Cosmology @ KCL

Alexander C. Jenkins

LCDM, 24 October 2019

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Cosmology @ KCL

Cosmology research at King’s happens in TPPC,part of the Physics DepartmentTPPC © “Theoretical Particle Physics and Cosmology”Very broad range of research:

I dark matter / astroparticle physicsI modified gravity / quantum gravityI string theory / supersymmetryI inflation / LSSI gravitational waves / numerical relativity

Theory + pheno, membership of several experimentsI LIGO / LISA / SKA / ATLAS / Moedal

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TPPC Sta�

Bobby AcharyaJean AlexandreDiego Blas*John Ellis*Malcolm Fairbairn*†Je� GrubeEugene Lim*

Nick MavromatosChris McCabeMairi SakellariadouSarben SarkarHelvi WitekFurqaan Yusaf

*: the ones that usually come to LCDM†: LCDM contact for KCL

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TPPC PostDocs

Miguel Campos*Miguel Escudero*Marek Lewicki*Ville Vaskonen*

*: the ones that usually come to LCDM

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TPPC Students

James Alvey* (Fairbairn)Josu Aurrekoetxea* (Lim)Stephanie Baines(Ellis/Mavromatos)Matt Elley* (Witek)Giuseppe Ficarra* (Witek)Alex Jenkins*† (Sakellariadou)

Katarina Martinovic*(Sakellariadou)Nashwan Sabti* (Blas)Dries Seynaeve (Alexandre)Sreedevi Varma (Fairbairn)Alastair Wickens* (Fairbairn)

*: the ones that usually come to LCDM†: LCDM contact for KCL

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New students: welcome!

Leonardo Badurina (McCabe)Adrian Chung (Sakellariadou)Eloy De Jong (Lim)Bo-Xuan Ge (Lim)Louis Hamaide (McCabe)

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