Seminars

Our seminar is organised by Steffen Gielen. Seminars usually take place on Wednesdays at 3.00pm, followed by an informal tea break. We usually aim for broadly accessible talks across the range of research areas represented in the group. In general we have a mixture of in-person seminars and virtual talks (using Blackboard Collaborate).

Details of the seminar programme for the academic year 2023–24 are given below.

Semester 1

4 October - Mariaveronica De Angelis (Sheffield) - Multi-field inflation with kinetic couplings: theoretical predictions and observational constraints 

11 October - Marco de Cesare (Naples) - Interacting dark sector from the trace-free Einstein equations: cosmological perturbations with no instability 

13 October - Maria Giovanna Dainotti (National Astronom. Observatory Japan) - On the Hubble constant tension

18 October - Ruchika (INFN Rome) - Reconciling JWST and HST with Planck 

25 October - Syed Naqvi (Jagellonian U, Krakow, online) - Chaos and Einstein-Rosen gravitational waves 

15 November - Emre Özülker (Istanbul Tech. U) - Dark energy phenomenology, negative dark energy density, and the sign-switching Lambda

22 November - Markus Fröb (Leipzig, online) - Invariant observables in quantum gravity and graviton loop corrections to the Hubble rate and the Newtonian potential

29 November - Manuel Reichert (Sussex) - From fluctuating gravitons to Lorentzian quantum gravity 

13 December - Ana Alonso Serrano (AEI Potsdam) - online - Thermodynamics as a tool for (quantum) gravitational dynamics

24 January (TBC) - Matteo Forconi (Rome)

31 January (TBC) - William Giarè (Sheffield)

Semester 2

7 February - Luca Marchetti (New Brunswick)

14 February - Cora Uhlemann (Newcastle)

21 February - João Paulo M Pitelli (Campinas State U)

28 February - Suddho Brahma (Edinburgh)