Monday, March 31, 2014

Monday, March 24, 2014

• Co56 gamma-ray line from Type Ia Supernova in M82. http://www.astronomerstelegram.org/?read=5992 [Jacco]
• Killing the Straw Man: Does BICEP Prove Inflation? Dent et al.  http://arxiv.org/abs/1403.5166 [Francesca]

Monday, March 17

• We will discuss - and vote! - for the GRAPPA logo
• Jan Pieter van der Schaar will tell us all we need to know about CMB polarization, B-modes, and the implications for inflationary scenarios
• Don't forget to print your own BICEP2 Bingo Cards

Monday, March 10

• Physics: Broaden the search for dark matter, Mario Livio & Joe Silk, http://www.nature.com/news/physics-broaden-the-search-for-dark-matter-1.14795 [David B.]
• Self-interacting asymmetric dark matter coupled to a light massive dark photon, Kalliopi Petraki et al., http://arxiv.org/abs/arXiv:1403.1077 [Kallia]
• Sequestering the Standard Model Vacuum Energy, Nemanja Kaloper & Antonio Padilla, http://arxiv.org/abs/1309.6562 [Ben]
• The Fermi Bubbles Revisited, Rui-zhi Yang et al., http://arxiv.org/abs/arXiv:1402.0403 [David B.]
• Annihilation Signals from Asymmetric Dark Matter, E. Hardy et al., http://arxiv.org/abs/arXiv:1402.4500 [Christoph]