Talks and Outreach
As part of the job I travel to exotic (and less exotic) places to give talks related to my research. Below you will find a partial list of some recent seminars. In addition I like to promote our field by giving public lectures and being involved in outreach activities. Some of these lectures can also be found below.
Recent talks
- Talk at ICTP "Eternal Inflation" workshop (Trieste, Italy) and "Challenges in Theoretical Cosmology" conference (Talloires, France), Jun and Sept 2009: A Bit about de Sitter
- Talk at PI workshop "Effective Field Theories of Inflation" (Waterloo, Canada), May 2009: Bispectrum Signatures of Modifications to the Inflationary Vacuum
- Talk at FYSICA 2009, Groningen, May 2009: Inflation as a Probe of New Physics
- Talk in focus session at Physics@FOM 2009 Veldhoven meeting, Jan 2009: Cosmological Opportunities for Fundamental Theory
Public lectures
- NEMO childrens lecture "Why is the sky blue?", in Dutch (May 2010) [pdf, ppt]
- University of Twente symposium "At the right place, at the right time" (Nov 2009) "The Ultimate Free Lunch"[pdf]
- Announcement and pdf of a lecture and guided tour of the exhibition "Contemplations on the Ambiguous Nature of the End" [announcement, lecture]
- University College Utrecht Astronomy Symposium (Nov 2009) "Modern Cosmology: A Prepostorous Universe from Nothing" [pdf]
- Science Cafe Nijmegen (Oct 2009) "Voorbij Tijd en Ruimte - Kosmologie volgens de Snaartheorie" [pdf]
- Studium Generale Delft 2007 "Beta-wetenschappers schrijven de geschiedenis", "Alles uit Niets" [ppt]
- Paradisolezingen 2007: 1+1=3, "Alles uit Niets" [ppt]
- CERN High School Teachers (CERN HST) program
- 2003 lecture: Transparancies
- 2004 lectures: Cosmology and String Theory [ppt]/ [video]
- Fall 2001 UM Saturday Morning Physics [SMP] Lectures
- Music of the Spheres I: Quantum Mechanics versus Einstein
- Music of the Spheres II: A world made of strings
- Music of the Spheres III: M stands for Mystery