Program
All talks are held in the Physical Sciences Building in room 401 right outside the elevators.Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | |
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9:00 - 9:15 | Peter Lepage, Welcome | ||||
9:00 - 10:15 | Baumann | Shiu | Kachru | Peiris | Goobar |
10:15 - 10:30 | coffee | coffee | coffee | coffee | coffee |
10:30 - 11:30 | Smith | Green | Flauger | Westphal | Hui |
11:30 - 2:00 | lunch | lunch | winery lunch | lunch | lunch |
2:00 - 3:00 | Non-Gaussianity | Large-scale structure | winery tour | Inflation in string theory | Kaloper |
3:00 - 3:30 | coffee | ||||
3:30 - 4:00 | coffee | coffee | coffee | closing discussion | |
4:00 - 5:00 | Sefusatti | Nicolis | Lim | ||
5:00 - 6:00 | Senatore | BBQ Stewart Park | Chen |
Plenary speakers:
Daniel Baumann | Non-Gaussianity as a Probe of New Physics (pdf) |
Ariel Goobar | Standard Candles and Dark Energy |
Shamit Kachru | A simple harmonic Universe (pdf) |
Hiranya Peiris | First Observational Tests of Eternal Inflation |
Gary Shiu | Simple de Sitter Vacua in String Theory |
Speakers:
Xingang Chen | Strongly coupled inflaton / Fingerprints of primordial universe paradigms |
Raphael Flauger | Axion Monodromy Inflation and its Signatures |
Daniel Green | Signatures of Supersymmetry from the Early Universe |
Lam Hui | Dynamics and signatures of bubble collisions |
Nemanja Kaloper | tba |
Eugene Lim | tba |
Alberto Nicolis | Null energy condition in cosmology and field theory |
Emiliano Sefusatti | Testing the Initial Conditions with Large-Scale Structure Observations |
Leonardo Senatore | on Slow Roll Eternal Inflation |
Kendrick Smith | tba |
Alexander Westphal | A sufficient condition for IIB/F-theory dS vacua |
Discussions:
Non-Gaussianity | Flauger, Senatore |
Large-scale structure | Sefusatti, Smith |
Inflation in string theory | Baumann, Burgess |
Closing discussion | Easther |