Name: Progress on Old and New Themes in cosmology (PONT) 2011
Start: 2011-04-18T08:00:00+02:00
End: 2011-04-22T13:00:00+02:00
Location: Palais des Papes, Avignon

Monday, April 18, 2011
9:00 AM
9:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: Chambre du Trésorier
Contributions

9:00 AM Inflation - leonardo senatore (stanford university)

9:45 AM (P)Re-heating - Neil Barnaby

11:00 AM Inflation and strings - Alexander Westphal (DESY Hamburg)

11:45 AM The EW scale in cosmology - Mikhail Shaposhnikov
12:30 PM Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:30 PM - 2:30 PM
2:30 PM
2:30 PM - 4:30 PM
Room: Chambre du Trésorier
Contributions

2:30 PM Nonstandard tensor modes from a pseudoscalar inflaton - Lorenzo Sorbo (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)

2:50 PM Gauge Non-Singlet Matter Inflation in Supergravity - Stefan Antusch (MPI of Physics, Munich)

3:10 PM Cosmological perturbations in the UV-protected inflation - Yuki Watanabe (LMU Munich)

3:30 PM Can thermal masses constrain the reheating temperature? - Marco Drewes (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL))

3:50 PM Imperfect Dark Energy of Kinetic Gravity Braiding - Alexander Vikman (CERN)

4:10 PM Minimal models of inflation -- connecting cosmology and experiment - Fedor Bezrukov (LMU)
4:30 PM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
4:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Room: Salle des Gardes
5:00 PM
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Room: Chambre du Trésorier
Contributions

5:00 PM Unitarizing Higgs inflation - Hyun Min Lee (CERN)

5:15 PM Galilean symmetry in the EFT of inflation: new shapes of non-Gaussianity - Guido D'Amico (NYU)

5:30 PM Primordial fluctuations and non-Gaussianities in a Galilean theory - Sebastien Renaux-Petel (University of Cambridge)

5:45 PM Inflection point inflation with MSSM Higgs fields - Arindam Chatterjee (University of Bonn)

6:00 PM Supercurvaton - Vittoria Demozzi (LMU Munich)

6:15 PM Vector fields and Loop Quantum Cosmology - Michal Artymowski (IFT, University of Warsaw)
7:00 PM Welcome cocktail
Welcome cocktail
7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Room: Salle des Gardes
Tuesday, April 19, 2011
9:00 AM
9:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: Chambre du Trésorier
Contributions

9:00 AM Hot relics: which ones, how many, and how to know more - Yvonne Wong

9:45 AM Constraints on magnetic fields - Ruth Durrer (University of Geneva)

11:00 AM Recent developments in baryo/lepto-genesis - Michael Ramsey-Musolf (U. Wisconsin-Madison)

11:45 AM Gravitational Waves astronomy - Alberto Vecchio (Birmingham)
12:30 PM Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:30 PM - 2:30 PM
2:30 PM
2:30 PM - 4:30 PM
Room: Chambre du Trésorier
Contributions

2:30 PM Supersonic Electroweak Baryogenesis: Achieving Baryogenesis from Fast Bubble Walls - Jose Miguel No (IPhT CEA Saclay)

2:50 PM Electroweak Baryogenesis from a Composite Higgs Sector - Francesco Riva (IFAE)

3:10 PM Helical magnetic fields from inflation and their evolution. - Lukas Hollenstein (Département de Physique Théorique, Université de Genève)

3:30 PM New mechanism of generation of cosmological magnetic fields below electroweak scale - Oleg Ruchayskiy (CERN)

3:50 PM Dark energy with non-adiabatic sound speed - Guillermo Ballesteros (University of Padova)

4:10 PM Dark energy and inhomogeneity - Chris Clarkson (University of Cape Town)
4:30 PM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
4:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Room: Salle des Gardes
5:00 PM
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Room: Chambre du Trésorier
Contributions

5:00 PM A large void versus the cosmological constant: still no verdict. - Wessel Valkenburg (ITTK, RWTH Aachen)

5:15 PM Backreaction in the relativistic Zel’dovich approximation - Alexander Wiegand (Universitaet Bielefeld)

5:30 PM Growing neutrino dark energy - Nelson Nunes (U. Heidelberg)

5:45 PM Anisotropic stress and (background) stability of modified gravity models - Ippocratis Saltas (University of Sussex)

6:00 PM The Coincidence Problem in a Phantom Cyclic Model of the Universe - Hui-Yiing Chang (Vanderbilt University)

6:15 PM The Strained State Cosmology - Angelo Tartaglia (Politecnico di Torino)
Wednesday, April 20, 2011
9:00 AM
9:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: Chambre du Trésorier
Contributions

