Fri 13 May 11:00 Virtual seminar Samuel Passaglia (Kavli IPMU, Tokyo) Ultralight axions: How a Quantum Field becomes a Cosmological Fluid
Fri 29 Apr Virtual seminar Karthik Rajeev (IIT, Bombay) Is Hartle-Hawking wave function a sum over inflating universes?
Fri 22 Apr Virtual seminar Yuri Shtanov (Bogolyubov Institute, Kiev) Light scalaron as dark matter
Fri 25 Mar Virtual seminar Jahed Abedi (Max Planck Hannover) GW190521: First Measurement of Stimulated Hawking Radiation
Fri 18 Mar Virtual seminar David Cyncynates (Stanford University) Structure of the Oscillon
Fri 11 Mar Virtual seminar Katy Clough (Queens Mary University, London) The problems with Proca: Superradiant growth of vector fields around black holes
Fri 4 Mar Virtual seminar Thomas Helfer (Johns Hopkins University, USA) Gravitational waves from cosmic strings
Fri 25 Feb Virtual seminar H.V Ragavendra (IISER K) Impact of scalar non-Gaussianity on secondary gravitational waves
Fri 11 Feb B17 Moustafa Gharamti, Maciej Jarema and Sam Kirwin-Jones (University of Nottingham) Python library for differential forms
Fri 4 Feb Virtuel seminar Anupam Ray (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research) Decoding the Mystery of Dark Matter with Black Holes
Fri 28 Jan virtual seminar Eemeli Tomberg (NICPB, Tallinn) Stochastic inflation and primordial black holes
Fri 21 Jan Virtual seminar Paolo Creminelli (ICTP) Inflation: perturbation theory and beyond
Fri 14 Jan Virtual seminar Suvrat Raju (International Centre for Theoretical Sciences) Failure of the split property in gravity and the information paradox

 

 Autumn 2021

Fri 1 Oct 13:00 Virtual seminar David Tong (Cambridge) How to give chiral fermions a mass
Fri 8 Oct Virtual seminar Natalie Hogg (Instituto de Física Teórica) The distance duality relation: violations, constraints and biases
Fri 15 Oct Virtual seminar Georgi Dvali (LMU Munich and New York University) Demystifying Black Holes
Fri 22 Oct Virtual seminar Suvrat Raju (International Centre for Theoretical Sciences, Bengaluru) Holography of Information and Massive Islands
Fri 29 Oct 11:00 Virtual seminar Ciaran O'Hare (University of Sydney) Axions as dark matter
Fri 5 Nov Virtual seminar Chloe Gowling (University of Sussex) Observational prospects for phase transitions at LISA: Fisher matrix analysis
Fri 12 Nov Virtual seminar Deaglan Bartlett (University of Oxford) Galactic-Scale Tests of Fundamental Physics
Fri 19 Nov Virtual seminar Swagat Saurav Mishra (University of Nottingham) On Inflationary degeneracies, Reheating constraints and relic Gravitational Waves
Mon 29 Nov 13:00 Virtual seminar Joonas Hirvonen (University of Helsinki) Effective field theory approach to thermal bubble nucleation
Fri 10 Dec Virtual seminar Caio Macedo (Federal University of Pará) Binary evolution in accretion disks and other media

 

 Summer 2021

Fri 23 Apr 16:00 Online Katerina Chatziioannou Studying neutron stars and dense matter with gravitational waves
Fri 30 Apr Online Ashley Wilkins No free diffusion during inflation: How the abundance of Primordial Black Holes constrains the inflationary potential
Fri 7 May Online Yixuan Li Black Holes and the Swampland: the Deep Throat revelations
Fri 14 May Online Chris Byrnes Primordial black holes as a LIGO-Virgo and dark matter candidate
Fri 21 May Online Vivian Poulin CMB, LSS and the distance ladder: cosmic discordance?
Thu 27 May 15:00 Online Gavin Hesketh First results from FNAL Muon g-2
Fri 28 May Online Laura Iacconi Small-Scale Tests of Inflation
Fri 4 Jun Online Maxim Chernodub Transport effects due to scale anomaly in high-energy and solid-state physics
Fri 11 Jun Online Federico Lelli The empirical laws of galactic rotation: dark matter or MOND?
Fri 18 Jun Online Henrique de Oliveira Divide to conquer: spectral-domain decomposition in spherical symmetry and beyond.

 

 Spring 2021

Fri 15 Jan Virtual seminar Diego Cruces (Uni of Barcelona) Stochastic approach to inflation and primordial Black Hole formation
Fri 22 Jan Virtual seminar Henry Tye (Hong Kong UST) Impact of a Naturally Small Cosmological Constant on Phenomenology
Fri 29 Jan Virtual seminar Andreas Karch (U of Texas) Information Transfer with a Gravitating Bath
Fri 5 Feb Virtual seminar Michael Spannowsky (Durham Uni) Novel (Quantum) Computational Methods for Quantum Field Theories
Fri 12 Feb 10:00 Virtual seminar Yevgeny Stadnik (KAVLI IPMU, Tokyo) Probing ultra-low-mass dark matter and macroscopic topological defects via varying fundamental constants
Fri 19 Feb Virtual seminar Ali Chamseddine (American University of Beirut) Quanta of Geometry: Noncommutative Aspects
Fri 26 Feb Virtual seminar Timo Weigand (DESY) Emergent Strings and the Weak Gravity Conjecture in 4d N=1 theories
Fri 5 Mar 16:00 Virtual seminar Djuna Croon (TRIUMF) New Physics and the Black Hole Mass Gap
Fri 12 Mar Virtual seminar Jonas Rezacek (MPIK) Unified emergence of energy scales and cosmic inflation
Fri 19 Mar Virtual seminar Sarah Bridle (University of Manchester) Special Colloquium: Food and Climate Change - a Cosmologists Perspective
Fri 26 Mar Virtual seminar Yvonne Peters (University of Manchester)

 

 Autumn 2020

Fri 25 Sep Virtual seminar Pierre Auclair (APC) Constraints on cosmic strings from gravitational waves, diffuse gamma-ray background and dark matter
Fri 2 Oct Virtual seminar Arthur Hebecker (Heidelberg U.) Swampland, wormholes and global symmetries
Fri 9 Oct Virtual seminar Clifford Johnson (USC) Non-perturbative studies of JT gravity and supergravity
Fri 16 Oct Virtual seminar Juan Cruz (TUM) Gradient effects on false vacuum decay in gauge theory
Fri 23 Oct Virtual seminar Riccardo Penco (Carnegie Mellon U.) An EFT approach to perturbations of black holes with scalar hair
Fri 30 Oct Virtual seminar Mariana Carrillo (U. Penn) Pushing the limits of the double copy
Fri 6 Nov Virtual seminar Luke Hart (U. of Manchester) Reading between the lines: the hidden secrets of recombination
Fri 13 Nov Virtual seminar Juan Maldacena (IAS) The entropy of Hawking radiation
Fri 20 Nov 15:00 Virtual seminar Aleksey Cherman (U. of Minnesota) Higgs-confinement phase transitions with fundamental representation matter
Fri 27 Nov 15:00 Virtual seminar Gary Shiu (U. of Wisconsin) Quantum Gravity and the Swampland
Fri 4 Dec Virtual seminar Hannah Banks (DAMTP, U. of Cambridge) Charting the Fifth Force Landscape
Fri 11 Dec 16:00 Virtual seminar Clifford Cheung (Caltech) From Scattering to the Dynamics of Black Holes and Fluids

 

 Summer 2020

 N/A

 Spring 2020

Fri 17 Jan A113 Emilio Bellini (Oxford U.) The hi_class way for testing gravity: features and physics behind an Einstein-Boltzmann solver
Fri 24 Jan A113 Antony Lewis (Sussex U.) Concordance and tensions, H0 and gravitational lensing
Thu 30 Jan 15:00 A113 Alexander Ganz (Padova U.) Stability properties in mimetic gravity theories
Fri 31 Jan A113 Carsten Van de Bruck (Sheffield U.) Dark energy and the swampland
Fri 7 Feb A113 Christopher Herzog (King's College) Graphene and Boundary Conformal Field Theory
Fri 14 Feb A113 Alessio Spurio Mancini (UCL) Constraining dark energy and modified gravity with combined large-scale structure probes
Fri 21 Feb B17 Kazuya Koyama (ICG, Portsmouth) General relativistic weak-field limit and Newtonian N-body simulations
Fri 28 Feb A113 Pippa Cole (Sussex U.) Primordial black holes and how to produce them
Fri 6 Mar B17 Scott Melville (DAMTP, Cambridge) How to Constrain Inflation as an Effective Field Theorist

 

 Autumn 2019

Fri 4 Oct B17 Sadra Jazayeri (Cambridge U.) Non-Gaussianity and New Probes of Spatial Curvature
Fri 11 Oct B17 Christopher Pattison (ICG Portsmouth) Stochastic inflation: slow roll, primordial black holes, and beyond
Fri 18 Oct B17 Martin Bauer (Duhram U.) Flavour bounds on axion-like particles and a new solution to (g-2)_mu
Fri 25 Oct B17 David Stefanyszyn (Cambridge U.) Putting a new spin on gapped EFTs
Fri 1 Nov B17 David Ho(Imperial College) Worldline instantons for monopole production in heavy-ion collisions
Thu 7 Nov 12:00 A113 Florian Niedermann (CP3-Origins) Addressing the Hubble tension with a first order phase transition in the early universe
Fri 8 Nov B17 Davide Gerosa (Birmingham U.) Multiband gravitational-wave events: rates, detectability, and tests of gravity.
Fri 15 Nov B17 Nassim Bozorgnia (Durham U.) The local dark halo from simulations and Gaia data
Thu 21 Nov 12:00 A113 Dibya Chakraborty (University of Guanajuato, Mexico) Fat Inflatons, Large Turns and the η-problem in D5-brane inflation
Thu 28 Nov 12:00 B13 Perseas Christodoulidis (Gröningen U.) Observational signatures from multi-field inflation
Fri 29 Nov B17 Valerie Domcke (DESY, Hamburg) Baryogenesis from axion inflation
Fri 6 Dec B17 Giovanni Cabass (Max Planck Institute, Munich) The Likelihood for Large-Scale Structure
Fri 13 Dec B17 Jorma Louko (Nottingham U.) Thermality from a Rindler quench: spacetime and laboratory

