| December 2006 |
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| 27 | 28 Tina Kahniashvilli, Effects of primordial helicity (CMB, gravitational waves, ultra-high energy cosmic rays) (12:35) | 29 Alex Kovner, The Physics of Saturation: Pomerons and Their Loops (2PM) | 30 | 1 Kathryn Johnston, The Local Group - Does it Make Sense? (2:30) + Abstract |
| 4 Gia Dvali, Discussing recent work (12:40) | 5 | 6 Philip Mannheim, Causality and Causality and Completeness Issues in the Brane World (2PM) + Abstract | 7 Matt Kleban, Black hole entropy in string theory (2:00) + Abstract | 8 Renbin Yan, post-starburst galaxies in DEEP2 and related topics (11:15) + Abstract Volker Springel, Supermassive black holes and cosmic rays in simulations of galaxy formations (2:30) + Abstract |
| 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 Markus Luty, A Realistic Model for Relaxation of the Cosmological Constant (2PM) Physics Dept, Physics Department Holiday Reception (3:30PM) | 15 |
| 18 Amol Upadhye, The cosmological constant in the Bousso-Polchinski landscape (1:00) -- Abstract: Bousso and Polchinski constructed a simplified model of the string landscape, in which different regions of the universe have different vacuum energies, and new vacua are created through bubble nucleation. I will study the probability distribution $P(\Lambda)$ of cosmological constant values in the Bousso-Polchinski model, which is determined by the dynamics of tunneling among the multiple vacua. Since the actual string landscape is expected to be much less ordered than the Bousso-Polchinski landscape, I will explore generalizations of the model, including random perturbations of the vacuum energies. Finally, I will argue that the method used to compute $P(\Lambda)$ depends upon the physics by which our universe is reheated. Darren Croton, Exploring the environmental dependence of black hole growth and its impact on galaxy evolution (3:00) | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 |
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