Program

All talks are held in the Physical Sciences Building in room 401 right outside the elevators.

  Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
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