 

 Summer 2019

Thu 9 May 12:00 A113 Oliver Gould Gravitational waves from any first-order electroweak phase transition: the necessity of new light particles or higher dimensional operators
Fri 17 May 15:00 A113 Patricia Schmidt (Birmingham U.) Gravitational-Wave Asteroseismology with f-Mode Dynamic Tides in Compact Binary Inspirals
Fri 24 May 15:00 A113 Mou Zonggang (Stavanger U.) Real-time path integral via initial density and thimble
Fri 31 May 15:00 A113 Chris Shepherd (Manchester U.) Some like it hot: R2 heals Higgs inflation, but does not cool it
Fri 7 Jun 15:00 A113 Jens Chluba (Jodrell Bank) Cosmology Beyond Thermal Equilibrium: Future Steps with CMB spectral distortions
Thu 13 Jun 15:00 A113 Christos Charmousis (LPT, Orsay U.) Rotating black holes in higher order gravity theories
Thu 20 Jun 15:00 A113 George Zahariade (Arizona State U.) Classical-Quantum correspondence and backreaction
Fri 21 Jun A113 Ivette Fuentes (Nottingham U.) Collective excitations as quantum sensors for fundamental physics
Mon 8 Jul A113 Adam Moss (Nottingham U.) Accelerated Bayesian inference using deep learning

 

 Spring 2019

Fri 18 Jan 15:00 A113 Jonathan Butterworth (University College London) Constraining new physics with model-independent collider measurements
Fri 25 Jan 15:00 A113 Kieran Finn (U. Manchester) The Geometry of inflation
Fri 1 Feb 15:00 A113 Joseph Conlon (U. Oxford) The String Theory Swampland
Fri 8 Feb 15:00 A113 Harry Desmond (U. Oxford) Fifth force searches in galaxies
Fri 15 Feb 15:00 A113 Gavin Hesketh (University College London) New Physics with Muons
Fri 22 Feb 15:00 A113 Lasma Alberte (Imperial College, London) Equivalence Principle on Cosmological Backgrounds in Scalar-Tensor Theories
Thu 28 Feb 12:00 A113 Macarena Lagos (Kavli Institute, Chicago) Cosmological Landscape and gravitational waves
Fri 1 Mar 15:00 A113 Giovanni Tambalo (SISSA, Trieste) Gravitational Wave Decay into Dark Energy
Mon 4 Mar 12:00 B17 Andreas Albrecht (QMAP, California) Decoherence and einselection in equilibrium in an adapted Caldeira Leggett model
Fri 8 Mar 15:00 A113 Matthew McCullough (CERN) Microscopic Origins of the Weak Scale and the Power Spectrum of the LHC
Fri 15 Mar 15:00 A113 Obinna Umeh (ICG Portsmouth) Relativistic galaxy bispectrum: dipole as a unique signature
Fri 22 Mar 15:00 A113 Valerie Domcke (DESY, Hamburg) Particle production in the early Universe
Fri 29 Mar 15:00 B17 Enrico Pajer (Cambridge U.) From symmetries to cosmological observables
Thu 4 Apr 12:00 B17 Andreas Albrecht (QMAP) Decoherence and einselection in equilibrium in an adapted Caldeira Leggett model
Fri 5 Apr 15:00 B17 Hendrik Ulbricht (Southampton U.) Prospects for using levitated optomechanics to test fundamental physics
Fri 12 Apr 15:00 B17 Sukruti Bansal (INFN, Padova) Goldstone Fields with Spins Higher than 1/2

 

Autumn 2018

Fri 5 Oct 15:00 A113 Matthias Bartelmann (U. Heidelberg) An Analytic Approach to Cosmic Structures
Fri 12 Oct 15:00 B17 Sebastian Garcia-Saenz (Institut Astrophysique de Paris) Deforming massive theories
Fri 19 Oct 15:00 A113 Katy Clough (U. Oxford) Collisions of axion stars with black holes and neutron stars
Thu 25 Oct 15:00 A1 Oliver Janssen (New York U.) Damped perturbations in the no-boundary state
Fri 26 Oct 15:00 B23 Pat Scott (Imperial College, London) Searches for Dark Matter with GAMBIT
Thu 1 Nov 15:00 C15 Chemistry James Edholm (Lancaster U.) Removing singularities without quantum gravity: Infinite Derivative Gravity
Fri 2 Nov 15:00 A113 Pedro Carrilho (Queen Mary, London) Isocurvatures at second order and Magnetogenesis
Fri 9 Nov 15:00 A113 Emir Gumrukcuoglu (ICG Portsmouth) A search for new interactions: the multi-geometry approach and its application to massive spin--2 theory
Fri 16 Nov 15:00 A113 Bradley Kavanagh (GRAPPA, Amsterdam) Black Holes' Dark Dress: mergers of primordial black holes and the impact of Dark Matter halos
Fri 23 Nov 15:00 A113 Diego Blas (King's College London) Constrains on Ultra-Light Dark Matter from Galactic Rotation Curves
Fri 30 Nov 15:00 A113 Edward Hardy (U. Liverpool) Axions from strings
Thu 6 Dec 15:00 C14 Satadru Bag (Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Pune) Discussing dark energy models from theoretical points of view
Fri 7 Dec 15:00 A113 Ogan Ozsoy (Swansea U.) Probing Early Universe on small scales
Fri 14 Dec 15:00 A113 Daniele Teresi (U. Pisa) A Clockwork Tale

 

 Summer 2018

 N/A

Spring 2018

Fri 26 Jan 15:00 A113 Matteo Fasiello Probes of late-time Cosmic Acceleration
Fri 2 Feb 15:00 A113 Valya Khoze The Higgsploding Universe
Fri 9 Feb 15:00 A113 Brando Bellazzini Beyond Amplitudes’ Positivity and the Space of (In)consistent EFTs
Fri 16 Feb 15:00 A113 Khim Wong Screened fifth forces in the light of precision QED
Fri 23 Feb 15:00 A113 Alessio Spurio Mancini Testing Horndeski gravity with 3D and tomographic cosmic shear
Fri 2 Mar 15:00 A113 Natalia Pinzani Fokeeva Schwinger-Keldysh effective field theories
Fri 16 Mar 15:00 A113 Ines Aniceto Asymptotics in gauge and string theories
Fri 6 Apr 15:00 A113 Luca Di Luzio Axion couplings beyond standard scenarios
Fri 13 Apr 15:00 A113 Yashar Akrami Inflation meets dark energy: $\alpha$-attractor quintessential inflation in the era of precision cosmology
Fri 20 Apr 15:00 A113 Yang-Hui He Machine-learning the Landscape
Fri 27 Apr 15:00 A113 Chris Clarkson Roulettes: A weak lensing formalism for strong lensing
Fri 4 May 15:00 A113 Ignacy Sawicki CANCELLED
Fri 11 May 15:00 A113 Davide Racco Cosmological signatures of the SM Higgs instability: Primordial Black Holes and Gravitational Waves
Fri 18 May 15:00 A113 Harvey Reall On the well-posedness of Lovelock and Horndeski theories of gravity
Fri 25 May 15:00 A113 Isabel Garcia Garcia Disassembling the Clockwork Mechanism
Fri 22 Jun 15:00 A113 Joachim Brod Effective Theory for Dark Matter Direct Detection
Fri 29 Jun 15:00 A113 Hedda Gressel Weak lensing from linear to nonlinear scales in the Post-Friedmann approximation

 

 Autumn 2017

Fri 1 Sep 15:00 A 113 CAPT Alexander Vilenkin Black holes from cosmic inflation
Mon 4 Sep 15:30 A 113 CAPT Gianmassimo Tasinato Open quantum systems and cosmological inflation
Tue 5 Sep 15:30 A 113 CAPT James Scargill Unusual Vacuum Decay Events in the Early Universe
Fri 29 Sep 15:00 A 113 CAPT Paul Sutcliffe Knots and Vortices
Fri 6 Oct 15:00 A 113 CAPT Arttu Rajantie Vacuum stability and the Higgs-gravity coupling
Fri 13 Oct 15:00 B 17 Benjamin Elder Searching for Fifth Forces with Atom Interferometry
Thu 19 Oct 15:00 C27+ Michele Zoccali Ghosts in Yang-Mills-squared: the BRST story
Fri 20 Oct 15:00 A 113 CAPT Eugenio Del Nobile Generalizing Minimal Dark Matter: Millicharge or Decay
Fri 27 Oct 15:00 B 13 Hiren Patel Automated Calculation of One Loop Integrals with Package-X and CollierLink
Fri 3 Nov 15:00 A 113 CAPT Tessa Baker Frameworks for Testing Gravity: Theory and Recent Constraints
Fri 10 Nov 15:00 A 113 CAPT Joe Kennedy Reconstructing Horndeski models from the effective field theory of dark energy
Fri 17 Nov 15:00 A 113 CAPT Bernd Schroers Vortices, conical geometry and magnetic zero modes
Thu 23 Nov 15:00 A 113 CAPT Antoine Lehebel The hair of compact objects in Horndeski theory
Fri 24 Nov A 113 CAPT Ivonne Zavala 2pm !!!!!!!!!! not 3 D-brane Scalar-Tensor Theories and the Thermal Dark Matter Scenari
Fri 1 Dec 15:00 A 113 CAPT Tevong You Searching for new physics beyond the Standard Model in the post-Higgs-discovery era
Thu 7 Dec 15:00 B 17 Andrea Maselli Challenging the black holes scenario with gravitational wave observations
Fri 8 Dec 15:00 A 113 CAPT Cora Uhlemann Cosmic Structure Formation pushed to the nonlinear regime
Fri 15 Dec 15:00 A 113 CAPT Ole Steuernagel A geometric view of dynamics in quantum phase space

