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Tuesday, 22 January 2008, 12:30 in IRMACS

Dr. Richard Battye (University of Manchester)

Constraints on inflation models which predict cosmic strings

Most of the "best motivated" models of inflation predict the formation of a network of cosmic strings. This network can lead to a sub-dominant, but important contribution to the observed microwave anisotropies. We will discuss two models which fall into this category, SUSY hybrid inflation and brane inflation, and the constraints imposed on these models by the recent 3-year results from WMAP.

Seminars in 2007:

2007-10-05 14:30 in K9500 - Douglas Scott (UBC): The Standard Cosmological Model (physics colloquium)
2007-10-23 14:30 in SSB7172 - Wan-Il Park (KAIST): A scenario of baryogenesis compatible with thermal inflation, and preheating
2007-10-30 14:30 in SSB7172 - Alessandra Silvestri (Syracuse University): Scale-dependent growth of structure in viable f(R) theories
2007-11-13 14:30 in SSB7172 - Gong-Bo Zhao (SFU): Dark energy perturbation and its application on cosmology
2007-11-29 14:30 in IRMACS - Henk Hoekstra (University of Victoria): Weak lensing by large scale structure
2008-01-15 12:30 in IRMACS - Mustafa Amin (Stanford/KIPAC): A framework for probing gravity and dark energy on cosmological scales
2008-01-22 12:30 in IRMACS - Richard Battye (University of Manchester): Constraints on inflation models which predict cosmic strings
2008-01-24 13:30 in SSB7172 - John Moffat (University of Toronto/Perimeter): Modified gravity and its consequences for astronomy, astrophysics and cosmology
2008-01-31 13:00 in AQ4150 - Saurya Das (University of Lethbridge): Black holes and the problem of information loss (CAP Lecture)
2008-02-05 12:30 in IRMACS - Aaron Berndsen (SFU): Long-lived relics in warped reheating
2008-02-07 10:30 in IRMACS - Scott Dodelson (Fermilab): Dark matter vs. modified gravity
2008-02-07 13:30 in SSB7172 - Scott Dodelson (Fermilab): Fundamental physics from space (special colloquium)
2008-02-22 14:30 in AQ3181 - Andrei Frolov (SFU): Simulating the Big Bang (physics colloquium)
2008-03-28 14:30 in AQ3181 - Alexander Vilenkin (Tufts University): Many worlds in one (physics colloquium)
2008-04-01 12:30 in IRMACS - James Zibin (UBC): Restraining void models for cosmological acceleration
2008-05-13 11:00 in P8445B - Mark Wyman (Perimeter Institute): N-body Degravitation
2008-08-14 11:00 in SSB7109 - Prashanth Jaikumar (Institute of Mathematical Sciences, CIT, India): Astrophysics of dense quark matter

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