9:00 AM CMB with Planck - Fabio Finelli (INAF)

9:45 AM Tests of acceleration - Martin Kunz (Departement de Physique Theorique-Universite de Geneve)

11:00 AM Matter surveys - Will Percival (University of Portmsouth)

11:45 AM Non gaussianities - Emiliano Sefusatti (CEA/Saclay)
12:30 PM Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:30 PM - 2:30 PM
2:30 PM
2:30 PM - 4:10 PM
Room: Chambre du Trésorier
Contributions

2:30 PM Cosmological Implications of Massive Clusters in the Early Universe - ben hoyle (University of Barcelona)

2:50 PM N-body simulations with generic non-Gaussian initial conditions - Christian Wagner (ICC, University of Barcelona)

3:10 PM Non-Gaussianities in halo clustering properties - Andrea De Simone (Institut de Physique Theorique-Ecole Polytechnique Federale de L)

3:30 PM Angular Clustering in Photometric Surveys: a new window for redshift distortions. - Martin Crocce (ICE)

3:50 PM What galaxy surveys really measure - Camille Bonvin (University of Cambridge)
4:10 PM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
4:10 PM - 4:40 PM
Room: Salle des Gardes
4:40 PM
4:40 PM - 5:40 PM
Room: Chambre du Trésorier
Contributions

4:40 PM Framework for performance forecasting and optimization of CMB B-mode observations in presence of astrophysical foregrounds - Josquin Errard (Laboratoire Astroparticule et Cosmologie)

4:55 PM From k-essence to generalised Galileons and beyond... - George Zahariade (Laboratoire APC)

5:10 PM Modeling the shapes of dark matter halos - Graziano Rossi (Korea Institute for Advanced Study (KIAS))

5:25 PM Cosmological Perturbations in Horava-Lifshitz Gravity - Alessandro Cerioni (University of Bologna)
7:30 PM Banquet
Banquet
7:30 PM - 10:00 PM
Room: Espace Jeanne Laurent
Thursday, April 21, 2011
9:00 AM
9:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: Chambre du Trésorier
Contributions

9:00 AM Indirect Detection of Dark Matter: Status and Prospects - Lars Bergstrom (Stockholm University)

9:45 AM Dark Matter direct detection - Eric Armengaud (CEA Saclay)

11:00 AM News from the front of DM theories - Tracy Slatyer (Harvard University)

11:45 AM DM/Baryo connection - John March-Russell (Oxford)
12:30 PM Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:30 PM - 2:30 PM
2:30 PM
2:30 PM - 4:30 PM
Room: Chambre du Trésorier
Contributions

2:30 PM Spontaneous Genesis - Matthew McCullough (Oxford University)

2:50 PM Non-Abelian Discrete Dark Matter - Josef Pradler (Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics)

3:10 PM Dark matter direct detection: a closer look at the astrophysical uncertainties - Riccardo Catena (ITP, Heidelberg)

3:30 PM Dark matter searches with the Fermi-LAT - Gabrijela Zaharijas (CEA Saclay)

3:50 PM Constraining the dark matter density profile of milky way with gamma-rays with Fermi-LAT - Nicolas Bernal (Uni Bonn)

4:10 PM Indirect Search for Dark Matter with the ANTARES Neutrino Telescope - Vincent Bertin (Faculte des Sciences de Luminy)
4:30 PM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
4:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Room: Salle des Gardes
5:00 PM
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Room: Chambre du Trésorier
Contributions

5:00 PM Dark matter relic density at one loop level - effective coupling approach - Suchita Kulkarni (BCTP and Physics Institute, Bonn)

5:15 PM Dark Matter Effective Theory - Eugenio Del Nobile (Centre for Particle Physics Phenomenology CP3-Origins)

5:30 PM Electroweak lights from Dark Matter annihilation - Alfredo Urbano (IFAE, Universitat Autonoma di Barcelona & Università del Salento)

5:45 PM Gamma-Ray Lines from Radiative Dark Matter Decay - David Tran (Technical University of Munich)

6:00 PM Light Dark Matter and Neutrino Telescopes - Martin Winkler (Technische Universität München)

6:15 PM Relic gravitational waves from light primordial black holes - Damian Ejlli (University Of Ferrara)
Friday, April 22, 2011
9:00 AM
9:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: Chambre du Trésorier
Contributions

9:00 AM The anthropic universe - Yasunori Nomura (UC Berkeley)

9:45 AM Galileon - Claudia de Rham (Université de Genève)

11:00 AM Quantum gravity - Oriol Pujolas Boix

11:45 AM White smokes and Dark smokes in cosmology - Sean Carroll (Caltech)