 

 Summer 2017

Fri 12 May 15:00 B17 Malcolm Perry (DAMTP) Soft hair on black holes
Tue 16 May 15:00 C12 Vincent Vennin (ICG, Portsmouth) Can we show that cosmological perturbations are of quantum mechanical origin?
Fri 19 May 15:00 B17 Karim Thebault (Bristol) Schroedinger evolution for the universe: singularity resolution
Fri 26 May 15:00 B17 Jonathan Braden (UCL) Cosmological imprints of the ultra-large scale universe
Fri 9 Jun 15:00 B17 Carlos Tamarit (Durham) Unifying inflation with the axion, dark matter, baryogenesis and the seesaw mechanism
Fri 16 Jun 15:00 B17 Tommi Markkanen (King's College London) Evaporation of the de Sitter horizon
Fri 23 Jun 15:00 B17 Daniela Saadeh (Nottingham) How isotropic is the Universe?
Thu 29 Jun 13:00 A113 Nathan Moynihan (Cape Town) Amplitudes and gravity
Fri 7 Jul 14:30 A113 Silvia Nagy (Nottingham) Gravity as the square of a gauge theory: from classical to quantum

 

 Spring 2017

Fri 20 Jan 15:00 B17 Daniel Thomas (U. Cyprus) Under pressure: constraining extensions of Cold Dark Matter
Fri 27 Jan 15:00 B17 Charlotte Owen (U. Lancaster) A New Era of Quintessential Inflation
Fri 3 Feb 15:00 B17 Nils Andersson (U. Southampton) Relativistic fluid dynamics: From variation to dissipation
Thu 9 Feb 14:30 Physics C27 David Tong (DAMTP) What is the gauge group of the Standard Model?
Fri 17 Feb 15:00 B17 Sarah Malik (Imperial College London) Review of the status and future prospects of dark matter searches at colliders
Fri 24 Feb 15:00 B17 Nick Manton (DAMTP) Exotic Vortices and their Dynamics
Fri 3 Mar 15:00 B17 Basem El-Manoufi (U. Sussex) Quantum gravity effects on the thermodynamic stability of 4D Schwarzschild black hole
Fri 10 Mar 15:00 A1 José Vieira (U. Sussex) Cosmology with negative absolute temperatures
Fri 17 Mar 15:00 B17 Matthew Hull (ICG, Portsmouth) Non-linear vector interactions and cosmological self-acceleration
Fri 24 Mar 15:00 B17 Victor Ambrus (West Timisoara U.) Quantum corrections in rigidly-rotating thermal states
Fri 31 Mar 15:00 B17 Dieter Lüst (LMU) Quantum aspects of black holes
Fri 28 Apr 15:00 B17 Shin'ichiro Ando (GRAPPA) Anisotropy probes of dark matter annihilation

 

 Autumn 2016

Fri 2 Sep 14:30 A113 Andrew Fowlie (Monash University) Naturalness of the relaxion mechanism
Fri 30 Sep 14:30 Viraj Sanghai (QMUL) Using the post-Newtonian formalism to understand general relativity and its alternatives on cosmological scales
Fri 7 Oct 15:00 Sally Shaw (UCL) The LUX & LZ Dark Matter Experiments: WIMP Hunting in the Black Hills
Fri 14 Oct 15:00 Cohl Furey (DAMTP) Charge quantization from a number operator
Fri 21 Oct 15:00 Julia Harz (LPTHE) Towards a precise prediction of the dark matter relic density within the MSSM
Fri 28 Oct 15:00 Babette Döbrich (CERN) Craze and shine - Axion-like particle searches with photons
Fri 4 Nov 15:00 Giovanni Cabass (La Sapienza) CMB Spectral Distortions: A Window on Inflation at Small Scales
Fri 11 Nov 15:00 Kaloian Lozanov (IoA, Cambridge) The equation of state after inflation
Fri 18 Nov 15:00 Michael Spannowsky (Durham) Energizing Higgs Phenomenology for Run-2
Fri 25 Nov 15:00 Teppei Katori (QMUL) Tests of Lorentz and CPT violation with neutrinos
Fri 2 Dec 15:00 David Weir (Helsinki) First-order phase transitions and gravitational waves
Fri 9 Dec 15:00 Sotirios Karamitsos (Manchester) Frame-Covariant Formalism of Inflation in the Slow-Roll Approximation

 

 Summer 2016

Fri 22 Apr 14:30 A113 Stephan Huber (Sussex) The status of the electroweak phase transition and prospects for LHC run 2
Fri 29 Apr A113 Francesca Day (Oxford) Astrophysical signatures of axions
Wed 4 May 11:00 A113 Ippocratis Saltas (IA, Lisbon) Bridging cosmology and astrophysics with gravitational waves
Fri 6 May A113 Vincent Vennin (ICG Portsmouth) Correlation functions in stochastic inflation
Fri 13 May A113 Lavinia Heisenberg (ETH Zurich) Derivative self-interactions for a massive vector field
Fri 20 May A113 Susan Cartwright (Sheffield) Neutrino oscillations: past, present and future
Fri 27 May A113 Florian Niedermann (LMU Munich) Natural braneworlds in six dimensions and the cosmological constant problem
Fri 3 Jun A113 Sam Dolan (Sheffield) Binary black hole shadows, the Cantor set, and bound photon orbits
Fri 10 Jun A113 Sally Shaw (UCL) *** Postponed ***
Thu 16 Jun 12:00 B17 Bradley Kavanagh (LPTHE, Paris) 'You Better Run' - connecting low-energy Dark Matter searches with high-energy physics
Fri 24 Jun A113 Steffen Gielen (Imperial) Perfect Bounce in quantum cosmology
Fri 8 Jul A113 David Wiltshire (University of Canterbury, New Zealand) Models of inhomogeneity and backreaction in cosmology

 

 Summer 2016

Fri 22 Apr 14:30 A113 Stephan Huber (Sussex) The status of the electroweak phase transition and prospects for LHC run 2
Fri 29 Apr A113 Francesca Day (Oxford) Astrophysical signatures of axions
Wed 4 May 11:00 A113 Ippocratis Saltas (IA, Lisbon) Bridging cosmology and astrophysics with gravitational waves
Fri 6 May A113 Vincent Vennin (ICG Portsmouth) Correlation functions in stochastic inflation
Fri 13 May A113 Lavinia Heisenberg (ETH Zurich) Derivative self-interactions for a massive vector field
Fri 20 May A113 Susan Cartwright (Sheffield) Neutrino oscillations: past, present and future
Fri 27 May A113 Florian Niedermann (LMU Munich) Natural braneworlds in six dimensions and the cosmological constant problem
Fri 3 Jun A113 Sam Dolan (Sheffield) Binary black hole shadows, the Cantor set, and bound photon orbits
Fri 10 Jun A113 Sally Shaw (UCL) *** Postponed ***
Thu 16 Jun 12:00 B17 Bradley Kavanagh (LPTHE, Paris) 'You Better Run' - connecting low-energy Dark Matter searches with high-energy physics
Fri 24 Jun A113 Steffen Gielen (Imperial) Perfect Bounce in quantum cosmology
Fri 8 Jul A113 David Wiltshire (University of Canterbury, New Zealand) Models of inhomogeneity and backreaction in cosmology

 

 Spring 2016

Fri 15 Jan 10:00 A113 UK-QFT V Progress in Quantum Field Theory and Gravity: from Colliders to Cosmology
Fri 22 Jan A113 Donough Regan (Sussex) Hemispherical power asymmetry from a scale dependent bispectrum
Fri 29 Jan A113 Jessica Turner (Durham) Leptonic observables from A5 with Generalised CP and prospects for their discovery
Fri 5 Feb A113 Susha Parameswaran (Liverpool) Axion Models of Inflation from String Theory
Fri 12 Feb A113 Bjorn Garbrecht (TU Munich) Leptogenesis
Fri 19 Feb A113 Jeff Forshaw (Manchester) Accounting for soft gluons in QCD
Fri 26 Feb A113 Eugeny Babichev (Paris Sud) Formation of caustics in k-essence and Horndeski theory
Fri 4 Mar A113 Gianmassimo Tasinato (Swansea) Cosmological inflation, effective field theory, and symmetry breaking
Fri 11 Mar A113 Carl Bender (Washington St. Louis) Nonlinear eigenvalue problems and PT symmetry
Fri 18 Mar A113 Darren Price (Manchester) The LHC physics programme so far and future potential
Fri 1 Apr A113 Neil Sculthorpe (Royal Holloway) Concepts of Functional Programming
Fri 8 Apr A113 Nikolaos Stergioulas (Thessaloniki) A unified picture of the post-merger dynamics and gravitational wave emission in neutron-star mergers
Fri 15 Apr A113 Tim Jones (Liverpool) Dimensional Transmutation and Quantum Gravity

 

