Seminars
Seminars Spring 2024
Seminars are organised by Swagat Saurav Mishra. Unless stated otherwise, seminars take place at 14.00 on Friday and are held (or for remote speakers, are streamed) in CAPT A113.
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
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| 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 |
| 3pm Thu 25 Apr |
Tiago Gonçalves (Lisbon University) |
(Mo)defying Gravity |
| Fri 3 May |
Andrew Gow (ICG, Portsmouth) |
Primordial black holes and non-Gaussianity |
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3pm Thu 9 May
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Anna Negro (Leiden University) |
Consequences of UV renormalization for primordial observables |
| Fri 10 May |
Marco Scalisi (Max Planck, Munich) |
Swampland |
| Fri 17 May |
Jiajie Mei (Durham University) |
Bootstrapping cosmological correlators |
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 (Summer 2024) we have the following speakers:
- 11 Jan: Kieran Wood
- 25 Jan: Matthew Gorton
- 8 Feb: Sean Gregory
- 22 Feb: Trevor Cheung
- 7 March: Lauren Gaughan
- 21 March: Silvia Schiattarella
- 23 May: Lauren Gaughan
- 6 June: Sergio Sevillano Muñoz
- 20 June: Bradley March
Student journal club is currently run by Lauren Gaughan.
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 (Spring 2024) we have the following speakers:
- 1 Feb: Benjamin Muntz
- 15 Feb: Bradley March
- 29 Feb: Matthew Gorton
- 14 Mar: Oliver Gould
- 28 Mar: Kieran Wood
- 2 May: Robert Smith
- 16 May: Swagat Mishra
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.