Physics Seminars & Theses defenses

The Physics Seminar usually takes place in HSCI-103 (map), 12-1pm unless specified otherwise. Please bring your own lunch and drinks to the seminar!

THESIS DEFENSE

Modified Gravity with Scale Invariance and Implications

Nejdeh Nersessian

Department of Physics & Astronomy, CSU Long Beach

Wednesday, December 7, 2011, 4pm, in FO3-200A

Modified gravity that emerges from an explicitly broken scale invariant extension of the Weinberg Salam model is studied in the light of present ideas on inflation and empirical evidence on dark matter and dark energy. Inflation requires the presence of scalar fields interacting with gravitational interactions; dark matter requires the existence of matter that is non baryonic and weakly interacting, while dark energy requires the presence of either the cosmological term or vacuum energy.  All these ingredients are naturally present in the scale invariant standard model.

For information and suggestions about the Physics Seminars please contact the coordinator:
Name: Prof. Prashanth Jaikumar
Phone: (562) 985-5592
Email: pjaikuma@csulb.edu

For the colloquium please visit the colloquium page.

Physics Seminars

are "brown bag seminars" where we discuss in an informal setting new developments in the research groups at the department, in the physics community, or concepts to which a usual lecture cannot devote enough time.

Theses defenses

Each Master's student should present in about 30min his/her thesis. Announcements are made on this page.

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