Autumn 2015

Thu 24 Sep 15:00 B21 George Zahariade (UC Davis) Propagation peculiarities of mean field massive gravity
Fri 2 Oct C14 (Physics) Astrid Eichhorn (Imperial) Towards an asymptotically safe quantum field theory of gravity and matter
Fri 9 Oct C14 (Physics) Guilherme Pimentel (DAMTP) Inflation and conformal symmetry
Fri 16 Oct A113 Brian Pitts (Cambridge) Universally Coupled Massive Gravity: dRGT-Maheshwari Pure Spin-2, Ogievetsky-Polubarinov and Arbitrary Mass Terms
Fri 23 Oct C14 (Physics) Paul McFadden (Imperial) Soft limits in holographic cosmology
Fri 30 Oct C14 (Physics) Aaron Vincent (Durham) Robust direct and indirect bounds on simplified models of thermal dark matter
Fri 6 Nov A113 Celine Boehm (Durham) Probing the microphysics of dark matter with cosmology
Fri 13 Nov A113 Hannu Nyrhinen (Helsinki) Scalarisation of disformally coupled accretion disks
Fri 20 Nov A113 Daniel Figueroa (CERN) A stiff Higgstory of the Universe
Fri 27 Nov C14 (Physics) Joe Zuntz (Manchester) Early cosmology from the Dark Energy Survey
Fri 4 Dec A113 Gerasimos Rigopoulos (Newcastle) The quantum/stochastic scalar field in de Sitter
Fri 11 Dec A113 Davide Gerosa (DAMTP) Stellar collapse in scalar-tensor theories of gravity: prospects for gravitational-wave astronomy
Fri 18 Dec A113 James Unwin (University of Illinois) Beyond WIMP Dark Matter

 

 Summer 2015

Fri 1 May C14 (physics) Tim Clifton (QMUL) Inhomogeneous cosmological models, Friedmann backgrounds, and the influence of structure on the large-scale evolution of the Universe.
Fri 8 May C14 (physics) Philipp Grothaus (Kings) Dark Matter detection beyond the neutrino bound
Mon 11 May C12 (physics) Alkistis Pourtsidou Introduction to 21cm Cosmology
Fri 15 May Daniel Baumann (DAMTP) Probing the Nature of Inflation
Fri 22 May Steffen Glielen (Imperial) Space as a quantum gravity condensate: quantum cosmology from fundamental quantum gravity
Fri 29 May Djuna Croon (Sussex) Inflating with Goldstone bosons
Fri 5 Jun Tommaso Giannantonio (IoA) Testing structure formation with the Dark Energy Survey and the CMB
Fri 12 Jun    
Fri 19 Jun Francesca Calore The Fermi GeV excess: status and perspectives
Fri 26 Jun Phillippe Brax Distinguishing modified gravity models
Fri 10 Jul Jeff Steinhauer Observation of self-amplifying Hawking radiation in an analog black hole laser

 

 Spring 2015

Fri 16 Jan Thomas Metcalf (Edinburgh) Dissipative Effects in the Early Universe
Fri 23 Jan Guilia Gubitosi (Imperial) Dimensional reduction in the sky
Fri 30 Jan Benjamin Withers (Soton) Inhomogeneity and the Einstein equations
Fri 6 Feb Alec Graham (DAMTP) Weak Singularities in Cosmology
Fri 13 Feb Alessandra Silvestri (SISSA) Testing general relativity on cosmological scales
Fri 20 Feb Christian Boehmer (UCL) A new approach to modifying theories of gravity
Thu 26 Feb C14 Mikael von Strauss (IAP) On spin-2 interactions and the Massive gravity limit
Fri 6 Mar David Cerdeno (Durham) Detection and identification of low-mass WIMPs
Fri 13 Mar Eugene Lim (KCL) How Quantum are the Cosmological Correlations?
Fri 20 Mar Garett Goon (DAMTP) Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking and Massive Gravity
Fri 27 Mar Christoph Englert (Glasgow) Higgs physics in perspective

 

 Autumn 2014

Wed 3 Sep 16:00 Pope C1 Henrique Gomes (UC Davies) Conformal geometrodynamics regained
Fri 3 Oct A113 Joan Camps (Cambridge) Generalized entropy and higher derivative Gravity
Fri 10 Oct A113 Lucas Lombriser (Edinburgh) Cosmological and galactic effects of (non)linearly shielded modifications of gravity
Fri 17 Oct A113 Jonathan Davis (Durham) DAMA and CoGeNT without Dark Matter
Fri 24 Oct C13 (Physics) Johannes Noller (Oxford) The spin-2 sector and its interactions
Fri 31 Oct A113 Ron Edwards (Hull) Gerbes on the Lattice
Fri 7 Nov A113 Tim Adamo (Cambridge) Gravity as a worldsheet theory
Fri 14 Nov A113 Jocelyn Monroe (Royal Holloway) Searching for the Dark Matter Wind: Recent Progress from the DMTPC Experiment
Fri 21 Nov A113 Hans Winther (Oxford) The Vainhstein mechanism beyond the quasi-static limit
Fri 28 Nov A113 Adam Solomon (Cambridge) Are Two Metrics Better Than One?: The Cosmology of Massive (Bi)gravity
Fri 5 Dec A113 Mafalda Dias (Sussex) Complexity in inflation
Fri 12 Dec A113 Xavier Calmet (Sussex) Effective field theory approach to quantum gravity

 

 Autumn 2014

Wed 3 Sep 16:00 Pope C1 Henrique Gomes (UC Davies) Conformal geometrodynamics regained
Fri 3 Oct A113 Joan Camps (Cambridge) Generalized entropy and higher derivative Gravity
Fri 10 Oct A113 Lucas Lombriser (Edinburgh) Cosmological and galactic effects of (non)linearly shielded modifications of gravity
Fri 17 Oct A113 Jonathan Davis (Durham) DAMA and CoGeNT without Dark Matter
Fri 24 Oct C13 (Physics) Johannes Noller (Oxford) The spin-2 sector and its interactions
Fri 31 Oct A113 Ron Edwards (Hull) Gerbes on the Lattice
Fri 7 Nov A113 Tim Adamo (Cambridge) Gravity as a worldsheet theory
Fri 14 Nov A113 Jocelyn Monroe (Royal Holloway) Searching for the Dark Matter Wind: Recent Progress from the DMTPC Experiment
Fri 21 Nov A113 Hans Winther (Oxford) The Vainhstein mechanism beyond the quasi-static limit
Fri 28 Nov A113 Adam Solomon (Cambridge) Are Two Metrics Better Than One?: The Cosmology of Massive (Bi)gravity
Fri 5 Dec A113 Mafalda Dias (Sussex) Complexity in inflation
Fri 12 Dec A113 Xavier Calmet (Sussex) Effective field theory approach to quantum gravity

 

 Summer 2014

Fri 2 May A113 David Marsh (Perimeter) Axion Dark Matter from Inflation to Galaxy Formation
Fri 9 May A113 Emir Gumrukcuoglu (Nottingham) Viable cosmology from bimetric theory
Fri 16 May A113 Henrique Araujo (Imperial) LUX on dark matter
Fri 23 May A113 James Scargrill (Oxford) Interacting Spin-2 Fields in the Stueckelberg Picture
Fri 30 May A113 Diego Blas (CERN) Lorentz violation in gravity: why, how, where
Fri 6 Jun A113 Filippo Sala (IPhT, Paris) A minimal model for dark matter and vacuum stability
Fri 13 Jun A113 David Mulryne (QMU London) Multiple field inflation: Methods and models
Thu 19 Jun A113 Ishwaree Neupane (Canterbury, New Zealand) Confronting Gauss-Bonnet Inflation and Braneword Cosmology with Planck 2013 Results
Fri 20 Jun A113 Shinji Mukohyama (IPMU, Japan) Massive gravity and cosmology
Fri 27 Jun A113 Helvi Witek (Cambridge) Black holes as observatories for beyond-standard model physics
Fri 4 Jul A113 Emilio Bellini (University of Barcelona, ICC) Maximal freedom in general scalar-tensor theories
Fri 11 Jul A113 Kurt Hinterbichler (Perimeter) Partially Massless Gravity
Tue 12 Aug A113 David Parkinson (Queensland) Lessons from BICEP2
Wed 20 Aug A113 Stefanyszyn (Nottingham) Unitarity and the Vainshtein Mechanism

 

 Spring 2014

Fri 17 Jan C04 (Physics) Carsten van de Bruck (Sheffield) CMB observables and modifications of gravity
Tue 21 Jan A113 Qaisar Shafi (Delaware) Higgs Boson and New Particles at LHC
Fri 24 Jan C04 (Physics) Joseph Conlon (Oxford) Dark Radiation and a 0.1-1keV Cosmic Axion Background
Fri 31 Jan C04 (Physics) Amjad Ashoorioon (Lancaster) M-flation, Signatures and Advantages
Fri 7 Feb C04 (Physics) Dan Thomas (Portsmouth) Newtonian and Post-Newtonian Cosmology: c → ∞ and Beyond
Fri 14 Feb C04 (Physics) Daniel Siemssen (Genova) Global Existence of Solutions of the Semiclassical Einstein Equation on Cosmological Spactimes
Fri 21 Feb A113 Will Percival (Portsmouth) Latest baryon acoustic oscillation measurements from BOSS
Fri 28 Feb A113 Yi Wang (Cambridge) A no-go theorem for generalized vector Galileons on flat spacetime
Thu 6 Mar A113 Gordon Kane (Michigan) M theory and the Higgs boson mass
Fri 7 Mar A113 Peter Adshead (Cambridge) Inflation from Magnetic Drift
Fri 14 Mar A113 Lisa Glaser (Niels Bohr Institute) The Hamiltonian in 2d CDT and Horava Lifshitz gravity
Fri 21 Mar A113 Jonathan Pearson (Durham) Constraining properties of the dark universe
Fri 28 Mar A113 Chris Blair (Cambridge) Manifest dualities in supergravity: double and extended field theory
Fri 4 Apr A113 Rodolfo Russo (Queen Mary) Probing D-branes in the Regge limit
Thu 10 Apr 15:00 C29 (Coates) Bill Unruh (British Columbia) Fuzzballs and Firewalls -- a critical perspective
Fri 11 Apr A113 Camille Bonvin (Cambridge) Measuring relativistic effects with anti-symmetric galaxy correlations

