Below is a list of talks I have given on various occasions. Click on (download) next to some of the talks to view the slides.
- When Neutron Stars Collide (download)
Informal talk at Rice about the first neutron star merger 2017
- Inflation Ends, What’s Next ? (download)
Short talk at MIT celebrating Alan Guth’s 70th birthday 2017
- Nonlinear Dynamics of Cosmological Scalar Fields (download)
Talk at the Post-Inflationary Workshop in Bologna, Italy 2017
- From Wires to Cosmology (download)
Talk at the Perimeter Institute 2016
- How did the Hot Big Bang Begin (download)
University of Texas at Arlington 2016
- Populating our Universe after Inflation (download)
Colloquium at the Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge, 2012
- Ultra-relativistic Soliton Collisions (download)
Short talk for COSMO 13
- Lumps and Bumps in the Early and Late Universe (download)
Axiverse Workshop at the University of Oxford, 2012
- Quintessential Acceleration and its End (download)
Current and future challenges in the dark and early universe, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2011
- Probing Gravity on Cosmological Scales (download)
Cosmology seminar at UPenn, 2008
Colloquia
- 2017: Haverford College + U. of Texas at Dallas
- 2016: U. of Texas at Arlington
- 2015: Rice University + San Francisco State University
- 2014: Cal Poly Pomona + Wellesley College
- 2013: University of Texas at Dallas + University of Texas at Arlington
- 2012: University of Cambridge
- 2011: Kenyon College
- 2009: Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
Invited Seminars
- 2017: Syracuse University + U. of Cinicinati
- 2016: Perimeter Institute + U of Illinois
- 2015: Oxford University + UT Austin + Arizona State U, Rice U + Texas A&M U + Stanford U.
- 2014: ICG Porstmouth (UK) + U of Amsterdam + UC Davis, IAP (Paris) + MIT + U of Chicago + UC San Diego + U of Cape Town
- 2013: U of Nottingham + Caltech + MIT + U of Capetown + AIMS Research Center
- 2012: Imperial College + U of Cambridge
- 2011: U of Chicago + Argonne National Laboratory + NYU + Dartmouth College + Cornell U + Stanford U + UC Berkeley + U of Sussex + ICG Portsmouth + Case Western U.
- 2010: ITC Harvard, CITA, Perimeter Institute + Columbia U + Princeton U + U of Pennsylvania + Stanford U + MIT + UT Austin + Yale U
- 2009: MIT + CfA + U of Pennsylvania.
- 2007: Perimeter Institute + Princeton U + Columbia U + U of Chicago + Caltech + Stanford.
Conferences
Invited Talks
- 2017: Guthfest at MIT + Post-Inflationary String Cosmology, Bologna Italy
- 2016: US-Japanese Kavli Symposium, National Academy of Sciences, Los Angeles
- 2014: Unsolved Problems in Astrophysics and Cosmology, Budapest
- 2013: KIPAC@10, Stanford U
- 2012: Axiverse Workshop, U of Oxford
- 2011: New Horizons in Astronomy (Bash’11), UT Austin
Contributed Talks
- 2016: Cosmo 16, Micghigan
- 2015: (1) DPF 15, Michigan (2) Building Astronomy in Texas 15, Texas A&M U (3) PASCOS 15, ICTP Trieste
- 2014: COSMO 14, U of Chicago; Recontres de Moriond, La Thuile, Italy
- 2013: COSMO 13, U of Cambridge; KITP Primodial Cosmology Workshop, Santa Barbara
- 2012: Non-equilibrium Field Theory in Cosmology, Imperial College
- 2011: COSMO 11 Porto, Portugal; PASCOS 11, U of Cambridge, Current and future challenges in the dark and early universe, Copenhagen
- 2010: Essential Cosmology for the next generation, Playa del Carmen, Mexico
- 2009: Bubble Collisions and Other Oddities in the Early Universe, Columbia U; New England APS meeting
- 2006: Les-Houches Summer School: Session 86, The Fabric of Spacetime, France