Category Archives: Cosmology

UK Cosmology Dates

By Ian | Published: May 30, 2007

The next UK Cosmo meeting has just been announced and will take place in Portsmouth on the 26th of June. The local website has details about how to register to attend or give a talk. There is no confirmed venue yet but keep an eye on the site for more information and travel details. The [...]

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New Dark Matter evidence

By Ian | Published: May 15, 2007

NASA is holding a press conference today in which new evidence for the existence of dark matter will be presented. There will be an audio feed and graphics on the web as soon as the conference starts. A comment at the Angry Physicist’s blog links to the abstract of the upcoming APJ paper which describes [...]

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Multiverses and Super-Turtles

By Ian | Published: May 4, 2007

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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First paper on the arXiv

By Ian | Published: May 3, 2007

[Shameless plug of my own work alert!] So today I finally became a ‘proper’ scientist and saw my name on the listings of the arXiv. Our new paper, Gravitational Wave constraints on DBI inflation, makes life difficult for the usual DBI brane inflation models by specifying some pretty strong limits on their existence, depending on [...]

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Universe or Multiverse?

By Ian | Published: May 2, 2007

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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