Theoretical Cosmology meetings
To actively encourage the field of theoretical cosmology and to set an informal stage for the exchange of ideas, the Dutch theoretical cosmology community organizes Friday afternoon meetings approximately 6 times a year — usually on the first Friday of the month. The meetings typically start in the afternoon with a main speaker, followed by a short break to continue with another seminar or journal club discussion on some topic of current interest. We end the afternoon with drinks. The supporting institutes in Leiden, Amsterdam, Groningen, Utrecht where recently joined by the strings and cosmology group in Leuven and take turns in hosting the event.
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NIKHEF Spring 2016
05/02/2016 @ 14:00 - 17:30
Note: since a significant number of PhD students are attending the DRSTP school, and because a program meeting had to be scheduled, the sound bite session is postponed until the next THC meeting
14:00-15:00 in H331 (NIKHEF):
Speaker: Robert Brandenberger (McGill)
Title: Searching for Cosmic Strings in New Observational Windows
Cosmic strings are predicted in a large class of particle physics
models beyond the Standard Model. In models which admit cosmic
string solutions, strings will form in the early universe and will
persist to the present time. I will discuss searches for strings
in cosmic microwave temperature and polarization maps, in
large-scale structure surveys, and in 21cm experiments. I
will also mention some roles which cosmic string loops could
have in globular cluster and supermassive black hole formation.
15:30-16:30 in H331 (NIKHEF):
Speaker: Gianluca Inverso (NIKHEF)
Title: Journal club on 1511.07841 (Single-step de Sitter vacua from non-perturbative effects with matter)
Drinks