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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 [...]

Posted in arXiv, Cosmology, Research | Also tagged arXiv, Cosmology, Inflation, numerical, paper, phd, python, Science | Leave a comment

The Big Bang Fair

By Ian | Published: February 6, 2009

The first ever UK Young Scientist and Engineers Fair is taking place in the first week of March. The Big Bang Fair in the QE2 Conference Centre in Westminster will pit hundreds of schoolchildren against each other for the main prizes of UK Young Scientist and UK Young Technologist of the Year. There will also [...]

Posted in Interesting Things, Outreach | Also tagged big bang fair, darwin, exhibition, Outreach, school, Science, students | Leave a comment

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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My recent work has included creating numerical simulations of cosmological perturbations during inflation. My code, called Pyflation, is open source and available for download.

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- Useful list of scientific computing skills on SciComp Stack Exchange Q&A site http://t.co/wRN3n8tl 11:54:20 AM February 03, 2012 from Tweet Button
- Interesting clash of theoretical and observational/data cosmologists at London discussion meeting. Difficult to explain ideas to each other. 08:05:48 PM February 02, 2012 from Twitter for Android
- Waiting for the start of the launch of the new School of Physics and Astronomy @PhysicsatQM. Inaugural lecture by David Burgess later on. 02:30:49 PM January 31, 2012 from Twitter for Android
- RT @astronomyblog: I know it was already retweeted but here is a great video about simulated galaxies by @apontzen http://t.co/GVGgdzZr ... 11:32:59 PM January 17, 2012 from Twitter for Android
- RT @PhysicsatQM: You are invited to the launch of the School of Physics & Astronomy on 31 Jan celebrated by talks from our research grps:... 04:56:31 PM January 16, 2012 from web
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