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Monthly Archives: May 2011
Falsifying Paradigms for Cosmic Acceleration – Seminar by Dragan Huterer
Dragan Huterer, from the University of Michigan, gave us a very entertaining talk that stimulated much discussion about how to falsify entire paradigms of dark energy rather than just specific models of dark energy. In their recent paper Mortonson, Hu … Continue reading
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Radical Research IV – rating researchers
In this, the 4th post in this series (the others on video abstracts, object oriented paper writing and freelance postdocs are here: 1,2,3), I would like to chat about a tough but important problem and present some proposals to address … Continue reading
Radical Research III – A freelance market for post-docs?
How about living as a post-doc the rest of your life, making lots of money and never having to move city, yet alone country while you do it? Discussing this possibility is the subject of this posting. I obviously have … Continue reading
Dragan Huterer
I was born in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina (then a part of Yugoslavia). I became interested in physics in high-school, and my dream soon became to study physics in the United States and become a physicist. I was accepted to … Continue reading
Radical Research II – Object oriented papers
At the JEDI 2 workshop held in mid 2008* we spent quite a lot of time envisaging how cosmology might be different in 2020. One aspect of that was the way in which we would do research in 2020 and … Continue reading
Art-science experiment
The issue of what art-science is – or should be – has been a topic of lots of debate at AIMS over the past few months following the Sutherland workshop on the topic, covered by Hillary in a recent blog … Continue reading
Attempts at Solving the Coincidence Problem – seminar by Marina Cortês
In this excellent seminar, Marina told us about her group’s attempt to solve the coincidence problem of dark energy by allowing for multiple phases of acceleration. The coincidence problem is that it seems we live in a special time where … Continue reading
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