Postdoctoral Researchers

	Andrew James Tolley PhD Cambridge (2003) Cosmology
	Position:	Distinguished Research Fellow
	Phone:	(519) 569-7600 x7561
	Email:	atolley[at]perimeterinstitute.ca
	Personal Webpage:	http://www.perimeterinstitute.ca/personal/atolley

Positions Held

• 2003 - 2006 Department of Physics, Princeton University Postdoctoral Research Associate
• 1999 - 2003 Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge PhD in Theoretical Cosmology under the supervision of Prof. Neil Turok

Recent Publications

• Andrew J. Tolley, Mark Wyman, Stochastic tunneling for strongly non-Gaussian inflationary theories, JCAP 10 (2009) 006, arxiv: 0809.1100, 2008-09-06
• Niayesh Afshordi, Andrew J. Tolley (Perimeter Institute), Primordial non-gaussianity, statistics of collapsed objects, and the Integrated Sachs-Wolfe effect, Phys.Rev.D78:123507,2008, arxiv: 0806.1046, 2008-06-06
• R. Holman, Andrew J. Tolley, Enhanced Non-Gaussianity from Excited Initial States, JCAP 0805:001,2008, arxiv: 0710.1302, 2008-01-14
• C.P. Burgess, C. de Rham, D. Hoover, D. Mason, A.J. Tolley, Kicking the Rugby Ball: Perturbations of 6D Gauged Chiral Supergravity, JCAP0702:009,2007, arxiv: hep-th/0610078, 2007-12-17
• Claudia de Rham, Stefan Hofmann, Justin Khoury, Andrew J. Tolley, Cascading Gravity and Degravitation, JCAP0802:011,2008, arxiv: 0712.2821, 2007-11-13
• Claudia de Rham, Gia Dvali, Stefan Hofmann, Justin Khoury, Oriol Pujolas, Michele Redi, Andrew J. Tolley, Cascading DGP, Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 251603 (2008), arxiv: 0711.2072, 2007-10-19
• R. Holman, Andrew J. Tolley, Enhanced Non-Gaussianity from Excited Initial States, JCAP 0805:001,2008, arxiv: 0710.1302, 2007-10-08
• Andrew J. Tolley, C. P. Burgess, Claudia de Rham, D. Hoover, Exact Wave Solutions to 6D Gauged Chiral Supergravity, JHEP0807:075,2008, arxiv: 0710.3769, 2007-03-09
• C.P. Burgess, C. de Rham, D. Hoover, D. Mason, A.J. Tolley, Kicking the Rugby Ball: Perturbations of 6D Gauged Chiral Supergravity, JCAP0702:009,2007, arxiv: hep-th/0610078, 2006-10-06
• Andrew J. Tolley, Daniel H. Wesley, Scale-invariance in expanding and contracting universes from two-field models, JCAP 0705:006 (2007), arxiv: hep-th/0703101, 2006-08-14
• A. J. Tolley, C.P. Burgess, C. de Rham, D. Hoover, Scaling Solutions to 6D Gauged Chiral Supergravity, NewJ.Phys.8:324,2006, arxiv: hep-th/0608083, 2006-05-11
• Claudia de Rham, Andrew J. Tolley, Mimicking Lambda with a spin-two ghost condensate, JCAP0607:004,2006, arxiv: hep-th/0605122, 2005-12-19
• Andrew J. Tolley, C. P. Burgess, D. Hoover, Y. Aghababaie, Bulk Singularities and the Effective Cosmological Constant for Higher Co-dimension Branes, JHEP0603:091,2006, arxiv: hep-th/0512218, 2005-11-14
• The Gelaton Scenario: Equilateral non-Gaussianity from multi-field dynamics, Andrew J. Tolley, Mark Wyman, arxiv: 0910.1853, 2009-10-12
• Flat 3-Brane with Tension in Cascading Gravity, Claudia de Rham, Justin Khoury, Andrew J. Tolley, arxiv: 0907.0473, 2009-07-02
• Non-Gaussianity as a Probe of the Physics of the Primordial Universe and the Astrophysics of the Low Redshift Universe, E.Komatsu, N.Afshordi, N.Bartolo, D.Baumann, J.R.Bond, E.I.Buchbinder, C.T.Byrnes, X.Chen, D.J.H.Chung, A.Cooray, P.Creminelli, N.Dalal, O.Dore, R.Easther, A.V.Frolov, K.M.Gorski, M.G. Jackson, J.Khoury, W.H.Kinney, L.Kofman, K.Koyama, L.Leblond, J.-L.Lehners, J.E.Lidsey, M.Liguori, E.A.Lim, A.Linde, D.H.Lyth, J.Maldacena, S.Matarrese, L.McAllister, P.McDonald, S.Mukohyama, B.Ovrut, H.V.Peiris, C.Raeth, A.Riotto, Y.Rodriguez, M.Sasaki, R.Scoccimarro, D.Seery, E.Sefusatti, U.Seljak, L.Senatore, S.Shandera, E.P.S.Shellard, E.Silverstein, A.Slosar, K.M.Smith, A.A.Starobinsky, P.J.Steinhardt, F.Takahashi, M.Tegmark, A.J.Tolley, L.Verde, B.D.Wandelt, D.Wands, S.Weinberg, M.Wyman, A.P.S.Yadav, M.Zaldarriaga, arxiv: 0902.4759, 2009-02-27

Seminars

• Holographic Cosmology Review, McGill, Workshop on Holographic Cosmology, 2009-10-01
• Dark Energy, COSMO 2009, CERN, Plenary Talk, 2009-09-01
• Dynamics is the Dark, University of Geneva, 2009-04-01
• Dynamics in the Dark, Case Western Reserve University, 2009-03-01
• Cascading Gravity, Mitchell Institute, Texas A&M, 2008-11-01
• Stochastic DBI-inflation, Nordita, Stockholm, 2008-05-01
• Enhanced Non-Gaussianity from Excited initial states, UC Davis, 2007-10-01
• PIRSA:09030035, Dynamics in the Dark, 2009-03-17, Cosmology, 2009-03-17
• PIRSA:08100060, Cascading Perturbations, 2008-10-23, PI CITA Joint Cosmology Day, 2008-10-23
• PIRSA:08040008, Cosmology #4, 2008-04-03, New Horizons In Fundamental Physics, 2008-04-03
• PIRSA:08040007, Cosmology #3, 2008-04-01, New Horizons In Fundamental Physics, 2008-04-01
• PIRSA:08030010, Cosmology #2, 2008-03-27, New Horizons In Fundamental Physics, 2008-03-27
• PIRSA:08030006, Cosmology #1, 2008-03-25, New Horizons In Fundamental Physics, 2008-03-25
• PIRSA:08030048, Constraining initial state non-gaussianity via backreaction, 2008-03-07, Novel Theories of the Early Universe , 2008-03-07
• PIRSA:08020045, New Era for Cosmic Inflation, 2008-02-26, Cosmology, 2008-02-26