This is our CoPS/Nordita Theory Journal Club. By calling it "CoPS/Nordita" we don't mean that only CoPS/Nordita members are allowed to attend.
We do prefer if participants
have at least read through the papers under discussion
(though not necessarily all the background material)
| Date | Speaker | Topic | Background material |
| Nov 29 | Stefan Hofmann | Introduction to the cosmological constant problem | |
| Dec 6 | Marcus Berg | N. Itzhaki, A comment on technical naturalness and the cosmological constant, hep-th/0604190 | e.g. Polchinski's review |
| Dec 17 | Fawad Hassan | R. Bousso, J. Polchinski, Quantization of four form fluxes and dynamical neutralization of the cosmological constant, hep-th/0004134 | Douglas-Kachru flux compactification review, Polchinski's review (same as above), Bousso's lectures |
| Jan 17 | Fawad Hassan | Gravity induced by quantum effects (see abstract) | Adler's review |
| Jan 24 | Fawad Hassan | Gravity induced by quantum effects, Part II (see abstract) | Adler's review |
| Feb 7 | Yashar Akrami | F.L. Bezrukov, M.E. Shaposhnikov, The Standard Model Higgs boson as the inflaton, arXiv:0710.3755 | Shapiro, semiclassical approach, section 2.3 |
| Feb 22 | Yashar Akrami | V. Faraoni, Inflation and quintessence with nonminimal coupling, gr-qc/0002091 | (Shapiro, semiclassical approach, section 2.3) |
| March 13 | Stefan Hofmann | SLED (Supersymmetric Large Extra Dimensions) and the Cosmological Constant, 0708.0911 | Burgess '04 |
| April 3 | Stefan Hofmann | SLED (Supersymmetric Large Extra Dimensions) and the Cosmological Constant, Part II | Burgess '04 |
| April 10 | Marcus Berg | Antoniadis, Minasian and Vanhove, Non-compact Calabi--Yau Manifolds and Localized Gravity, hep-th/0209030 | The classic ABFPT paper |
| April 17 | Sara Rydbeck | S. Capozziello, S. Tsujikawa, Solar system and equivalence principle constraints on f(R) gravity by chameleon approach, 0712.2268 | T.P. Waterhouse, An Introduction to Chameleon Gravity, astro-ph/0611816 |
| April 24 | Stefan Sjörs | D. Baumann, L. McAllister, A Microscopic Limit on Gravitational Waves from D-brane Inflation, hep-th/0610285 | McAllister/Silverstein review of string cosmology |
| May 8 | Francesco Sannino | Phases of Gauge Theories, Chapter 3 in Francesco's 110-page review | the other 92 pages in the review |
| May 15 | Claudia de Rham | C. Burgess, C. de Rham and L. van Nierop, Field theory on codimension-two branes and the Hierarchy problem, 0802.4221 | |
| May 22 | - | Home exercise: solve the CC problem! | all the above |