Spring Semester - 2004

January

23rd
ISCAP Seminar Room, Pupin 908, 2:00pm

• Koenraad Schalm (Columbia)
• Decoupling in an expanding universe: how boundary RG-flow parametrizes new physics in the CMB

February

6th
ISCAP Seminar Room, Pupin 908, 2:00pm

• Matt Martin (Carnegie Mellon)
• de Sitter Vacua and Inflaton Loop Enhancements

13th
ISCAP Seminar Room, Pupin 908, 2:00pm

• Justin Khoury (Columbia)
• Tuning Locked Inflation

20th
ISCAP Seminar Room, Pupin 908, 2:00pm

• Zoltan Haiman (Columbia)
• Cosmology with Galaxy Clusters

27th
ISCAP Seminar Room, Pupin 908, 2:00pm

• Yang-Hui He (UPenn)
• Chaotic Duality in String Theory

March

5th
No seminar this week

12th
ISCAP Seminar Room, Pupin 908, 2:00pm

• Robert McNees (U. Michigan)
• Holography, Diffeomorphisms, and Scaling Violations in the CMB

19th
ISCAP Seminar Room, Pupin 908, 2:00pm

• Eugene Lim (Chicago)
• Can we ever see transplanckian imprints on the CMB?

April

2nd
ISCAP Seminar Room, Pupin 908, 2:00pm

• Arlin Crotts (Columbia)
• ALPACA: Columbia's new optical telescope for cosmological surveys

9th
ISCAP Seminar Room, Pupin 908, 2:00pm

• Philip Candelas
• Arithmetic of Calabi-Yau Manifolds

16th
ISCAP Seminar Room, Pupin 908, 2:00pm

• Steven Furlanetto (Caltech)
• Observing the Reionization Epoch

23rd
ISCAP Seminar Room, Pupin 908, 2:00pm

• Amanda Weltman (Columbia)
• Chameleon Fields: Awaiting Surprises for Tests of Gravity in Space

30th
ISCAP Seminar Room, Pupin 908, 2:00pm

• Amber Miller (Columbia)
• QUIET

May

7th
ISCAP Seminar Room, Pupin 908, 2:00pm

• Samir Mathur (Ohio State)
• What Is Inside A Black Hole?

14th
ISCAP Columbia University, Pupin 329, 11:00am (NOTE LOCATION, TIME)

• Third Northeast String Cosmology Meeting
• Confirmed Speakers: S.S. Gubser, A. Guth, S. Kachru, P.J.E. Peebles and C. Vafa

21st
ISCAP Seminar Room, Pupin 908, 2:00pm

• Joe Silk (Oxford)
• Shedding Light on Dark Matter