PASCOS 2011 will begin on Sunday 3rd July with an evening reception at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences (CMS), Clarkson Road and Wilberforce Road, Cambridge. The registration desk will open at 6.30pm on Sunday with drinks available and then a buffet dinner will be served from 7:00pm. The meeting will begin in earnest at 9.30am on Monday morning in the main lecture theatre, but the registration desk will open earlier at 9.00am for those unable to make the reception on Sunday.
The banquet will be held in King's College Dining Hall on Wednesday 6th July. Drinks will begin at 7.15pm and dinner will be served at 8pm. Gary Gibbons is the after dinner speaker. The meeting will end formally on Friday afternoon after lunch on 8th July.
All plenary 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 registered participants. Coffee and refreshments are are also available from the cafeteria in the CMS central core from 9:30am every morning until 4:00pm.
Links to pdf files with the full programmes of both plenary lectures and parallel sessions are given below.
Plenary Sessions
A full programme of plenary lectures with titles is available for download (PDF).
| Time | Sunday | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday |
| 9:00 | Welcome 9:30 | Linde (PDF) | Hartnoll (PDF) | Weiner (PDF) | Nicolis (PDF) | |
| 9:40 | Maldacena (PDF, MOV) | Loeb (PDF, MOV) | Kachru (PDF) | Mukhanov (PDF) | Wells (PDF) | |
| 10:20 | McAllister (PDF) | Spergel (PDF, MOV) | McGreevy (PDF) | Tye (PDF) | Arkani-Hamed | |
| 11:00 | Coffee | |||||
| 11:30 | Silverstein (PDF) | Gibson (PDF) | Efstathiou | Zaldarriaga (PDF) | Pretorius (PDF) | |
| 12:10 | Creminelli (PDF) | Burgess (PDF) | Percival (PDF) | Springel (PDF). (Simulation movie - large AVI, 285Mb) | Quevedo (PDF) | |
| 12:50 | Lunch | |||||
| 14:00 | Barr (PDF, MOV) | Parallel | Parallel | Parallel | ||
| 14:40 | Stirling (PDF, MOV) | Parallel | Parallel | Parallel | ||
| 15:20 | Tea | |||||
| 16:00 | Senatore (PDF) | Parallel | Parallel | Parallel | ||
| 16:40 | Lüst (PDF) | Parallel | Parallel | Parallel | ||
| Evening | Reception | Banquet | ||||
Parallel Sessions
All parallel sessions will be held in the Centre for Mathematical Sciences lecture halls:
Session 1 - Large Wolfson Lecture Theatre (MR2)A full programme of parallel talks with titles is available for download (PDF).
Session 2 - Meeting Room 3 (MR3)
Session 3 - Meeting Room 5 (MR5)
Tuesday 5 July |
Session 1: Cosmology. Chair: Paul Shellard |
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14:00 |
Camille Bonvin University of Cambridge |
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What galaxy surveys really measure |
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14:15 |
Mischa Gerstenlauer University of Heidelberg |
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Inflationary Correlation functions without Infrared Divergences |
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14:30 |
Yi Wang McGill University, Canada |
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Signatures for inflation in a landscape |
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14:45 |
David Wands University of Portsmouth |
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Scale dependence of local-type non-Gaussianity |
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15:00 |
Hassan Firouzjahi IPM, Tehran |
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Curvature perturbations and waterfall quantum fluctuations in hybrid inflation |
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15:15 |
Andrei Frolov Simon Fraser University, Canada |
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Local non-Gaussianity Estimators for the CMB data analysis |
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15:30 |
TEA |
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16:00 |
Johannes Noller Imperial College, London |
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Non-Gaussianity in single field models without slow-roll |
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16:15 |
Alessandro Tronconi Bologna University |
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Inflation and Reheating in Spontaneously Generated Gravity |
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16:30 |
Mark Jackson University of Leiden |
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Observing Quantum Gravity in the Sky |
PDF, MOV | |
16:45 |
Anastasia Fialkov Tel Aviv University |
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How Sensitive is the CMB to a Single Lens? |
PDF, MOV | |
17:00 |
Andrew Pontzen University of Cambridge |
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Isotropy of the CMB: physics and statistics |
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17:15 |
Jaiyul Yoo University of Zurich |
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General relativistic description of the observed galaxy power spectrum |
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17:30 |
Ian Moss University of Newcastle |
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Hot fluctuations from the hot big bang |
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17:45 |
Damien Easson |
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Constraining the Inflaton Lagrangian with Primordial Gravitational Waves |
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Tuesday 5 July |
Session 2: String Theory. Chair: Daniel Baumann |
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14:00 |
Kunihito Uzawa Kindai University |
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Warped de Sitter compactifications |
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14:15 |
Susha Parameswaran |
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On Couplings in MSSM Heterotic Orbifold Models |
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14:30 |
Diederik Roest University of Groningen |
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Stability of non-supersymmetric vacua of supergravity and string theory |
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14:45 |
Damien George Nikhef, Amsterdam |
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A systematic approach to model building |
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15:00 |
Daisuke Yokoyama Tokyo Institute of Technology |
