DAMTP Journal Club

Prepared Talks

• Oct 16: Valentin, Solid Inflation

• Oct 23: Marcel, CMB Power Asymmetry from Non-Gaussian Modulation

• Oct 30: Laurence, DBI Realizations of the Pseudo-Conformal Universe and Galilean Genesis Scenarios and Subluminal Galilean Genesis

• Nov 6: Adam, Testing Lorentz invariance of dark matter

• Nov 13: IOA, A Measurement of the Cosmic Microwave Background Damping Tail from the 2500-square-degree SPT-SZ survey

• Nov 20: Yashar, Dark Matter Substructure Detection Using Spatially Resolved Spectroscopy of Lensed Dusty Galaxies

• Nov 27: Jeremy, Bosenova collapse of axion cloud around a rotating black hole

• Dec 4: Helge, TBA

• Dec 11: Hiro, TBA

Suggested Discussion Topics

• Violation of non-Gaussianity consistency relation in a single field inflationary model
• Large non-Gaussianities from DBI Galileon and resolution of sensitivity problem
• Rapid field excursions and the inflationary tensor spectrum
• On the Non-Minimal Coupling of the Higgs Boson to Gravity