 

Autumn 2013

Tue 10 Sep A113 Yuki Watanabe (Resceu, Japan) Gravitational particle production and non-Gaussianity in supergravity R^2 inflation
Thu 12 Sep A113 Scott Watson (Syracusse) Supersymmetry, Nonthermal Dark Matter and Precision Cosmology
Fri 13 Sep A113 Gabriele Veneziano (CERN & College de France, Paris) Transplanckian collisions of particles, strings and branes: what can (have) we learn(ed)?
Thu 19 Sep A113 Layne Price (Auckland) Multifield Inflation: Initial Conditions and Predictions
Fri 27 Sep A113 Peter Millington (Manchester) Perturbative Non-Equilibrium Thermal Field Theory
Fri 4 Oct C27 Antony Lewis (Sussex) CMB beyond a single power spectrum
Fri 11 Oct 15:00 C28 (Coates) Mikjel Thorsrud (Oslo) Inflation with vector interactions
Fri 18 Oct 15:00 C28 (Coates) Nick Mavromatos (KCL) Inflation from gravitino condensation in dynamically broken supergravity and Planck data
Fri 25 Oct 15:00 C28 (Coates) Mustafa Amin (Cambridge) After inflation
Fri 1 Nov 15:00 A113 Lado Samushia (Portsmouth) Testing Dark Energy and Gravity with BOSS survey
Fri 8 Nov 15:00 A113 Michelle Maggiore (Geneva) Non-local infrared modifications of gravity and dark energy
Fri 15 Nov 15:00 A113 Norihiro Tanahashi (Cambridge) Multi-field G-inflation
Fri 22 Nov 15:00 A113 Sarah Bridle (Manchester) Quantifying Dark Energy using Cosmic Lensing
Fri 29 Nov 15:00 C14 (Physics) Daniel Litim (Sussex) Quo vadis quantum gravity?
Fri 6 Dec 11:00 C14 (Physics) Arjun Bererra (Edinburgh) Testing warm inflation to Planck results
Fri 13 Dec 15:00 C14 (Physics) Filipe Abdalla (UCL) Hunting for the first light during the epoch of reionisation

 

 Summer 2013

Fri 12 Apr Joel Meyers (CITA) Multiple-Field Inflation in the Post-Planck Era
Fri 26 Apr Roberto Emparan (Barcelona) The large D limit of General Relativity
Fri 3 May Timothy Hollowood (Swansea) The Copenhagen Interpretation as an Emergent Phenomenon
Fri 10 May Ruth Gregory (Durham) Vortices, Black Holes and Hair
Fri 17 May Tim Morris (Southampton) Asymptotic safety in the f(R) approximation
Fri 24 May Jeremy Sakstein (Cambridge) Detecting Modified Gravity in the Stars
Fri 31 May Eran Palti (Ecole Polytechnique) (CANCELLED)
Fri 7 Jun Clive Speake (Birmingham) Newton's Gravitation: still controversial after more than 300 years
Tue 11 Jun Physics C4 Aron Wall (UCSB) Why is the Generalized Second Law True?
Wed 12 Jun Viatcheslav Mukhanov (Munich) Quantum Origin of Universe Structure (CANCELLED)
Fri 21 Jun Jolyon Bloomfield (Cornell) Effective Field Theory Approaches to Dark Energy

 

 Spring 2013

Fri 18 Jan 15:00 Jonathan Frazer (Sussex) Predictions in Multifield Inflation
Fri 25 Jan 15:00 Massimo Bianchi (Rome) Higher Spins and Scattering off D-Branes
Fri 1 Feb 15:00 Daniel Lopez (Buenos Aires) Displaced multileptons at the LHC, probing the mu-from-nu supersymmetric standard model
Fri 8 Feb 15:00 Ali Mozaffari (Imperial) The Case for Testing Modified Gravity in the Solar System
Fri 15 Feb 15:00 Felix Kahlhoefer (Oxford) Describing Dark Matter with Effective Operators
Fri 22 Feb 15:00 Gabrijela Zaharijas (ICTP) Indirect searches for dark matter with the Fermi Large Area Telescope
Fri 1 Mar 15:00 Marika Taylor (Southampton) Higher derivative gravity and holography
Fri 8 Mar 15:00 Oriol Pujolas (Barcelona) Emergent Lorentz Invariance
Wed 13 Mar 15:00 Stefano Camera (Lisbon, CENTRA) Cosmology as a Tool for Testing the Law of Gravity
Thu 21 Mar 09:00 B17 Adam Moss (Nottingham) First Cosmological Results from the Planck Experiment
Fri 22 Mar 15:00 Matt Dolan (Durham) The Eternal Sunshine of the Supersymmetric Mind

 

Autumn 2012

Fri 5 Oct A113 Karim Malik (QMUL) Cosmological perturbation theory: gauge invariance and recent applications
Fri 12 Oct C14 Xian Gao (APC Paris) Influence of heavy modes on perturbations in multiple field inflation
Fri 19 Oct A113 Ian Morrison (DAMTP) A cosmic no-hair theorem for quantum gravity in de Sitter space
Fri 26 Oct A113 Neil Barnaby (DAMTP) Probing the Physics of Inflation
Fri 2 Nov A113 Donough Regan (Sussex) Large Scale Structure as a Probe of Primordial Non-Gaussianity
Tue 6 Nov B13 Jack Laiho (Glasgow) Lattice Quantum Gravity
Fri 9 Nov A113 Everyone (JAMBOREE)
Tue 13 Nov B13 Mikhail Shaposhnikov (Ecole Polytechnique) Scale-Invariant Alternatives to General Relativity
Tue 20 Nov B13 Richard Woodard (University of Florida) Interacting Quantum Fields on de Sitter Space
Thu 22 Nov C14 Peter Dunsby (University of Cape Town) Unravelling the Nature of f(R) Gravity
Fri 23 Nov A113 Richard Woodard (University of Florida) Nonlocal Cosmology
Tue 27 Nov C27 Christoph Weniger (Max Planck, Munich) Tentative observation of a gamma-ray line at the Fermi LAT
Fri 30 Nov 11:00 A1 Eleftheria Tzavara (Paris-Sud 11) There and back again ... a tale about two-field inflation and non-Gaussiainity
Fri 30 Nov A113 Joseph Elliston (QMUL) The inflationary bispectrum in curved field space
Fri 7 Dec A113 Maria Montserrat Juarez-Aubry (CINESTAV-IPN, Mexico) Towards the Uniqueness of Lifshitz Black Holes in New Massive Gravity
Fri 14 Dec A113 Gianluca Calcagni (IEM-CSIC, Madrid)

 

 Summer 2012

Fri 20 Apr A113 Jorge Santos (UCSB) Gravitational Turbulent Instability of AdS
Fri 4 May A113 Mattia Fornasa (Nottingham) What Can We Learn From Gamma-Ray Anisotropies
Thu 10 May A113 Kirill Krasnov (Nottingham) A Gauge-Theoretic Approach to Gravity
Fri 18 May A113 David Seery (Sussex) Non-gaussianity as a tool to probe unknown physics
Fri 25 May A113 Iain Brown (Oslo) Gauge Issues and Flexible Codes in Modified Gravity
Wed 30 May 15:15 A113 Ippocratis Saltas (Sussex) Cosmology and the Renormalisation Group
Fri 1 Jun A113 Shaun Hotchkiss (Helsinki) Extreme Galaxy Clusters and Non-Gaussianity
Fri 8 Jun A113 Paul Sutcliffe (Durham) Magnetic Vortex Rings
Thu 14 Jun A113 Ana Achucarro (Leiden) Inflation with Turning Trajectories: Features of Heavy Physics in the Primordial Perturbations
Fri 29 Jun A113 Minas Tsoukalas (CECs, Chile) Conformally coupled scalar fields in higher dimensions: nontrivial vacua, instantons, and a generalization of the Yamabe problem
Tue 3 Jul A113 V. K. Dubrovich (St. Petersburg) Spectral and spectral-spatial distortions of the Cosmic Microwave Background

 

 Spring 2012

Fri 13 Jan B17 Carlos Martins (Porto U.) Three Tests of ΛCDM
Fri 20 Jan B17 Francisco Pedro (Oxford) Moduli Stabilisation and Inflation in Type IIB String Theory
Fri 27 Jan A113 Graham Ross (Oxford) Whither SUSY
Fri 3 Feb A113 Juha Jaykka (Leeds) Supercurrent Coupling and Knot Solitons
Fri 10 Feb A113 William Black (QMUL) Exploring String-Brane Interactions at the Planck Scale
Fri 17 Feb UP-BIOL-B1+ Mark Jackson (APC) Effective Field Theory in Inflation
Fri 24 Feb A113 Filippo Vernizzi (CEA-Saclay) Squeezing the CMB and the Cosmic Shear Bispectra
Fri 2 Mar A113 Tessa Baker (Oxford) A Parameterised Approach to Testing Gravity
Fri 9 Mar A113 David Lyth (Lancaster) The Inflating Curvaton
Wed 14 Mar 13:00 B17 Keiichi Akama (Saitama Medical University, Japan) General Solution of the Braneworld with Schwarzschild Ansatz
Fri 16 Mar B17 Chris McCabe (Durham) Comparing Direct Detection Experiments Without Astrophysical Uncertainties
Fri 23 Mar B17 Neville Harnew (Oxford) Selected physics results with LHCb
Fri 30 Mar A113 Silke Weinfurtner (SISSA) Spectral Dimension as a Probe of the Ultraviolet Continuum Regime of Causal Dynamical Triangulations

