Category Archives: Cosmology

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 [...]

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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 [...]

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Cosmo09 roundup

By Ian | Published: September 17, 2009

The Cosmo09 conference took place last week in the picturesque surroundings of CERN with lots of talks, a lot of conversation and not a little French/Swiss beer. Videos of the plenary talks are now available and the slides of every talk (including the parallel sessions) are listed in the conference programme for each session. There [...]

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Cosmo09 conference

By Ian | Published: September 1, 2009

The annual Cosmo conference for all branches of cosmology is taking place next week 7th-11th September in CERN. I will be attending and giving a talk in the inflation session on Thursday afternoon. After last week’s Science Online London 2009 conference which I attended, I have been thinking about how to get fellow cosmologists to [...]

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Numerical Calculation of Second Order Perturbations

By Ian | Published: July 23, 2009

My new paper, written with Karim Malik, has just been released into the wild. We show that it is possible to numerically simulate second order perturbations for a single scalar field with a canonical action. I’ve been working on this for a long time and learned a lot about the mechanics of inflation in the [...]