Laurence Perreault Levasseur

2011

 
 

I am a PhD candidate in theoretical Physics at the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics (DAMTP) in the University of Cambridge, under the supervision of Prof. Anne-Christine Davis. Before this, from 2009 to 2011, I was a Masters’ student at McGill University, under the supervision of Prof. Robert H. Brandenberger.

    I am interested in early Universe cosmology, in particular in how the study of the earliest moments of the Universe can give us a better insight about fundamental physics. More precisely, most of my work has been focussed on inflation and alternatives, the theory of cosmological perturbations. and pre/reheating. Recently I have been interested in alternative models to inflation which violate the null-energy condition, such as ghost condensates and Galileons, and how they can be use to build consistent (or not) cosmological models.

 

A short introduction

On m’a dit: «Tu n’es qu’ombre et poussières». Mais l’on a oublié de me dire qu’il s’agissait de poussière d’étoiles...

Par les yeux du petit garçon, l’Univers prend conscience de lui-même.
-Hubert Reeves