Search Talks

In these lectures, I discuss how GWs are produced by cosmological phase transitions. We start by a short recap of gravitational waves and then move to early attempts using pairs of bubbles and the envelope approximation. Next we cover the energy budget of phase transitions and the impact of sound waves. Finally I comment on recent developments.
 

This session will be mostly practical. Within the framework of the 2-species LV model, we will use nullcline analysis to predict the outcome of competition in different situations. These include cases in which either or both competitors are subject to cooperative growth, which can lead to alternative stable states that emerge in (2-species) co-culture, but that are absent in any of the (1-species) monocultures.