Research Interest of Sarah Shandera

      Publication 1: Comparing brane inflation to WMAP (URL)
      Publication 2: Cosmology of the Tachyon in Brane Inflation (URL)
      Publication 3: Observing brane inflation (URL)

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Statement of Interest:



  I am interested in the connection between string theory, cosmology,
  and particle phenomenology. In particular, string theory-motivated
  models are providing cosmologists with observationally
  distinguishable scenarios not previously considered. The joint
  constraints on these models coming from consistency of the
  underlying string theory model and consistency with predicted
  particle phenomenology are quite stringent and remain to be well
  understood. Perhaps one of the most interesting observational
  constraints may come from non-gaussianity, where the potential
  wealth of (scale-dependent) data from future measurements could
  differentiate many competing scenarios.