Research lectures, seminars and events
The events listed in this area are research seminars, workshops and lectures hosted by Durham University departments and research institutes. If you are not a member of the University, but wish to enquire about attending one of the events please contact the organiser or host department.
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Events for 8 November 2019
Energy: Contexts and Challenges - intenstive teaching week
Contact simone.abram@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Guilherme Pimentel: The Cosmological Bootstrap
In flat space, four point scattering amplitudes at weak coupling can be fully determined from Lorentz symmetry, unitarity and causality. The resulting scattering amplitude depends on model details only through coupling constants and the particle content of the theory. I will show how the analogous story works in the case of inflationary fluctuations. I will present explicit expressions for weakly coupled inflationary three and four-point functions, whose shapes depend on the field content of the theory, and do not depend on the specific inflationary model, as long as the fluctuations minimally break de Sitter symmetry. This "cosmological bootstrap" is a first step towards classifying all possible shapes of primordial non-Ggaussianity, which can be searched for in experimental data. I will also present results for cosmological correlation functions of spinning fields, where consistency forces us to rediscover many beautiful, universal results about gauge theory and gravity.
Contact christiana.pantelidou@durham.ac.uk, mathew.r.bullimore@durham.ac.uk, edoardo.lauria@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