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Superconformal index for large N quiver Chern-Simons theories |
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15:15 |
Takuya Saka Tokyo Institute of Technology |
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N=4 Instanton Effective Action in Omega-background and D3/D(-1)-brane System in R-R Background |
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15:30 |
TEA |
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16:00 |
Ling Yan Hung Perimeter Institute |
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On Holographic Entanglement Entropy and Higher Curvature Gravity |
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16:15 |
Matthew Lippert University of Crete |
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Holographic Models of the Quantum Hall Effect |
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16:30 |
Betti Hartmann Jacobs University, Bremen |
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Holographic superconductors and superfluids: backreaction |
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16:45 |
Gonzalo Torroba Stanford University, SLAC |
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A simple harmonic universe |
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17:00 |
Simon Gentle University of Durham |
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Linear response from black holes |
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17:15 |
Tom Hartman Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton |
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Higher Spin Holography and dS/CFT |
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17:30 |
Marika Taylor |
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The holographic fluid dual to vacuum Einstein gravity |
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17:45 |
Michele Cicoli DESY, Hamburg |
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Testing anisotropic string compactifications in the lab |
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Tuesday 5 July |
Session 3: Cosmological Defects. Chair: Tasos Avgoustidis |
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14:00 |
Rhiannon Gwyn King's College, London |
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Theoretical constraints on brane inflation and cosmic superstring radiation |
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14:15 |
Mark Hindmarsh University of Sussex |
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Cosmic Microwave Background constraints and prospects for detection |
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14:30 |
Mairi Sakellariadou King's College, London |
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Recent developments on cosmic string dynamics |
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14:45 |
Koichi Miyamoto Institute for Cosmic Ray Research, Japan |
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| Cosmological effects of decaying cosmic string loops with TeV-scale width | ||
| 15:00 | Ana Achucarro University of Leiden | |
Ultra-high speed collision and reconnection of Abelian Higgs strings in the deep type-II regime |
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15:15 |
Mareike Haberichter Manchester University |
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Spinning Skyrmions |
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15:30 |
TEA |
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16:00 |
Mustafa Amin Masachusetts Institute of Technology |
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Oscillons at the end of inflation |
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16:15 |
Stephen Feeney University College, London |
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First Observational Tests of Eternal Inflation |
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16:30 |
John Giblin Kenyon College / Perimeter Institute, Canada |
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Gravitational Radiation from Bubble Collisions |
PDF, MOV | |
16:45 |
Ken'ichi Saikawa University of Tokyo |
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Axion cosmology and domain walls |
PDF, MOV | |
Wednesday 6 July |
Session 1: Cosmology. Chair: Xingang Chen |
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14:00 |
Jonathan Ganc University of Texas, Austin |
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Title TBC |
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14:15 |
Alex Bernardini Universidade Federal de São Carlos |
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Reproducing neutrino effects on the matter power spectrum through a degenerate Fermi gas approach |
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14:30 |
James Fergusson University of Cambridge |
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| Applications of Modal Methods to CMB non-Gaussianity | ||
14:45 |
Donough Regan University of Sussex |
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CMB Trispectrum Constraints |
PDF, MOV | |
15:00 |
Amjad Ashoorioon Uppsala University |
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Effects of Nonlinear Dispersion Relations on Non-Gaussianities |
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15:15 |
Daniel Grin Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton |
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Compensated Isocurvature Perturbations and the Cosmic Microwave Background |
PDF, MOV | |
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15:30 |
TEA |
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16:00 |
Krzysztof Turzynski University of Warsaw |
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Strongly Coupled Perturbations in Two-Field Inflationary Models |
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16:15 |
Marieke Postma Nikhef |
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M-flation and its spectators |
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16:30 |
Sonia Paban University of Texas at Austin |
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Initial Conditions for Inflation Revisited |
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16:45 |
Jose Fonseca University of Portsmouth |
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Non-Gaussianity and gravitational waves from Curvaton |