 

 Autumn 2011

Fri 30 Sep Sarah Chadburn (Durham) Using Extra Dimensions to Detect Cosmic Strings
Fri 7 Oct Joao Magueijo (Imperial) Cosmology Meets Quantum Gravity: a Chiral Signature in our Universe?
Fri 14 Oct Fay Dowker (Imperial) Entropy of Causal Horizons from Causal Sets
Fri 21 Oct Mark Goodsell (DESY) Dark Forces from the Top Down
Fri 28 Oct Jonathan Pearson (Manchester) Domain Wall Network Dynamics
Fri 4 Nov Stephen West (RHUL) Asymmetric Dark Matter
Fri 11 Nov Gianmassimo Tasinato (Portsmouth) Inhomogeneous Non-Gaussianity **CANCELLED**
Fri 18 Nov Mafalda Dias (Sussex) **CANCELLED**
Fri 25 Nov Anupam Mazumdar (Lancaster) Inflation and the LHC
Fri 2 Dec Camille Bonvin (Cambridge) What Galaxy Surveys Really Measure
Fri 9 Dec Kostas Skenderis (Amsterdam) The Holographic Universe
Mon 12 Dec B17 Clare Burrage Chronology Protection for the Galileon and Massive Gravity

 

 Summer 2011

Fri 1 Apr Chris Byrnes (Bielefeld) Informal discussion on non-gaussianity.
Fri 8 Apr Pier-Stefano Corasaniti (Observatoire de Paris, Meudon) A path-integral approach to halo counting statistics.
Fri 15 Apr Douglas Shaw (Cambridge) A testable solution of the Cosmological Constant and Coincidence Problems.
Fri 6 May Gustavo Niz (Portsmouth) Can the graviton have a mass?
Thu 12 May Gianfranco Bertone (IAP and Zurich) Identifying Dark Matter Particles
Tue 17 May Shuang-Yong Zhou (Nottingham) Multi-Galileon Modified Gravity
Mon 23 May Rhiannon Gwyn (Kings college, London) Theoretical constraints on brane inflation and cosmic superstring radiation.
Fri 27 May Richard Battye (Manchester) Perturbations in Dark Energy and Modified Gravity.
Fri 3 Jun Syksy Rasanen (Helsinki) Backreaction as an alternative to dark energy and modified gravity.
Tue 7 Jun Martin Feix (St. Andrews) On the growth of density perturbations in tensor-vector-scalar theory.
Mon 13 Jun 12:00 Pau Figueras (Cambridge) Ricci flow, braneworld black holes and strongly coupled CFT on the background of Schwarzschild.

 

 Spring 2011

Fri 7 Jan    
Fri 14 Jan John Barrett (Nottingham) Induced gravity and unification.
Fri 21 Jan Gianfranco Bertone (IAP - Institut d' Astrophysique de Paris) Postponed for mid May
Fri 28 Jan Emily Nurse (UCL) Soft QCD and other early results from ATLAS.
Fri 4 Feb    
Fri 11 Feb Gong-Bo Zhao (Portsmouth) High resolution N-body simulation for f(R) gravity.
Fri 18 Feb David Marsh (Oxford) The axiverse extended: Vacuum destabilization and early Dark Energy.
Fri 25 Feb Eva Sagi (Racah Institute of Physics, Jerusalem) Gravitational waves in the TeVeS theory of gravity.
Fri 4 Mar *** ROOM CHANGE : C14 Baojiu Li (Cambridge) Cosmological implications of modified gravity theories.
Fri 11 Mar Eugene Lim (Cambridge) Angel Dust: Engineering Cold Dark Matter with pressure.
Fri 18 Mar    
Fri 25 Mar Chris Gordon (Oxford) Constraining non-Gaussianity using Cluster Number Counts.

 

 Autumn 2010

Fri 1 Oct Alejandro Satz (Buenos Aires) Quantum Gravity renormalisation flow, nonlocalities, and Newtonian potential
Fri 8 Oct - -
Fri 15 Oct Rodolfo Russo (Queen Mary) From D-branes to curved space
Thu 21 Oct 2pm Peter Dunsby (Capetown) How close can an Inhomogeneous Universe mimic the Concordance Model?
Fri 22 Oct Konstantinos Dimopoulos (Lancaster) Contribution of Cosmic Vector Fields to the generation of the Curvature Perturbation in the Universe.
Fri 29 Oct Nemanja Kaloper (UCDavis) Large Field Inflation, Ignobly
Fri 5 Nov    
Fri 12 Nov Camille Bonvin (Cambridge) Relativistic effects in full sky gravitational lensing.
Fri 19 Nov Jonathan Butterworth (UCL) Jet substructure as a new search channel at the LHC.
Thu 25 Nov 11am Minas Tsoukalas (Athens) Anisotropic Scalings and Breaking of Diffeomorphism Invariance.
Fri 3 Dec Carlo Contaldi (Imperial) Spider : Ballooning for B-modes of the CMB

 

Summer 2010

Thu 1 Apr - -
Fri 23 Apr Claus Kiefer (Koeln) Cancelled due to volcanic activity. Rescheduled for Oct 8
Fri 30 Apr - -
Fri 7 May Tom Shanks (Durham) Problems for the standard cosmology
Fri 14 May Fergus Simpson (Royal Observatory, Edinburgh) Unmodified gravity
Fri 21 May Paul McFadden (Amsterdam) Holography for Cosmology
Fri 28 May Joe Zuntz (Oxford) What vector field gravity tells us about Dark Matter
Fri 4 Jun Shaun Thomas (UCL) The new MegaZ : Photometric galaxy clustering, neutrino masses and signs of new physics.
Fri 11 Jun Adam Christopherson (Queen Mary) New phenomena at second order in cosmological perturbation theory.
Tue 15 Jun Anders Tranberg (Oulu) New developements in Cold Electroweak Baryogenesis

 

Spring 2010

Fri 15 Jan B13 Tim Clifton (Oxford) The optical properties of inhomogeneous space-times before and after averaging
Mon 18 Jan 12:30 C04 David Sicilia (Dartmouth) lifetime and stability of oscillons
Fri 22 Jan B13 Phil Allport (Liverpool) LHC Experiments, Status and Plans
Fri 29 Jan B13 Tom Shanks (Durham) Problems for the standard cosmology
Fri 5 Feb B13 Will Percival (Portsmouth) Cosmological constraints from galaxy clustering
Fri 12 Feb B13 Arman Shafieloo (Oxford) Reconstructing Dark Energy
Fri 19 Feb B13 Kazuya Koyama (Portsmouth) Large Primordial Non-Gaussianity from early Universe
Fri 26 Feb B13 Dimitri Skliros (Sussex) TBA
Fri 5 Mar B13 Ray Rivers (Imperial) Cosmology meets Condensed Matter
Fri 12 Mar B13    
Fri 19 Mar B13 Steve King (Southampton) TBA
Fri 26 Mar B13 Babiker Hassanain (Oxford) TBA

 

Autumn 2009

Fri 25 Sep A113 Harvey Reall (DAMTP) Algebraic classification of the Weyl tensor in higher dimensions
Fri 9 Oct A103 Carlos Nunez (Swansea) Aspects of Gauge-Strings Duality
Fri 16 Oct A103 Elise Jennings (Durham) Simulating quintessence - moving closer to reality
Fri 23 Oct A113 Sirichai Chongchitnan (Oxford) Gravitational lensing by clustering dark energy
Fri 30 Oct A113 Nick Mavromatos (King's) Probing Stringy Uncertainty Relations with High-Energy Cosmic Gamma Rays
Fri 6 Nov C14 James Gray (Oxford) New Potentials in heterotic string theory
Mon 9 Nov 12:30 A113 Costas Scordis (Nottingham) Cosmological tests of gravity I
Fri 13 Nov A113 Pedro Ferreira (Oxford) Testing the dark energy hypothesis
Fri 20 Nov A113 Thomas Sotiriou (DAMTP) Horava-Lifshitz gravity and the scalar degree of freedom
Fri 27 Nov A103 Hooshyar Assadullahi (Portsmouth) Latest progress in the second order cosmological gravitational waves
Thu 10 Dec 13:00 A113 Hume Feldman (Kansas) Flows on 100 Mpc/h scales
Fri 11 Dec A103 Jorge Santos (DAMTP) Instability and new phases of higher-dimensional rotating black holes

 

 Summer 2009

Thu 23 Apr Christos Charmousis (Orsay) Cosmology of conical braneworlds
Thu 30 Apr (C12, 4pm) Nemanja Kaloper (UC-Davis) COLLOQUIUM: "Out of darkness: the quest for Lambda"
Fri 8 May (Room A113) Joao Magueijo (Imperial) Alternatives to inflationary fluctuations
Fri 15 May Antony Lewis (Cambridge) Cosmological observables after recombination
Fri 22 May Michael Duff (Imperial) Black holes, qubits and octonions
Fri 29 May Kirill Krasnov (Nottingham) Gravity theories with two propagating degrees of freedom
Mon 1 Jun (1pm) Shuntaro Mizuno (Nottingham) Non-Gaussianity in DBI inflation model
Fri 5 Jun Ruth Gregory (Durham) Braneworld black holes
Fri 12 Jun Gustavo Niz (Nottingham) Strong coupling in Horava gravity
Fri 19 Jun Oscar Dias (Cambridge) Black Holes as Lumps of Fluid

