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2011
Program (as of June 27, 2011) |
POSTED 6-27-11 RELEVANT MATERIAL FROM THE FOLLOWING LECTURER: Eva Silverstein Some relevant readings on Mechanisms for Inflations are: CMBPol report (a modern overview of inflationary theory and observables) arXiv:0811.3919v2 A recent pedagogical review from the "top down" arXiv:0901.0265v1 Recent papers organizing the problem from the "bottom up" arXiv:1009.2093v1, arXiv:0709.0293v2, arXiv:hep-th/0605045v4 Basic Structure of String Compactifications arXiv:hep-th/0701050v1, arXiv:hep-th/0405068v1 Primary sources covered for illustration may include: arXiv:0808.0706v2, arXiv:hep-th/0507205v3, arXiv:hep-th/0308055v2, arXiv:0902.1006v2, arXiv:1011.4521v2 POSTED 6-15-11 SUGGESTED PRE-READINGS FROM THE FOLLOWING LECTURER: Matias Zaldarriaga The Cosmic Microwave Background for Pedestrians: A Review for Particle and Nuclear Physicists Annual Review of Nuclear and Particle Science Vol. 57: 245-283 (Volume publication date November 2007) DOI: 10.1146/annurev.nucl.54.070103.181232 Dorothea Samtleben,1 Suzanne Staggs,2 and Bruce Winstein3 COSMIC MICROWAVE BACKGROUND ANISOTROPIES Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics Vol. 40: 171-216 (Volume publication date September 2002) DOI: 10.1146/annurev.astro.40.060401.093926 Wayne Hu1,2,3 and Scott Dodelson2,3 Dark energy and cosmic sound D.J. Eisenstein New Astronomy Reviews Volume 49, Issues 7-9, November 2005, Pages 360-365 The large-scale structure of the Universe Volker Springel, Carlos S. Frenk and Simon D. M. White POSTED 6-9-11 SUGGESTED PRE-READINGS FROM THE FOLLOWING LECTURER: Juan Maldacena "Non-Guassian features of primordial fluctuations in single field inflationary models," Sections 2 and 5, astro-ph/0210603. POSTED 6-8-11 SUGGESTED PRE-READINGS FROM THE FOLLOWING LECTURER: Leonard Susskind "Eternal inflation and its implications," hep-th/0702178. "Gravitational Effects On and Of Vacuum Decay," Physical Review D, Vol. 21 No. 12, pp. 3305-3315 (1980). "The Phase Transition to Slow-roll Eternal Inflation," arXiv:0802:1067. "On the Topological Phases of Eternal Inflation," arXiv:1003.1347. "Making predictions in the mutiverse," arXiv:1105.0244. Professor Susskind also says, "I would add to the list an elementary knowledge of black holes, the Holographic Principle and ADS/CFT at the level of 'An Introduction to Black Holes, Information, and the String Theory Revolution,' World Scientific, 2005 would be useful." |
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