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I am a theoretical cosmologist at Queen Mary, University of London. My work focuses on the early universe and in particular inflationary models.
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Recent Papers- Constraining Inflationary Scenarios with Braneworld Models and Second Order Cosmological Perturbations
- An update on single field models of inflation in light of WMAP7
- Numerical calculation of second order perturbations
- Gravitational Wave Constraints on Multi-Brane Inflation
- Gravitational Wave Constraints on DBI Inflation
My Twitter posts
- My brief review of the #UkCosmo meeting in Durham over the last few days http://ow.ly/2Bixd about 8 hours ago from HootSuite
- RT @rosscloney: Oh why didn't I become a socially useful investment banker instead of going into the greedy world of academic sci? #scivote about 16 hours ago from HootSuite
- Interesting that Cable explicitly mentions incr in sci funding in US,Germany,China. Telling us where to go? http://bit.ly/bF3o0Y #scipolicy about 16 hours ago from HootSuite
- RT @AlexConnor: Transcript of Cable's speech http://bit.ly/bF3o0Y #scipolicy about 16 hours ago from HootSuite
- Day 2 of #UkCosmo just started. Not looking forward to arriving in London later in middle of tube strike. 09:00:44 AM September 07, 2010 from Twitter for Android
Category Archives: Research
Post talk and pre trip
My talk in Portsmouth was on Tuesday of last week, and with the exception of a bit of trouble with the train on the way down, it seemed to go well enough. I didn’t run wildly over time or commit any other glaring mistakes, but did get a bit of a grilling in the question [...]
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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 [...]
The End of Cosmology
Here in Queen Mary, we hold a discussion group every Wednesday during term time. The paper we are discussing this afternoon is a recent essay by Lawrence Krauss and Robert Scherrer, which has been causing a bit of a stir in cosmology circles, both in the blogosphere and the real world. The essay won 5th [...]
Reed Elsevier gives up its guns
Reed Elsevier, which publishes many scientific journals and magazines, has just announced that they are going to get rid of their lucrative side-business of running major armaments fairs. Earlier this year there was a lot of criticism of the company for this practice, from shareholders, rival journals and even the editors of the Lancet, one [...]
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