 

 Spring 2009

Fri 16 Jan Fabio Silva (Portsmouth) Ghost hunting in asymmetric 5d brane gravity
Fri 23 Jan Mairi Sakellariadou (King's) Lattice Refinement in Loop Quantum Cosmology
Fri 30 Jan David Mulryne (Cambridge) Diffusing non-local cosmology
Mon 2 Feb (1pm) Georg Robbers (Heidelberg) Structure formation in coupled dark energy models
Fri 6 Feb Dan Waldram (Imperial) Consistent flux compactifications in AdS
Wed 11 Feb (3.30pm, Room A113) Michael Wiltshire (Imperial) COLLOQUIUM: Metamaterials - for superlenses and invisibility cloaks from DC to optics
Fri 13 Feb Amihay Hanany (Imperial) Brane Tilings and M2 Branes
Wed 25 Feb (3.30pm, Room B13) Brian Foster (Oxford) COLLOQUIUM: The International Linear Collider Project - why it is the next step for particle physics
Fri 27 Feb Antonios Papazoglou (Portsmouth) Codimension-2 brane inflation
Mon 2 Mar (1pm) Christian Byrnes (Heidelberg) Large non-Gaussianity from slow-roll inflation
Fri 6 Mar Robert Crittenden (Portsmouth) Searching for non-Gaussianity: going beyond f_NL
Thu 12 Mar Dan Tovey (Sheffield) Dark Matter searches at the LHC
Fri 20 Mar Hiranya Peiris (Cambridge) Polarization tests of large scale CMB temperature anomalies - a last stand before Planck

 

 Autumn 2008

Tue 9 Sep Osamu Seto (UAM-Spain) Sneutrino dark matter model with a singlet higgs
Fri 26 Sep Jean Alexandre (King's) Non-perturbative conformal invariance and String Cosmology
Fri 3 Oct Kate Marvel (DAMTP) Tunneling with Negative Tension
Fri 10 Oct (room A103) Bill Spence (QMW) String inspired progress in perturbative gauge theory
Fri 17 Oct (room A103) Jerry Griffiths (Loughborough) Questions and misunderstandings in the interpretation of basic solutions of Einstein's equations
Fri 24 Oct (room C14) Sugumi Kanno (Durham) Anisotropic Inflation from Vector Impurity
Thu 30 Oct (12pm, room C14) Serena Fagnocchi (Bologna) Acoustic Black Holes and the correlations of Hawking radiation
Mon 3 Nov (4pm) Christopher Eling (Hebrew University) Hydrodynamics of spacetime and vacuum viscosity
Fri 7 Nov (11:30am) Amanda Weltman (DAMTP) Chameleon searches in the laboratory
Fri 14 Nov Ed Hinds (Imperial) The electron EDM experiment
Fri 21 Nov James Lucietti (Durham) Extremal Black Holes
Fri 28 Nov (room C14) Stephan Huber (Sussex) Real time history of the electroweak phase transition
Fri 5 Dec David Tong (DAMTP) Quantum Dynamics of Non-Abelian Vortices

 

Summer 2008

Thu 17 Apr (11am) Sabino Matarrese (Padova) Cosmological non-Gaussianity
Fri 25 Apr Steven Gratton (Cambridge) The Path Integral for Volume-Weighted Eternal Inflation
Fri 2 May (11.30am) Andrew Tolley (Perimeter) Cascading Gravity
Fri 9 May Lisa Hall (Sheffield) Are there any consistent models of modified gravity?
Fri 16 May Martin Kunz (Sussex) Constraining averaged cosmologies
Tue 20 May room C12 David Wiltshire (Canterbury, NZ) Gravitational energy as dark energy: towards concordance cosmology without Lambda
Fri 23 May M&P:room C14 David Skinner (Oxford) Twistors and Scattering Amplitudes
Fri 30 May Robin Zegers (Durham) Towards higher codimension braneworlds
Thu 5 Jun (2pm) Jiri Podolsky (Prague) No higher-dimensional C-metric in the Robinson-Trautman family
Fri 6 Jun Malcolm Perry (Cambridge) Duality Symmetries for GR and M-theory reduced to two dimensions
Fri 13 Jun Andrew Liddle (Sussex) Bayesian Cosmology

 

 Spring 2008

Fri 11 Jan Malcolm Fairbairn (King's) WIMP burners
Fri 18 Jan Mark Hindmarsh (Sussex) Is the Universe tied up with cosmic string?
Fri 25 Jan M&P: room A1 Simon Ross (Durham) Braneworld black holes for negative brane cosmological constant
Fri 1 Feb Subir Sarkar (Oxford) Seeing the high energy universe
Fri 8 Feb M&P: room A1 Jim Hinton (Leeds) Astrophysics and Astroparticle Physics with TeV photons
Fri 15 Feb Nelson Nunes (Cambridge) Variation of fundamental parameters: implications for BBN and dark energy
Fri 22 Feb M&P: room A1 Stephen West (Oxford) Heavy dark matter through the higgs portal
Fri 29 Feb M&P: room A1 Silvia Pascoli (Durham) Testing Dark Matter with neutrino detectors
Fri 7 Mar Ivonne Zavala (Durham) Spinflation
Fri 14 Mar Yuri Shtanov (Kiev) Modified gravity on the brane and in BF theory

 

 Autumn 2007

Fri 28 Sep Joseph Conlon (DAMTP) High-scale inflation with low-scale supersymmetry breaking
Fri 5 Oct Jorma Louko (Nottingham) Heavy ion collisions in lineland
Fri 12 Oct Carsten Van de Bruck (Sheffield) New interactions in the dark sector
Fri 19 Oct Douglas Shaw (QMW) Chameleon fields: three ways to search for dark energy in the laboratory
Fri 26 Oct Cliff Burgess (McMaster/CERN) String/brane cosmology
Fri 2 Nov Daniel Wesley (DAMTP) Primordial black holes in the dark ages
Fri 9 Nov Alon Faraggi (Liverpool) Novel symmetries in string vacua
Mon 12 Nov Gianluca Calcagni (Sussex) Stability of multifield cosmology
Fri 16 Nov Carlos Hidalgo (QMW) The probability of PBH formation revisited
Fri 23 Nov Eran Palti (Oxford) Non-geometric flux compactifications
Fri 30 Nov Ian Moss (Newcastle) The theory with two branes
Wed 5 Dec C27 Graham Shore (Swansea) Superluminal light? Causality and microcausality in curved spacetime
Fri 7 Dec Atsushi Higuchi (York) Classical and Quantum Radiation Reaction in Quantum Electrodynamics
Fri 14 Dec Winston Fairbairn (Nottingham) Particles and strings in quantum gravity

 

Summer 2007

Fri 27 Apr Benjamin Allanach (Cambridge) Global SUSY Fits, Dark Matter and the LHC
Tue 1 May Nick Manton (Cambridge) Skyrmions and nuclei
Fri 4 May Mukund Rangamani (Durham) TBA
Fri 11 May Thomas Mohaupt (Liverpool) Supersymmetric Black Holes in String Theory
Fri 18 May Mark Hindmarsh (Sussex) Cosmic Strings and the Microwave Background
Fri 25 May C27 Elizabeth Winstanley (Sheffield) Probing quantum gravity effects with neutrino telescopes (arxiv: 0705.1897 [astro-ph])
Fri 1 Jun Horace Stoica (Imperial) Numerical experiments with p F- and q D-strings: the formation of (p, q) bound states
Fri 8 Jun Karim Malik (Queen Mary) Recent Developments in Second Order Perturbation Theory
Fri 15 Jun 13:30 Thomas Hertog (Orsay) A Holographic Big Bang

 

 Spring 2007

Mon 15 Jan Steen Hannestad (Aarhus) Neutrino cosmology and the robustness of cosmological parameter estimation
Wed 17 Jan Neil Lambert (King's) M-theory Geometry of Quantum Open Strings
Fri 26 Jan Ruth Williams (Cambridge) Running Newton's constant G
Fri 2 Feb Gustavo Niz (Nottingham) An M-theory model of a big crunch/big bang transition (hep-th/0601007)
Fri 9 Feb Jeff Forshaw (Manchester) Higgs physics at the LHC
Fri 16 Feb Antonio Padilla (Nottingham) Haunted by DGP gravity (hep-th/0610093)
Fri 23 Feb Steve Abel (Durham) SUSY breaking by a metastable ground state: Why the early Universe preferred the non-supersymmetric vacuum (hep-th/0610334)
Fri 2 Mar Ruth Durrer (Geneva) The physics of the cosmic microwave background
Fri 9 Mar National Science and Engineering Week Cosmology: Understanding our Universe from galaxies to particles
Fri 16 Mar Graham Ross (Oxford) Supernova seismology, supernova neutrinos and neutrino masses
Wed 21 Mar (room C27) Catherine Meusburger (Perimeter) A unified approach to 3d gravity: the cosmological constant as a deformation parameter
Thu 22 Mar UK Cosmology meeting  
Fri 23 Mar 11:00 Christos Charmousis (Orsay) Rotating spacetimes with a cosmological constant

 

