BEAVIS = Beautiful Expository Accounts of Very Interesting Science
The BEAVIS Seminar is intended to be an interdisciplinary seminar loosely organized around computational science and its applications. It meets on Tuesday afternoons in 115 Sudikoff, at 4 PM, and is preceded by snacks and coffee in the second floor lounge at 3:30.
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How Long is a Piece of String?
Julian Borrill
Department of Physics
Dartmouth College
Abstract: Cosmic strings are topologically stable energy configurations which may be formed at a phase transition in the very early universe, and, if so, may be responsible for generating the primordial density perturbations necessary to seed the clustering of matter into the astrophysical structures we observe today. I will discuss the traditional Vachaspati-Vilenkin method of computer-simulating their formation, demonstrate its shortcomings, and present a recent alternative "lattice-free" approach.
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