Particle/Astrophysics Seminars, Spring 2008

Usual Time and Place » Tuesdays 11:30pm-12:30pm / the Miller Room, Rockefeller 221 (except where otherwise noted).

Coordinator: Francesc Ferrer, Irit Maor
Date Speaker Title Host
January 15 4:30PM Sergei Dubovsky
Harvard and Moscow
The Accelerating Universe: Landscape or Modified Gravity? Glenn Starkman
January 18 Fri 1:00PM Simeon Hellerman
Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
Cosmological Unification of String Theories Glenn Starkman
January 29
February 5 Constantinos Skordis
Perimeter Institute
Demystifying the Large-Scale Structure and Evolution of the Cosmos Glenn Starkman
February 12 4:30PMNiayesh Afshordi
Perimeter Institute
Physics Beyond the Horizon Glenn Starkman
February 15 Fri 12:30PMCarlo Contaldi
Imperial College
Glenn Starkman
February 19 Alexander Vikman
NYU
k-Essence: superluminal propagation, causality and emergent geometry Glenn Starkman
February 26 Ofer Lahav
University College London
Observing Dark Energy with the Next Generation of Galaxy Surveys Irit Maor
February 28 Thu 11:30AM Nemanja Kaloper
UC Davis
Challenging the Cosmological Constant Glenn Starkman
March 4
March 11
No seminar -- spring break
March 18 12:00PMGlennys Farrar
New York University
UHECR Phenomenology Corbin Covault
March 25
April 1
April 8 Tyce DeYoung
Penn State
Astrophysics and Particle Physics with IceCube Corbin Covault
April 15
April 22 James Beatty
Ohio State
Corbin Covault
April 29
May 6 Roberto Trotta
Oxford
Probing dark energy with cosmology Michelson Postdoctoral Prize lecturer