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17:00 |
David Rapetti Dark Cosmology Centre, Copenhagen |
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Testing cosmology with galaxy clusters |
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17:15 |
Richard Easther Yale University |
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| The Universe After Inflation | PDF, MOV | |
Wednesday 6 July |
Session 2: Particle Phenomenology. Chair: Ben Allanach |
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14:00 |
Otto Kong National Central University, Taiwan |
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Analysis of Dynamical Symmetry Breaking in Supersymmetric Models |
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14:15 |
Dimitry Madigozhin Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Russia |
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| Study of Ke4 decays at NA48 and tests of ChPT | ||
14:30 |
Evelina Gersabeck INFN Perugia, Italy |
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Searches for lepton flavour and lepton number violation in kaon decays at CERN |
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14:45 |
Michele Veltri INFN Firenze & Universita' Urbino |
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Precise Form Factor Measurement of K±μ3 decays at NA48/2 |
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15:00 |
Giulia De Bonis University of Roma Sapienza and INFN |
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ANTARES — A Neutrino Telescope in the Mediterranean Sea |
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15:15 |
Shin Sasaki Tokyo Institute of Technology |
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R-symmetry Breaking and O'Raifeartaigh Model with Global Symmetries at Finite Temperature |
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15:30 |
TEA |
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16:00 |
Paul Archer University of Sussex |
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Flavour Physics in the Softwall Model |
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16:15 |
Angela Lepidi Ludwig-Maximilians-University München |
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Bose-Einstein Condensates and Primordial Magnetogenesis |
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16:30 |
Seodong Shin Seoul National University |
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The same charge dimuon asymmetry and electroweak precision with Z |
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16:45 |
Yutaka Ookouchi IPMU, Japan |
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Direct hybrid gauge mediation and cosmological implications |
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17:00 |
Kyu Jung Bae Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology |
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Thermal production of axinos |
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17:15 |
Yuichiro Nakai Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto |
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Inflation in Gauge Mediation and Gravitino Dark Matter |
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Wednesday 6 July |
Session 3: Modified Gravity. Chair: Anne Davis |
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14:00 |
Ignacy Sawicki ITP, University of Heidelberg |
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Dark energy from dust with non-vanishing pressure |
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14:15 |
Lasma Alberte Ludwig-Maximilians-University |
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Ghosts in massive gravity |
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14:30 |
Gustavo Niz University of Portsmouth |
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Can the graviton have a mass? |
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14:45 |
Atifah Mussa University College, London |
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Existence of relativistic stars in F(T) gravity |
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15:00 |
Tessa Baker University of Oxford |
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Consistent Parameterizations of Modified Gravity |
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15:15 |
Alexander Vikman CERN |
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Imperfect Dark Energy of Kinetic Gravity Braiding |
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15:30 |
TEA |
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16:00 |
Jean Alexandre King's College, London | |
| Dynamical mass generation in Lifschitz-type field theories | ||
16:15 |
Jun-Qi Guo Simon Fraser University, Canada | |
| Small Cosmological Constant from Running of Gravitational Coupling | ||
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16:30 |
Clare Burrage Switzerland |
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| de Sitter Galileons | PDF, MOV | |
16:45 |
Tony Padilla University of Nottingham |
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| Self Tuning with the Fab Four | ||
17:00 |
Jonathan Pearson Manchester University |
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Generalized perturbations in dark energy and modified gravity |
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Thursday 7 July |
Session 1: Cosmology. Chair: David Tong |
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14:00 |
Raquel Ribeiro University of Cambridge |
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Large slow-roll corrections to the bispectrum of noncanonical inflation |
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14:15 |
Gonzalo Palma Universidad de Chile |
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Features of heavy physics in the CMB power spectrum |
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14:30 |
Matteo Fasiello Padua, Italy |
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Effective Field Theory of Inflation |
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14:45 |
Anatoly Dymarsky Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton |
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(Single field) models of inflation with large NG |
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15:00 |
Ely Kovetz Tel Aviv University |
