Astrophysics

The study of the transient night sky offers an opportunity to tackle some long-standing open questions in astrophysics, such as: how and why do stars explode? when do such explosions leave behind neutrons stars or black holes? and what is the origin...

Each week, we hold a relatively informal seminar/discussion series with an emphasis on extra-galactic and large-scale structure astrophysics.

During Galread a leader/visitor presents a recent paper to the discussion group. The PDF of the paper is...

Abstract: 40 years ago, Richard Feynman outlined his vision of a quantum simulator for carrying out complex calculations of physical problems. Today, his dream has become a reality and a highly active field of resarch across different platforms...

I will review a scenario for warm inflation based on "sphaleron heating" and point out some of its predictions. Based on https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.13227.