Seminars
Seminars Autumn 2024
Seminars are organised by Swagat Saurav Mishra. Unless stated otherwise, seminars take place at 13.00 on Tuesday and are held (or for remote speakers, are streamed) in CAPT in room A113 on the ground floor.
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
|---|
| 1pm Tue 17 Sep |
Andreas Ekstedt (Uppsala University, Sweden) |
From EFTs to real-time dynamics and back again |
| 3pm Thu 19 Sep |
Xavier Pritchard (University of Sussex) |
Early universe degrees of freedom and primordial black holes |
| 1pm Tue 24 Sep |
Jeremy Wachter (Wenworth Institute of Technology, USA) |
Numerical studies of gravitational self-evolution of cosmic string loops |
| 3pm Thu 26 Sep |
Christian Kading (Atominstitut, Vienna University of Technology, Austria) |
New paths in the search for light scalar fields |
| 1pm Tue 1 Oct |
Dibya Chakraborty (Indian Institute of Technology, Madras) |
Inflationary Models in String Theory |
| 1pm Tue 8 Oct |
Theo Anton (Queen Mary University London) |
Generalised tests of gravity in cosmology |
| 3pm Thu 10 Oct |
Kieran Wood (University of Nottingham) |
Multi-metric gravity and Gregory-Leflamme instability |
| 1pm Tue 15 Oct |
Eemeli Tomberg (Lancaster University) |
Primordial black holes and stochastic inflation |
| 1pm Tue 22 Oct |
Ayngaran Thavanesan (University of Cambridge) |
To dS/CFT and Back Through Cauchy Slice Holography |
| 1pm Tue 29 Oct |
Santiago Agui Salcedo (University of Cambridge) |
The Open Effective Field Theory of Inflation |
| 1pm Tue 5 Nov |
Yuyu Mo (University of Edinburgh) |
From On-shell amplitude in AdS to Cosmological correlators |
| 1pm Tue 12 Nov |
Alex Jenkins (University College London) |
Cold-atom analogues for vacuum decay |
| 1pm Tue 19 Nov |
Bjoern Friedrich (University of Heidelberg) |
End-of-the-world Branes and Inflationary Preditions for Rocky and Swampy Landscapes |
| 3pm Thu 21 Nov |
Siyao Li (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan and Institute for Basic Science, Korea) |
How much is the lifetime of an oscillon affected by coupling to another field? |
| 1pm Tue 26 Nov |
Tamara Evstafyeva (University of Cambridge) |
Gravitational-wave data analysis with numerical relativity simulations of boson star mergers |
| 1pm Tue 3 Dec |
Emma Albertini (Imperial College London) |
Gravity, scattering amplitudes |
| 1pm Tue 10 Dec |
Alexander Bruno (Imperial College London) |
Higgs Mechanism in Plebanski Gravity |
Student Journal Club
The student journal club is an informal discussion specifically for students, but postdocs are also welcome to come. It is currently held every other Thursday at 15:00 Online, alternating with the all member's Journal Club.
This term (Autumn 2024) we have the following sessions:
- 26 Sep: Christian Kading
- 10 Oct: Kieran Wood
- 24 Oct
- 7 Nov
- 21 Nov: Siyao Li
- 5 Dec
Student journal club is currently run by Trevor Cheung, Benjamin Muntz and Farbod Rassouli.
Journal Club
Our journal club is an informal discussion for all members of the group, who are encouraged to bring along any interesting papers they have found. We use Benty-Fields as our online platform for suggesting and voting on papers, on which see 'Particle Cosmology - general journal club'. The journal club is currently held in CAPT A113 every other Thursday at 15:00.
This term (Autumn 2024) we have the following sessions:
- 19 Sep: Xavier Pritchard
- 3 Oct: Peter Du
- 17 Oct: Benty-Fields
- 31 Oct: Benty-Fields
- 14 Nov: Benty-Fields
- 28 Nov: Benty-Fields
- 12 Dec: Benty-Fields
Journal club is currently run by Oliver Gould.
Upcoming Post-Doc Lectures
There are no upcoming Post-Doc lectures currently arranged.
Previous archives of seminars, journal clubs, etc. can be found here.