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CosmoClub October 29

On top of the regular Journal Club, we will have Ben discussing the NEC, which caught the interest of Bousso et al. in some papers. We also have time to discuss some other papers, so please put any interesting papers you would like to discuss as a comment to this message.

Cheers, 
Lars

CosmoClub October 22

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Cheers, 
Jan Pieter.

CosmoClub October 15

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Cheers, 
Jan Pieter.

CosmoClub October 8

This week we are very happy to have Bert Vercnocke lead a discussion on:

Nilpotent superfields and cosmology

I will review the progress in the last year or so on using nilpotent superfields to construct dS vacua and models for inflation in supergravity and the way to obtain them from string theory. Advised first reading: 

Introductions of: 

http://arxiv.org/abs/1509.06345 [first paragraph lightning review SUGRA] 

http://arxiv.org/abs/1507.07556v2 [review string theory embedding, KKLT mechanism] 

Further reading: 

SUGRA superfield formalism:  http://arxiv.org/abs/1408.4096 

in components: http://arxiv.org/abs/1507.08264 

STRING THEORY brane construction KKLT: http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0301240 

nilpotent superfield in components: http://arxiv.org/abs/1502.07627 

from representation theory: http://arxiv.org/abs/1507.07556

Keep all those interesting papers you would like to discuss for next week's CosmoClub.
Cheers, Jan Pieter.

CosmoClub September 24

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Cheers,
- Lars

CosmoClub September 17

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Cheers,
- Lars