Tag Archives: Inflation

Two new papers on the arXiv

By Ian | Published: December 5, 2011

Last Tuesday was a bit hectic for me as I tried to coordinate the last minute changes needed to put two papers on the arXiv servers for the next day. The two articles which are now available are numbered 1111.6919 and 1111.6940: Calculating Non-adiabatic Pressure Perturbations during Multi-field Inflation Ian Huston, Adam J. Christopherson Abstract: [...]

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Outreach lecture to teachers

By Ian | Published: July 21, 2011

I gave a lecture to secondary school teachers this week as part of the Goldsmith’s Company’s Science for Society Course on astrophysics. Having heard about the Big Bang model and some of its problems from my colleague Dr David Mulryne, I was given the task of outlining how the inflationary paradigm tries to solve these [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]