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Relativity and Cosmology Seminar

Yesterday I gave my first seminar as a postdoc in the regular Relativity and Cosmology series at QMUL. People seemed to engage with the material and there were quite a few questions at the end. The slides for the talk are available as a pdf or through the embedded widget below. My style for talks [...]
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New QMUL Cosmology Wiki

The Cosmology and Relativity Group in Queen Mary (where I work) have recently opened a new wiki to replace the old group pages which were rarely updated. Only group members are able to add and edit content but hopefully there is some useful information for anyone interested in the group.
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First talk imminent

So it turns out that I am going to give a talk at UK Cosmo next week. It’s only supposed to be 18 minutes long, which you might imagine wouldn’t be that difficult to put together, but as you can tell from the lack of posts here recently, I’ve been having some problems. The talk [...]
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Multiverses and Super-Turtles

Last night’s talks were really interesting and it was good to get three different opinions being discussed in a (semi-)public setting. Usually these sort of lectures are one-sided in their opinions, which tends to hide the fact that the hot topics are also the most controversial. So as I mentioned earlier there were three speakers, [...]
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Universe or Multiverse?

On Thursday evening I am going to the launch of this book, edited by Professor Bernard Carr from QMUL, called “Universe or Multiverse?”. It is a collection of articles about the idea of a multiverse and the prospects (if any) or ever experimentally verifying it. On the night of the launch there are going to [...]
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