Title: Selected topics in early universe: multi-brane inflation and bounce cosmology Speaker: Yi-Fu Cai(蔡一夫) Time: 3:00 PM, January 12th Tuesday Place: Main Building: 623 Introduction: "In this talk I will introduce two important early universe models which have become hot issues in cosmology. First is a generalization of brane inflation model which involves multiple branes in order to relax the fine-tuning problem existing in usual models. The other is bounce cosmology which is viewed as an alternative to inflation, and in this scenario we attempt to avoid the initial big bang singularity from some clues of effective field theory" |