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

Progress on Old and New Themes in cosmology (PONT) 2011

from Monday, 18 April 2011 (08:00) to Friday, 22 April 2011 (13:00)

Monday, 18 April 2011
09:00
09:00 - 12:30
Room: Chambre du Trésorier
Contributions

09:00 Inflation - leonardo senatore (stanford university)

09:45 (P)Re-heating - Neil Barnaby

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

11:45 The EW scale in cosmology - Mikhail Shaposhnikov
12:30 Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:30 - 14:30
14:30
14:30 - 16:30
Room: Chambre du Trésorier
Contributions

14:30 Nonstandard tensor modes from a pseudoscalar inflaton - Lorenzo Sorbo (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)

14:50 Gauge Non-Singlet Matter Inflation in Supergravity - Stefan Antusch (MPI of Physics, Munich)

15:10 Cosmological perturbations in the UV-protected inflation - Yuki Watanabe (LMU Munich)

15:30 Can thermal masses constrain the reheating temperature? - Marco Drewes (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL))

15:50 Imperfect Dark Energy of Kinetic Gravity Braiding - Alexander Vikman (CERN)

16:10 Minimal models of inflation -- connecting cosmology and experiment - Fedor Bezrukov (LMU)
16:30 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
16:30 - 17:00
Room: Salle des Gardes
17:00
17:00 - 18:30
Room: Chambre du Trésorier
Contributions

17:00 Unitarizing Higgs inflation - Hyun Min Lee (CERN)

17:15 Galilean symmetry in the EFT of inflation: new shapes of non-Gaussianity - Guido D'Amico (NYU)

17:30 Primordial fluctuations and non-Gaussianities in a Galilean theory - Sebastien Renaux-Petel (University of Cambridge)

17:45 Inflection point inflation with MSSM Higgs fields - Arindam Chatterjee (University of Bonn)

18:00 Supercurvaton - Vittoria Demozzi (LMU Munich)

18:15 Vector fields and Loop Quantum Cosmology - Michal Artymowski (IFT, University of Warsaw)
19:00 Welcome cocktail
Welcome cocktail
19:00 - 20:00
Room: Salle des Gardes
Tuesday, 19 April 2011
09:00
09:00 - 12:30
Room: Chambre du Trésorier
Contributions

09:00 Hot relics: which ones, how many, and how to know more - Yvonne Wong

09:45 Constraints on magnetic fields - Ruth Durrer (University of Geneva)

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

11:45 Gravitational Waves astronomy - Alberto Vecchio (Birmingham)
12:30 Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:30 - 14:30
14:30
14:30 - 16:30
Room: Chambre du Trésorier
Contributions

14:30 Supersonic Electroweak Baryogenesis: Achieving Baryogenesis from Fast Bubble Walls - Jose Miguel No (IPhT CEA Saclay)

14:50 Electroweak Baryogenesis from a Composite Higgs Sector - Francesco Riva (IFAE)

15:10 Helical magnetic fields from inflation and their evolution. - Lukas Hollenstein (Département de Physique Théorique, Université de Genève)

15:30 New mechanism of generation of cosmological magnetic fields below electroweak scale - Oleg Ruchayskiy (CERN)

15:50 Dark energy with non-adiabatic sound speed - Guillermo Ballesteros (University of Padova)

16:10 Dark energy and inhomogeneity - Chris Clarkson (University of Cape Town)
16:30 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
16:30 - 17:00
Room: Salle des Gardes
17:00
17:00 - 18:30
Room: Chambre du Trésorier
Contributions

17:00 A large void versus the cosmological constant: still no verdict. - Wessel Valkenburg (ITTK, RWTH Aachen)

17:15 Backreaction in the relativistic Zel’dovich approximation - Alexander Wiegand (Universitaet Bielefeld)

17:30 Growing neutrino dark energy - Nelson Nunes (U. Heidelberg)

17:45 Anisotropic stress and (background) stability of modified gravity models - Ippocratis Saltas (University of Sussex)

18:00 The Coincidence Problem in a Phantom Cyclic Model of the Universe - Hui-Yiing Chang (Vanderbilt University)

18:15 The Strained State Cosmology - Angelo Tartaglia (Politecnico di Torino)
Wednesday, 20 April 2011
09:00
09:00 - 12:30
Room: Chambre du Trésorier
Contributions