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Pre-Inflationary Relics and Large Scale CMB Anomalies |
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15:15 |
Sander Mooij Nikhef, Amsterdam |
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Goldstone Bosons in Higgs Inflation |
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15:30 |
TEA |
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16:00 |
Thorsten Battefeld University of Göttingen |
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A grazing ESP encounter during Inflation |
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16:15 |
Chia-Min Lin National Tsing Hua University |
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Hilltop Supernatural Inflation |
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16:30 |
Paulo Reimberg Universidade de Sao Paolo |
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CMB causal structure |
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16:45 |
Levon Pogosian Simon Fraser University, Canada |
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CMB B-modes from Faraday rotation |
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17:00 |
Giovanni Marozzi College de France, Paris |
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Light-cone averaging in cosmology: formalism and applications |
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Thursday 7 July |
Session 2: Astro-particle Physics. Chair: James Fergusson |
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14:00 |
Chian-Shu Chen National Center for Theoretical Sciences, Taiwan |
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Bimodal/Schizophrenic Neutrino As a Bridge betweenInflation and Dark Energy |
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14:15 |
Motohiko Kusakabe University of Tokyo |
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| Possible signatures of exotic long-lived strongly interacting massive particles (SIMPs) on light element abundances | PDF, MOV | |
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14:30 |
Alexander Kartavtsev Max-Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics |
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Non-equilibrium QFT approach to resonant leptogenesis |
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14:45 |
Dario Schalla TU Dortmund |
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| Fourth generation Majorana neutrinos | ||
15:00 |
Robert Crittenden University of Portsmouth |
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On the evidence for axions from Active Galactic Nuclei |
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15:15 |
Hayato Motohashi University of Tokyo |
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| Constraints on f(R) gravity and neutrino mass from large scale structure | ||
15:30 |
TEA |
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16:00 |
Deog Ki Hong Pusan National University, Republic of Korea |
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Techni-dilaton as Dark Matter |
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16:15 |
Janine Hütig Goethe-University, Frankfurt |
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Leptogenesis - A fully quantum mechanical description in athermal bath |
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16:30 |
Subhendra Mohanty Physical Research Lab., Ahmedabad, India |
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Reconciling relic density with indirect signals of dark matter annihilation via Sommerfeld enhancement |
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16:45 |
Csaba Balazs Monash University |
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The status of the cosmic electron-positron anomaly |
PDF, MOV | |
17:00 |
Michael Schmidt Durham University |
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Radiative Neutrino Masses and Dark Matter |
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Thursday 7 July |
Session 3: Modified Gravity. Chair: Eugene Lim |
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14:00 |
Johanna Karouby McGill University, Canada |
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On the Instability of the Lee-Wick Bounce |
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14:15 |
Tsutomu Kobayashi Kyoto University |
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Primordial non-Gaussianity from G-inflation |
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14:30 |
Jeremy Sakstein University of Cambridge |
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Modified Gravity makes Galaxies Brighter |
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14:45 |
Sébastien Renaux-Petel University of Cambridge |
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Primordial fluctuations and non-Gaussianities in a Galilean theory |
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15:00 |
Federico Urban University of British Columbia |
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Resonant Dark Energy and Cosmic Magnetic Fields |
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15:15 |
Darrel Yawitch King's College London |
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Emergent relativistic-like Kinematics and Dynamical Mass Generation for a Lifshitz-type Yukawa model |
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15:30 |
TEA |
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16:00 |
George Zahariade Université Paris 7 Denis Diderot |
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| From k-essence to generalised Galileons and beyond... | ||
16:15 |
Masahide Yamaguchi Tokyo Institute of Technology |
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Runaway Domain Wall and Space-time Varying alpha |
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16:30 |
Philippe Brax IPHT Saclay, France |
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The environmentally dependent dilaton |
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16:45 |
Tamara Davis University of Queensland, Australia |
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Results from the WiggleZ Dark Energy Survey |
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17:00 |
Rachel Rosen |
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Addressing the Ghost Problem in Massive Gravity |
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