Pascal M. Vaudrevange

Research Interests:

Papers

1. "Constraints on the Topology of the Universe: Extension to General Geometries.", P.M. Vaudrevange, G.D. Starkman, N.J. Cornish, D.N. Spergel, arXiv:1206.2939 [astro-ph.CO]
2. "A Toy Model For Single Field Open Inflation", P.M. Vaudrevange, A. Westphal, arXiv:1205.1663 [hep-th]
3. " On the Existence of Tunneling Bounce Solutions in Piecewise Linear Potentials.", K. Dutta, C. Hector, T. Konstandin, P.M. Vaudrevange, A. Westphal, arXiv:1202.2721 [hep-th]
4. "More Exact Tunneling Solutions in Scalar Field Theory.", K. Dutta, C. Hector, P.M. Vaudrevange, A.Westphal, Phys.Lett. B708 (2012) 309-313, arXiv:1110.2380 [hep-th]
5. " The Overshoot Problem in Inflation after Tunneling.", K. Dutta, P.M. Vaudrevange, A.Westphal, JCAP 1201 (2012) 026, arXiv:1109.5182 [hep-th]
6. "An Exact Tunneling Solution in a Simple Realistic Landscape.", K. Dutta, P.M. Vaudrevange, A. Westphal, Class.Quant.Grav. 29 (2012) 065011, arXiv:1102.4742 [hep-th]
7. "Improved constraints on cosmological parameters from SNIa data.", M.C. March, R. Trotta, P. Berkes, G.D. Starkman, P.M. Vaudrevange, Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 418 (2011) 2308-2329, arXiv:1102.3237 [astro-ph.CO]
8. "Gravity waves from the non-renormalizable Electroweak Vacua phase transition.", E. Greenwood, P.M. Vaudrevange, arXiv:1011.5881 [astro-ph.CO]
9. "Should we doubt the cosmological constant?", M.C. March, G.D. Starkman, R. Trotta, P.M. Vaudrevange, Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 410 (2011) 2488-2496, arXiv:1005.3655 [astro-ph.CO]
10. "Surprising phenomena in a rich new class of inflationary models", Pascal M Vaudrevange, Dmitry I Podolsky, Glenn D Starkman, arXiv:0911.3397 [astro-ph.CO]
11. " The Virtues of Frugality - Why cosmological observers should release their data slowly", Glenn D Starkman, Roberto Trotta, Pascal M Vaudrevange, arXiv:0909.2649 [astro-ph.CO]
12. "CMBPol Mission Concept Study: Probing Inflation with CMB Polarization", CMBPol Study Team (Daniel Baumann et al.), arXiv:0811.3919 [astro-ph]
13. "Introducing doubt in Bayesian model comparison", Glenn D Starkman, Roberto Trotta, Pascal M Vaudrevange, arXiv:0811.2415 [physics.data-an]
14. "Trans-Planckian Issue in the Milne Universe", P.M. Vaudrevange, L. Kofman, arXiv:0706.0980 [hep-th]
15. "Roulette Inflation with Kähler Moduli and their Axions", J.R. Bond, L. Kofman, S. Prokushkin, P.M. Vaudrevange, Phys.Rev.D75:123511,2007, hep-th/0612197

My latest papers can be found through INSPIRE

Talks

1. Beyond the Standard Model 2012, Bad Honnef, Germany, March 2012
2. DESY Theory workshop 2011, DESY, Hamburg, Germany, September 2011
3. Seminar, Perimeter Institute, Waterloo, ON, April 2011
4. Seminar, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, April 2011
5. Seminar, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, April 2011
6. Beyond the Standard Model 2011, Bad Honnef, Germany, March 2011
7. CERCA, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, March 2010
8. Seminar, Perimeter Institute, Waterloo, Canada, March 2010
9. Workshop on low-\ell/ large angle cosmology, Cleveland, OH, February 2010
10. Seminar, APC Paris, France, January 2010
11. Seminar, RWTH-Aachen, Germany, December 2009
12. Seminar, CITA, Toronto, Canada, October 2009
13. CCAPP Symposium, Columbus, OH, October 2009
14. International Workshop on Cosmic Large Scale Structure and Evolution, Bielefeld, Germany, September 2009
15. Seminar, LMU Munich, Germany, June 2009
16. Seminar, Helsinki University, Finland, June 2009
17. CERCA, Case Western Reserve University, USA, February 2009, Download Talk
18. Cosmology Seminar, LMU Munich, Germany, December 2008, Download Talk
19. COSMO 2008, University of Madison, Wisconsin, USA, August 2008, Download Talk
20. CERCA, Case Western Reserve University, USA, March 2008, Download Talk
21. Particle Astrophysics Seminar, Case Western Reserve University, USA, November 2007, Download Talk
22. COSMO 2007, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK, August 2007, Download Talk
23. Journal Club, Columbia University, New York, USA, February 2007, Download Talk
24. Cosmology on the Great Lakes, Perimeter Institute, Canada, November 2006, Download Talk
25. COSMO 2006, International Conference on Particle Physics and Cosmology, UC Davis, USA, September 2006, Download Talk
26. Inflation after WMAP, Workshop at the Michigan Center for Theoretical Physics, Ann Arbor, USA, May 2006, Download Talk
27. COSMO 2005, International Conference on Particle Physics and Cosmology, Bonn, Germany, August 2005, Download Talk
28. CITA-Perimeter Workshop, CITA, Toronto, Canada, December 2004, Download Talk
29. DESY Theory Workshop, DESY, Hamburg, Germany, September 2004, Download Talk
30. COSMO 2004, International Conference on Particle Physics and Cosmology, Toronto, Canada, September 2004, Download Talk
31. Graduiertenkolleg 282 of the DFG, Hannover University, Germany, Spring 2002
32. SOSSeminar, Bonn University, Germany, Spring 2002
33. Diplom colloquium, Bonn University, Germany, Winter 2001

CV

• M.Sc. (Mathematical Finance, part time): Oxford University, UK (2015-2018)
• Left academia: d-fine GmbH, Munich, Germany (2012-)
• Post-Doc: DESY, Hamburg, Germany (2010-2012)
• Post-Doc: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA (2007-2010)
• Ph.D. : University of Toronto, Canada (2002-2007) (thesis)
• M.Sc. (Diplom-Physiker): University of Bonn, Germany (2001)

A complete (academic) CV can be found here.

Misc

• Sildes for the programming workshop in summer 2009
• Birthday reminder for S60 5th edition smartphones
• grt, a package for doing GR with Mathematica 7.0