Programme information:
- The meeting will begin on Monday morning 8th September
2008 and end formally on Wednesday afternoon 10th September.
However, opportunities for further discussions and collaboration will
be available for the remainder of the week and speakers and
participants are welcome to stay.
- Registration will begin at 9am, Monday 8th
September. Coffee and refreshments
are available in the CMS central core from 9:30am every
morning until 4pm.
- All sessions will be held in the large Wolfson
Lecture theatre (MR2) in the Centre for Mathematical Sciences with
lunch and coffee provided in the central core for invited speakers and blue badge
holders.
For informal participants and red badge holders, lunch and refreshments will be available for
purchase in the central core cafeteria.
- A Planck Consortium meeting for Working Group 4 members (non-Gaussianity) will be held subsequently on Thursday 11th September, beginning in MR2 and the CMS central core, followed by lunch and subsequent
discussions in the CTC Common Room (Pavilion B).
Monday 8th September
| 9:00 | Registration | Central core |
| 10:00 | Welcome | MR2 |
| 10:10 | Ben Wandelt (UIUC, USA) | The status of
non-Gaussianity |
| 10:50 | MORNING COFFEE |
Central core |
| 11:20 | Paolo Creminelli (ICTP, Trieste, Italy) | Effective field theory of inflation and non-linear perturbations |
| 11:55 | Xingang Chen (MIT, USA) | Large Non-Gaussianities in Single Field Inflation (title TBC) |
| 12:20 |
LUNCH/DISCUSSIONS |
Central core |
| 14:30 | Asantha Cooray (UC-Irvine, USA)
| Impact of Secondary non-Gaussianities on the Search for
Primordial Non-Gaussianity (title TBC) |
| 15:05 | David Lyth (Lancaster, UK)
| Statistical anisotropy of the curvature perturbations
from vector field pertrbations |
| 15:25 | Yeinzon Rodriguez (UAN and UIS, Bucaramanga, Colombia)
| Large non-Gaussianities from loop corrections in slow roll
inflation |
| 15:45 | Nicola Bartolo (University of Padova, Italy)
| CMB non-Gaussianity from second order anisotropies |
| 16:10 | AFTERNOON TEA |
Central core |
| 16:35 | David Seery (DAMTP, Cambridge, UK) |
Non-gaussianity of inflationary field perturbations from the
field equation (title TBC) |
| 17:00 | Gerasimos Rigopoulous (Helsinki, Finland) |
On the divergences of inflationary superhorizon
perturbations |
| 17:25 | Poster Session | Central core |
| 18:00 |
FINISH |
|
18:30 | DINNER |
Central core |
Tuesday 9th September
| 9:30 | Eiichiro Komatsu (University of Texas, USA) | WMAP 5-year results:
Measurement of f_NL |
| 10:05 | Kendrick Smith (IoA, Cambridge, UK)
| Algorithms for bispectra: forecasting, optimal analysis,
and simulation (title TBC) |
| 10:30 | Michele Liguori (DAMTP, Cambridge, UK) | Measuring f_NL with Planck |
| 10:55 | MORNING COFFEE |
Central core |
| 11:25 | James Fergusson (DAMTP, Cambridge, UK) |
How to build an estimator for non-separable bispectra |
| 11:50 | Daniel Babich (Caltech, USA) | Issues with observational constraints on non-Gaussianity |
| 12:20 |
LUNCH/DISCUSSIONS |
Central core |
| 14:30 | Enrique Martinez Gonzalez (IFCA,
U. Cantabria,Spain) | Estimators of primordial non-Gaussianity
( |
| 14:55 | Chiaki Hikage (Cardiff University, UK)
| Minkowski
Functionals for WMAP Temperature Anisotropies |
| 15:20 | Peter Coles (Cardiff University, UK) | Fishing for Elephants in the CMB |
| 15:55 | AFTERNOON TEA |
Central core |
| 16:25 | Licia Verde (CSI-IEEC, Bellaterra, Spain) | Non-Gaussianity from galaxy surveys |
| 16:50 | Sarah Shandera (ISCAP, Columbia University, USA) | Scale-Dependent Non-Gaussianity |
| 17:15 | Sabino Matarrese (University of Padova, Italy) | Primordial non-Gaussianity and the Large-Scale Sctructure of the
Universe |
| 17:40 |
FINISH |
|
Wednesday 10th September
| 9:30 | Christian Byrnes (Heidelberg, Germany) | Large non-Gaussianity from slow-roll inflation |
| 9:55 | Misao Sasaki (Yukawa Institute, Kyoto, Japan) | Large non-gaussianity from multi-brid inflation |
| 10:20 | Richard Easther (Yale University, USA) | TBA |
| 10:45 | MORNING COFFEE |
Central core |
| 11:15 | Ana Achucarro (Instituut Lorentz, Leiden, Netherlands) | Status of cosmic defects |
| 11:50 | Martin Kunz (University of Sussex, UK) | Sussex String Simulations |
| 12:20 |
LUNCH/DISCUSSIONS |
Central core |
| 14:30 | Martin Landriau (Danish Technical University, Denmark)
| CMB fluctuations seeded by cosmic strings |
| 14:55 | Arttu Rajante (Imperial College, London, UK)
| Superhorizon cosmic string correlations |
| 15:20 | AFTERNOON TEA |
Central core |
| 15:50 | Christophe Ringeval (Louvain, Belgium) | Synthetic flat sky CMB maps from cosmic string simulations |
| 16:15 | Mark Hindmarsh (University of Sussex, UK) | 3-point correlator from Cosmic Strings |
| 16:40 | Alan Heavens (IfA, University of Edinburgh, UK)
| Workshop Summary |
| 17:15 |
FINISH |
|
Thursday 11th September - Planck WG4 Meeting
| 10:00 | O. Forni - E.M.Gonzalez | Welcome, Summary (the coordinators) and Frame Project, MR2 |
| 10:45 | S. Matarrese - B.Wandelt |
Non-Standard Inflationary Models |
11:30 | MORNING COFFEE |
Central core |
| 12:00 | F. Bouchet - P. Shellard | Defects and Cosmic Strings
|
12:45 |
LUNCH/DISCUSSIONS |
CTC Common Room |
| 14:00 | A. Jaffe - A.J. Banday - O. Forni |
Geometry and Topology |
14:45 | E. Battaner - J.A. Rubi |
Primordial magnetic fields |
15:30 | P. Vielva - F. Hansen - O. Forni |
Report on priority tasks: simulations and testing |
16:00 | AFTERNOON TEA |
CTC Common Room |
| 16:30 | Discussion |
Plans for Gaussianity testing against instrumental effects,
systematics and foregrounds |
17:00 | H.K.K. Eriksen - N. Groeneboom |
Cordination with CTs, isotropy and statistics project, other WGs
|
17:30 | O. Forni - E.M. Gonzalez |
Summary |
17:40 |
FINISH |
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Workshop posters
There will be poster boards readily available in the CMS Central Core if
workshop participants wish to present their work on non-Gaussianity.
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