Autumn 2006

Fri 15 Sep Takahiro Tanaka (Kyoto) Black hole escape from branes -- (hep-th/0506145)
Fri 29 Sep Anne Green (Nottingham) Dark matter: from the early Universe to the Milky Way -- (astro-ph/0508553)
Fri 6 Oct Gary Gibbons (Damtp) Getting the Measure of Inflation -- (hep-th/0609095)
Fri 13 Oct Marcus Berg (Potsdam) Fluctuation Spectra in Non-AdS/Non-CFT -- (hep-th/0507285)
Fri 20 Oct Andre Lukas (Oxford) M-theory on the orbifold C^2/Z_N and G_2 compactifications -- (hep-th/0602055)
Fri 27 Oct Hari Kunduri (Nottingham) Higher Dimensional Black Holes: Recent Progress -- (hep-th/0606076) and (hep-th/0601156)
Fri 3 Nov Bobby Acharya (Trieste) The LHC and Hierarchies in String Theory -- (hep-th/0601156)
Fri 3 Nov Bobby Acharya (Trieste) The LHC and Hierarchies in String Theory -- (hep-th/0606262)
Fri 10 Nov John Barrett (Nottingham) Geometry of the standard model of particle physics -- (hep-th/0608221)
Fri 17 Nov Antonio De Felice (Sussex) Generalized Modified Gravity Models: ghosts and dynamical bounds -- (astro-ph/0410031)
Fri 24 Nov Richard Battye (Manchester) Constraints on Supersymmetric Hybrid Inflation Models -- (astro-ph/0607339)
Fri 1 Dec Anthony Brookfield (Sheffield) Viability of f(R) Theories with Additional Powers of Curvature -- (hep-th/0608015)
Wed 6 Dec Room C27 Fotini Markopoulou (Perimeter)  
Thu 1 Jan 01:00 Room A103 Keith Copsey (Santa Barbara) Bubbles Unbound: Bubbles of Nothing Without Kaluza-Klein-- (hep-th/0610058)
Fri 8 Dec George Ellis (Cape Town) Issues in the Philosophy of Cosmology -- (astro-ph/0602280)
Wed 13 Dec C12 -- Note 3pm
Physics and Astronomy
Colloquium		 Sean Carroll (Caltech) Dark Energy, or Worse?
Fri 15 Dec Pierre Martinetti (Marseille) Is life a thermal horizon? -- (gr-qc/0212074 and gr-qc/0401116)

 

 Summer 2006

Fri 28 Apr James Gray (Paris) Geometry, the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model and searching for evidence of new physics -- ( hep-th/0511062)
Fri 5 May Ronald Reid-Edwards (QMUL) Twisted tori, flux compactifications and duality -- ( hep-th/0603094)
Fri 12 May Phil Harris (Sussex) Testing Time Reversal: The search for the neutron electric-dipole moment -- ( hep-ex/0602020) or a slightly modified version
Fri 19 May Kei-ichi Maeda (Waseda) Stationary Spacetime with Intersecting Branes in M/ superstring theory-- ( hep-th/0510082)
Fri 26 May Nick Dorey (Cambridge) Spin Chains, Integrability and the AdS/CFT Correspondence --( hep-th/0604175, hep-th/0604175, and hep-th/0601194 )
Fri 2 Jun Thomas Schucker (Marseille) Noncommutative geometry and the standard model -- ( hep-th/0310145) is a contribution to the Encyclopedia of Mathematical Physics while hep-th/0503190) is more technical
Fri 9 Jun Bernard Kay (York) The Matter-Gravity Entanglement Hypothesis -- ( hep-th/9810077)
Fri 16 Jun Kirill Krasnov (Nottingham)

 

 Spring 2006

Fri 13 Jan David Mulryne (QMUL) A graceful entrance to inflation. (astro-ph/0502589)
Fri 20 Jan Paul McFadden (Damtp) Solution of a Braneworld Big Crunch/Big Bang Cosmology (hep-th/0512123)
Fri 27 Jan James Ryan (Damtp) Matter coupled to quantum gravity: a group field theory formulation. (gr-qc/0506067)
Fri 3 Feb Bartjan van Tent (Damtp) Large non-Gaussianty from inflation. (astro-ph/050670)
Fri 10 Feb Christine Davies (Glasgow) Getting to grips with the strong force (hep-lat/0509046)
Fri 17 Feb Paul Sutcliffe (Kent) Aspects of Skyrmions. (hep-th0507279)
Fri 24 Feb Veronika Hubeny (Durham) Probing bulk spacetime via CFT correlators. (hep-th/051004)
Fri 3 Mar Kelly Stelle (Imperial) Randall-Sundrum in IIB: warp factors versus supersymmetry. (hep-th/0007120 and hep-th/0011167)
Fri 10 Mar Beatriz de Carlos (Sussex) Uplifting D-terms in effective supergravities from strings (hep-th/0601190)
Fri 17 Mar Jerry Griffiths (Loughborough) Exact solutions for accelerating and rotating black holes. (gr-qc/0511122)
Fri 24 Mar Chris Fewster (York) Quantum Energy Inequalities and local covariance. (gr-qc/0510079)

 

Autumn 2005

Wed 5 Oct -- B18 Simon Ross (Durham) Smooth geometries in the D1-D5 system
Fri 7 Oct Special seminar -- C5 Robert Oeckl (Morelia, Mexico) Making quantum mechanics background free: The general boundary formulation
Wed 12 Oct -- B18 Fernando Quevedo (Damtp) Inflation and String theory
Wed 19 Oct -- C12 Ian Moss (Newcastle) Warm Inflation
Wed 26 Oct -- C12 Arttu Rajantie (Imperial) Heavy cosmic strings from first order phase transitions
Wed 2 Nov -- C12 at 3pm David Tong (Damtp) How to mimic a cosmic superstring
Wed 9 Nov -- C12 Fay Dowker (Imperial) An analogue of Bell's inequality in Quantum measure theory
Fri 11 Nov Special seminar -- -- C5 German Izquierdo (Barcelona) Relic gravitational waves in the expanding universe
Mon 14 Nov Special seminar -- -- C5 Suresh K. Maran (Pittsburgh) New developments in the Barrett-Crane theory.
Wed 16 Nov -- C12 David Wands (Portsmouth) Primordial perturbations from inflation
Fri 18 Nov Special seminar -- C5 at 4.15pm Paul Kleban (Maine ) Crossing Probabilities and Modular Forms (Joint Mathematical Physics/Number Theory seminar)
Wed 23 Nov -- B23 Pedro Ferreira (Oxford) The cosmology of MOND
Wed 30 Nov -- B18 Jerome Gauntlett (Imperial) Supersymmetric AdS solutions and AdS/CFT
Wed 7 Dec -- B18 Johannes Brunnemann (Potsdam, MPI) Discrete Geometry from Loop Quantum Gravity?

 

Post-Doc Lecture Series Archive

Fri 8 Dec 2023 Oliver Gould Effective field theory
Wed 29 Nov 2023 Oliver Gould Effective field theory
Wed 15 Nov 2023 Oliver Gould Effective field theory
Tue 7 Nov 2023 Oliver Gould Effective field theory
Tue 31 Oct 2023 Oliver Gould Effective field theory
Wed 25 Oct 2023 Oliver Gould Effective field theory
Wed 27 Jun 2018 Daniela Saadeh Python Programming Workshop
Tue 26 Jun 2018 Daniela Saadeh Python Programming Workshop
Wed 25 Oct 2017 Silvia Nagy Asymptotic symmetry in gravity and gauge theory
Mon 25 Sep 2017 Silvia Nagy Asymptotic symmetry in gravity and gauge theory
Tue 27 Jun 2017 Florian Niedermann Technical naturalness in models with two extra dimension
Thu 15 Jun 2017 Florian Niedermann Technical naturalness in models with two extra dimension
Tue 6 Jun 2017 Florian Niedermann Technical naturalness in models with two extra dimension
Tue 30 May 2017 Florian Niedermann Technical naturalness in models with two extra dimension
Tue 23 May 2017 Florian Niedermann Technical naturalness in models with two extra dimension
Thu 18 May 2017 Florian Niedermann Technical naturalness in models with two extra dimension
Tue 9 May 2017 Florian Niedermann Technical naturalness in models with two extra dimension
Thu 5 May 2016 Peter Millington The Effective action and its applications
Thu 28 Apr 2016 Peter Millington The Effective action and its applications
Tue 26 Apr 2016 Peter Millington The Effective action and its applications
Thu 21 Apr 2016 Peter Millington The Effective action and its applications
Tue 19 Apr 2016 Peter Millington The Effective action and its applications
Thu 31 Mar 2016 Peter Millington The Effective action and its applications
Thu 14 May 2015 Jonathan Pearson Relativistic Materials
Tue 12 May 2015 Jonathan Pearson Relativistic Materials
Thu 7 May 2015 Jonathan Pearson Relativistic Materials
Tue 5 May 2015 Jonathan Pearson Relativistic Materials
Thu 30 Apr 2015 Jonathan Pearson Relativistic Materials
Tue 28 Apr 2015 Jonathan Pearson Relativistic Materials
Wed 27 Nov 2013 Clare Burrage Scalar field theories with screening mechanisms
Thu 21 Nov 2013 Clare Burrage Scalar field theories with screening mechanisms
Thu 14 Nov 2013 Clare Burrage Scalar field theories with screening mechanisms
Thu 7 Nov 2013 Clare Burrage Scalar field theories with screening mechanisms
Thu 20 Jun 2013 Ippocratis Saltas Cosmology with running couplings
Thu 6 Jun 2013 Ippocratis Saltas Cosmology with running couplings
Thu 30 May 2013 Ippocratis Saltas Cosmology with running couplings
Thu 23 May 2013 Ippocratis Saltas Cosmology with running couplings
Tue 21 May 2013 Ippocratis Saltas Cosmology with running couplings
Thu 9 May 2013 Ippocratis Saltas Cosmology with running couplings
Mon 25 Jun 2012 Ippocratis Saltas Cosmology with running couplings

 

 

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