New Horizons in Particle Cosmology
All workshop talks will be held in Room A8, David Rittenhouse Laboratory.
FRIDAY DEC. 11:
10h30: Welcome coffee
10h55: WELCOMING REMARKS
11-11h45: Paul Steinhardt: Why Bounce? (Slides (pdf))
11h45-12h30: Gregory Gabadadze: Extended General Relativity (Slides (pdf))
12h30-2h30: LUNCH
2h30-3h15: Rachel Bean: Benchmarking Gravity with the Growth of Cosmic Structure
3h15-4: Jonathan Feng: WIMP and Related Miracles (Slides (pdf))
4-4h30: Coffee
4h30-5h15: Marcos Lima: Non-linear Structure in Modified Gravity: N-body Simulations (Slides (pdf))
5h15-6: Roman Scoccimarro: Large-Scale Structure in Brane-Induced Gravity (Slides (pdf))
SATURDAY DEC 12:
9-9h45: Neil Turok: Holography, Conformal Symmetry and Cosmic Singularity Resolution
9h45-10h30: Maulik Parikh: Topological Effects in Classical and Quantum Gravity (Slides (pdf))
10h30-11: Coffee
11-11h45: Daniel Wesley: Hybrid non-Gaussianity (Slides (pdf))
11h45-12h30: Tom Banks: Holographic Cosmology (Slides (pdf))
12h30-2h30: LUNCH
2h30-3h15: Sean Carroll: What is Inflation Good For? (Slides (pdf))
3h15-4: J. Richard Bond: The Cosmotician's Agenda: Statistical Paths in Cosmic Theory & Data (Slides (pdf))
4-4h30: Coffee
4h30-5h15: Katie Freese: Dark Matter and Dark Stars (Slides (pdf))
7pm: PUBLIC LECTURE -- PAUL STEINHARDT
SUNDAY DEC 13:
9-9h45: Alex Vilenkin: Transdimensional tunneling (Slides (pdf))
9h45-10h30: Liam McAllister: Oscillations in the CMB from Axion Monodromy Inflation (Slides (pdf))
10h30-11: Coffee
11-11h45: Scott Dodelson: Dark Matter and the Constitutional Convention (Slides (pdf))
11h45-12h30: Matt Kleban: Prospects for Observing Cosmic Bubble Collisions (Slides (pdf))
12h30-2h30: LUNCH
2h30-3h15: Janna Levin: Dark Energy and Extra Dimensions (Slides (pdf))
3h15-4: Lawrence Krauss: Gravitational Waves as a Probe of Inflation and Phase Transitions in the Early Universe (Slides (pdf))
4-4h30: Coffee
4h30-5h15: Lam Hui: Equivalence Principle Implications of Screening Mechanisms (Slides (pdf))
5h15-6: Kurt Hinterbichler: Superluminality in Brane Worlds (Slides (pdf))
MONDAY DEC 14:
9-9h45: Herman Verlinde: Warped Dynamics, Holography and Cosmology (Slides (pdf))
9h45-10h30: Tanmay Vachaspati: Magnetic Fields from Baryogenesis (Slides (pdf))
10h30-11: Coffee
11-11h45: Robert Brandenberger: String Gas Cosmology and Structure Formation: Recent Progress (Slides (pdf))
11h45-12h30: Richard Easther: The Inhomogeneous Early Universe (Slides (pdf))
12h30: CLOSING REMARKS