09:00 CMB with Planck - Fabio Finelli (INAF)

09:45 Tests of acceleration - Martin Kunz (Departement de Physique Theorique-Universite de Geneve)

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

11:45 Non gaussianities - Emiliano Sefusatti (CEA/Saclay)
12:30 Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:30 - 14:30
14:30
14:30 - 16:10
Room: Chambre du Trésorier
Contributions

14:30 Cosmological Implications of Massive Clusters in the Early Universe - ben hoyle (University of Barcelona)

14:50 N-body simulations with generic non-Gaussian initial conditions - Christian Wagner (ICC, University of Barcelona)

15:10 Non-Gaussianities in halo clustering properties - Andrea De Simone (Institut de Physique Theorique-Ecole Polytechnique Federale de L)

15:30 Angular Clustering in Photometric Surveys: a new window for redshift distortions. - Martin Crocce (ICE)

15:50 What galaxy surveys really measure - Camille Bonvin (University of Cambridge)
16:10 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
16:10 - 16:40
Room: Salle des Gardes
16:40
16:40 - 17:40
Room: Chambre du Trésorier
Contributions

16:40 Framework for performance forecasting and optimization of CMB B-mode observations in presence of astrophysical foregrounds - Josquin Errard (Laboratoire Astroparticule et Cosmologie)

16:55 From k-essence to generalised Galileons and beyond... - George Zahariade (Laboratoire APC)

17:10 Modeling the shapes of dark matter halos - Graziano Rossi (Korea Institute for Advanced Study (KIAS))

17:25 Cosmological Perturbations in Horava-Lifshitz Gravity - Alessandro Cerioni (University of Bologna)
19:30 Banquet
Banquet
19:30 - 22:00
Room: Espace Jeanne Laurent
Thursday, 21 April 2011
09:00
09:00 - 12:30
Room: Chambre du Trésorier
Contributions

09:00 Indirect Detection of Dark Matter: Status and Prospects - Lars Bergstrom (Stockholm University)

09:45 Dark Matter direct detection - Eric Armengaud (CEA Saclay)

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

11:45 DM/Baryo connection - John March-Russell (Oxford)
12:30 Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:30 - 14:30
14:30
14:30 - 16:30
Room: Chambre du Trésorier
Contributions

14:30 Spontaneous Genesis - Matthew McCullough (Oxford University)

14:50 Non-Abelian Discrete Dark Matter - Josef Pradler (Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics)

15:10 Dark matter direct detection: a closer look at the astrophysical uncertainties - Riccardo Catena (ITP, Heidelberg)

15:30 Dark matter searches with the Fermi-LAT - Gabrijela Zaharijas (CEA Saclay)

15:50 Constraining the dark matter density profile of milky way with gamma-rays with Fermi-LAT - Nicolas Bernal (Uni Bonn)

16:10 Indirect Search for Dark Matter with the ANTARES Neutrino Telescope - Vincent Bertin (Faculte des Sciences de Luminy)
16:30 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
16:30 - 17:00
Room: Salle des Gardes
17:00
17:00 - 18:30
Room: Chambre du Trésorier
Contributions

17:00 Dark matter relic density at one loop level - effective coupling approach - Suchita Kulkarni (BCTP and Physics Institute, Bonn)

17:15 Dark Matter Effective Theory - Eugenio Del Nobile (Centre for Particle Physics Phenomenology CP3-Origins)

17:30 Electroweak lights from Dark Matter annihilation - Alfredo Urbano (IFAE, Universitat Autonoma di Barcelona & Università del Salento)

17:45 Gamma-Ray Lines from Radiative Dark Matter Decay - David Tran (Technical University of Munich)

18:00 Light Dark Matter and Neutrino Telescopes - Martin Winkler (Technische Universität München)

18:15 Relic gravitational waves from light primordial black holes - Damian Ejlli (University Of Ferrara)
Friday, 22 April 2011
09:00
09:00 - 12:30
Room: Chambre du Trésorier
Contributions

09:00 The anthropic universe - Yasunori Nomura (UC Berkeley)

09:45 Galileon - Claudia de Rham (Université de Genève)

11:00 Quantum gravity - Oriol Pujolas Boix

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

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