CDSAGENDA V.5 Workshop on Cosmology and Strings

Workshop on Cosmology and Strings

Start Time:

9 July 2007 at 08:15

Ends On:

13 July 2007

Location:

Trieste - Italy

Venue:

MB (Main Lecture Hall)

Organizer(s):

Directors: B. Acharya, P. Creminelli, U. Seljak

Material:

no notes available

Monday, 9th July

Room: Main Building Main Lecture Hall

9 July 2007

08:15
09:30

Registration and Administrate Formalities

01h15'

Room: Main Building, Lobby

09:30
10:00

Introduction by the Director of the ICTP , Prof. K. R. Sreenivasan

30'

10:00
10:45

LISA and Cosmology

45'

P. Binetruy
Universite Paris 7, Denis Diderot, Paris, France

10:45
11:30

Coffee Break

45'

Room: Main Building Terrace

11:30
12:15

Lambda in the Landscape

45'

R. Bousso
University of California at Berkeley, USA

12:15
12:45

A Measure of de Sitter entropy and eternal inflation

30'

A. Nicolis
Harvard University, Cambridge, USA

12:30
14:30

Lunch

02h00'

Room: Main Building Cafeteria

14:30
15:00

Efficient Tunneling in the Landscape

30'

S. Sarangi
Columbia University, New York, USA

15:00
15:30

A cosmological singularity in AdS/CFT

30'

B. Craps
Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium

15:30
16:00

Coffee Break

30'

Room: Main Building, Lobby

16:00
16:30

Cosmologies with null Big-Bang singularities and their gauge theory duals

30'

K. Narayan
Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, India

16:30
17:00

Astrophysics and Cosmology of Large Volume String Compactifications

30'

J. Conlon
University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK

Tuesday, 10th July

Room: Main Building Main Lecture Hall

10 July 2007

09:30
10:15

Blach Holes and Hierarchy

45'

G. Dvali
New York University, New York, USA

10:15
10:45

Charting the Landscape of Modified Gravity

30'

N. Kaloper
University of California at Davis, USA

10:45
11:30

Coffee Break

45'

Room: Main Building Terrace

11:30
12:15

Some speculations on inflation

45'

P. Steinhardt
Princeton University, Princeton, USA

12:15
12:45

New Ekpyrotic Cosmology

30'

B. Ovrut
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA

12:45
14:30

Lunch

01h45'

Room: Main Building Cafeteria

14:30
15:00

Phenomenology of New Ekpyrotic Cosmology

30'

J. Khoury
Perimeter Inst. for Theoretical Physics, Ontario, Canada

15:00
15:30

Primordial perturbations in the new ekpyrotic model

30'

D. Wands
University of Portsmouth, Portsmouth, UK

15:30
16:00

Tachyon condensation, string gases and structure formation

30'

R. Brandenberger
McGill University, Montreal, Canada

16:00
16:30

Coffee Break

30'

Room: Main Building, Lobby

Wednesday, 11th July

Room: Main Building Main Lecture Hall

11 July 2007

09:30
10:15

Gaussianity, Flatness, Tilt, Running, and Gravity Waves: WMAP and Some Future Prospects

45'

E. Komatsu
University of Texas at Austin, USA

10:15
11:00

Inflation and Stringy Landscape

45'

A. Linde
Stanford University, Stanford, USA

11:00
11:30

Coffee Break

30'

Room: Main Building Terrace

11:30
12:00

Testing String Theory with CMB

30'

R. Kallosh
Stanford University, Stanford, USA

12:00
12:45

Stringy signatures in Brane Inflation

45'

H. Tye
Cornell University, Ithaca, USA

12:45
14:15

Lunch

01h30'

Room: Main Building Cafeteria

14:15
14:45

Probing Warped Geometries from Precision Cosmology and the LHC

30'

G. Shiu
University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA

14:45
15:30

A Reasonably Explicit Model of D-brane Inflation

45'

L. McAllister
Princeton University, Princeton, USA

15:30
16:00

Coffee Break

30'

Room: Main Building, Lobby

16:00
16:30

Non-Gaussianities in extended D-term inflation

30'

F. Bernardeu
CEA/DSM/SPhT/Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette cedex, France

16:30
17:00

Making and Probing Inflation

30'

L. Kofman
CITA, University of Toronto, Canada

18:30
18:30

RECEPTION

Room: Adriatico Guest House (Terrace)

Thursday, 12 July

Room: Main Building Main Lecture Hall

12 July 2007

10:15
10:45

Spinflation

30'

R. Gregory
University of Durham, Durham, UK

10:45
11:30

Coffee Break

45'

Room: Main Building Terrace

11:30
12:00

The fate of SUSY flat directions and their role in reheating

30'

M. Peloso
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA

12:00
12:45

Cosmic (super)strings: Gravitational wave bursts, stochastic background, and experimental constraints

45'

X. Siemens
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA

12:45
14:15

Lunch

01h30'

Room: Main Building Cafeteria

14:15
15:00

Strings with junctions

45'

E. Copeland
University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK

15:00
15:30

B-mode from strings

30'

L. Pogosian
Siman Fraser University, Burnaby, Canada

15:30
16:00

Coffee Break

30'

Room: Main Building Cafeteria

16:00
16:30

Detecting cosmic superstrings

30'

M. Jackson
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, USA

16:30
17:00

(p,q) cosmic strings and brane inflation

30'

H. Firouzjahi
McGill University, Montreal, Canada

Friday, 13th July

Room: Main Building Main Lecture Hall

13 July 2007

09:30
10:15

Cosmic Microwave Background: scientific expectations from Planck and the future CMB probes

45'

C. Baccigalupi
S.I.S.S.A.. Trieste, Italy

10:15
10:45

Quantum fluctuations may give a small cosmological constant and also inflation without an inflaton

30'

G. Kane
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA

10:45
11:30

Coffee Break

45'

Room: Main Building Terrace

11:30
12:00

Cosmology with pseudo Nambu-Goldstone bosons

30'

L. Sorbo
University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA

12:00
12:45

Overview of Large Scale Structure

45'

U. Seljak
ICTP, Trieste