Selected Technical Talks

1. Probing the Physics of Inflation
   Given in various incarnations at: Queen Mary University (December 2012), Imperial College London (November 2012), Nottingham University (October 2012), Cook's Branch Conservancy (March 2012), University of Minnesota (April 2012), KICP (November 2011), Pre-Planckian Inflation (October 2011), University of Michigan (May 2011), Texas A&M (April 2011), University of Geneva (March 2011).
   
   
2. Particle Production During Inflation
   Given in various incarnations at: KICP (November 2011), University of British Columbia (December 2009), Case Western University (November 2009), McGill University (June 2009), IPMU (March 2009), Perimeter Institute (February 2009).
   
   
3. Reheating the Universe After Inflation
   Invited plenary talk at PONT Avignon (April 2011).
   
   
4. Nonlocal Field Theory
   Given in various incarnations at: Arnold Sommerfeld Center for Theoretical Physics (May 2010), Simon Fraser University (December 2009), McGill University (June 2008), University of Montreal (June 2008), Perimeter Institute (April 2008), CITA (June 2007), KICP (June 2007).
   
   
   

Public Lectures and Colliquia

1. The Origin of the Universe: Inflation, the Big Bang and Fundamental Physics
   Talk at a University of Toronto Astronomy Department public tour (November 2009).
   Abstract.

2. Cosmology as a Probe of High Energy Physics
   University of Toronto Undergraduate Student Society colloquium (March 2009).

3. The Origin of the Universe
   Talk at The Ontario Science Center (January 2009) for the Toronto Astronomy Festival (an International Year of Astronomy public event).
   
   
   

Me delivering a public lecture at the University of Toronto.