47. Planck 2008: First and second days

First and second days of the PLANCK 2008 conference: flavor physics, RS phenomenology, WMAP, bigravity, WIMPonium, black holes and number of species.


30. Eye on ArXiv: 30 Apr 2008 - Effective QFT for inflation

Today, I think, the most interesting paper in ArXiv is the one by Steven Weinberg called “Effective field theory for inflation“. I would say, it generalizes results by Cheung et al. (…)


28. Eye on ArXiv: 24 Apr 2008 - dS vacua in no-scale SUGRA; multifield DBI inflation

Laura Covi et al., de Sitter vacua in no-scale supergravities and Calabi-Yau string models; D. Langlois et al., Primordial fluctuations and non-Gaussianities in multi-field DBI inflation


12. Eye on ArXiv: 4 Apr 2008 - KS throat cloaking, non-gaussianity and Mathur’s fuzzballs

1. Alex Buchel, Lev Kofman “Black Universe epoch in string cosmology”
Alex and Lev write about multithroat scenario in string cosmology. (…)


1. WMAP 5 year

Clearly, the most important paper(s) in astro-ph today is the release of the 5 year data of WMAP. (…)