Category Archives: Research

Durham UK Cosmo meeting

By Ian | Published: September 8, 2010

Durham University, and in particular the Institute for Particle Physics Phenomenology hosted the annual two-day UK Cosmology meeting this year. There were lots of very interesting talks, and I hope to give a flavour of some of the issues that were mentioned over the course of the meeting. The list of participants and the programme [...]

Also posted in Conferences and Meetings | Tagged 3-D film, Cosmic Origins, Cosmology, Durham, meeting, Research, Science, talks, twitter, UK Cosmo | Leave a comment

ArXiv app for Android

By Ian | Published: August 19, 2010

I don’t regularly look up new papers on my phone, preferring the ease of checking them on my desktop at work. However when travelling or attending a conference it can be very handy to be able to quickly pull up some paper you half remember in the middle of a conversation. As an Android user [...]

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Thesis now online

By Ian | Published: July 6, 2010

I passed my viva examination a few months ago, and after very helpful suggestions from my two examiners I submitted the final version of my PhD thesis to the QMUL authorities a month ago. The paperwork all went through so I have now completely finished my doctoral training. All that remains to be done is [...]

Also posted in Cosmology, arXiv | Tagged arXiv, Cosmology, Inflation, phd, QMUL, thesis | Leave a comment

Relativity and Cosmology Seminar

By Ian | Published: March 25, 2010

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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Next UK Cosmo meeting

By Ian | Published: February 15, 2010

The next UK Cosmology meeting is taking place in Lancaster on the 24th February. These meetings provide an opportunity to find out what other cosmologists around the country are doing and to establish and cement working relationships. The deadline for registering your interest in attending or giving a talk is tomorrow the 16th. Funding is [...]