Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics
University of Cambridge
Friday 20th May, 2011
In MR2
10:30 - 11:00 Mairi Sakellariadou (King's London): Cosmic strings and superstrings: recent results and open questions
11:00 - 11:30 Joao Magueijo (Imperial): Cosmology vs quantum gravity: a chiral signature in the CMB?
11:30 - 12:00 Mark Hindmarsh (Sussex): String-driven things: CMB and more besides
12:00 - 12:30 Ruth Gregory (Durham): Spinflation with speed bumps
12:30 - 13:00 Philippe Brax (Saclay): Testing WISPS with Laboratory Experiments
13:00 - 14:00 LUNCH
14:00 - 15:00 Tom Kibble (Imperial): Cosmic strings: what we don't know
15:00 - 15:15 special function
15:15 - 15:40 Ana Achucarro (Leiden): Slow roll inflation with sharp turns: features of heavy physics in the CMB
15:40 - 16:05 Clare Burrage (Geneva) tbc
16:05 - 16:35 COFFEE
16:35 - 17:00 Tim Jones (Liverpool): Anomaly mediation and cosmology
17:00 - 17:15 Jude Bower (Imperial): Methods of detecting defects in the CMB
17:15 - 17:30 Jonathan Pearson (Manchester): Stationary gauged vortons
17:30 - 17:45 Tessa Baker (Oxford): Consistent parameterization of modified gravity
17:45 - 18:00 Gustavo Niz (Portsmouth): Can the graviton have a mass?
Acknowledgments
This workshop is funded by Cambridge Centre of Theoretical Cosmology and Science & Technology Facilities Council
- UK Cosmology meeting, Cambridge, May 20th, 2011.