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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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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- Lars

CosmoClub September 17

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- Lars

CosmoClub resumes 10 September

The CosmoClub resumes 11 September, please put any interesting papers you would like to discuss as a comment to this message.

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- Lars

Summer break

The CosmoClub will be suspended during the summer. We will resume again in September.

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- Lars

CosmoClub June 25

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- Lars

CosmoClub June 11

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- Lars

CosmoClub May 28

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- Lars

CosmoClub May 21

After being away for two weeks, the CosmoClub will be back in its full strength on May 21. Please put any interesting papers you would like to discuss as a comment to this message.

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- Lars

CosmoClub April 30

Today, we have a regular journal club. Don't hesitate and put all the interesting papers you've found as a comment to this post.

Cheers,

- Lars

CosmoClub April 23

Today, Jan Pieter, Adri and I will give a summary of the many papers about the weak gravity conjecture and inflation that have been posted on the ArXiv recently. Furthermore, please put any interesting papers you would like to discuss as a comment to this post.

Cheers,
- Lars

CosmoClub April 16

Please put any interesting papers you would like to discuss as a comment to this message. Futhermore, we will have Daan Meerburg visiting and telling us about his research.

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- Lars

CosmoClub April 09

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- Lars

CosmoClub April 02

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- Lars

CosmoClub March 26

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- Lars

CosmoClub March 19

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CosmoClub March 12

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CosmoClub March 05

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CosmoClub Februari 26

Please put any interesting papers you would like to discuss as a comment to this message. Note that instead of the Lounge, we will meet at H320 (Nikhef).

Cheers,
- Lars

First CosmoClub

Thursday February 19, the first CosmoClub will be held at the Theory Lounge (C4.278) at the Science Park. We encourage you to invite all people interested, to this first session.

Cheers,
- Lars