Name: The Early Universe: A Window to New Physics
Start: 2023-10-20T05:45:00-04:00
End: 2023-10-22T17:00:00-04:00
Location: Physics department

The Early Universe: A Window to New Physics

from Friday, 20 October 2023 (05:45) to Sunday, 22 October 2023 (17:00)

Monday, 16 October 2023
Tuesday, 17 October 2023
Wednesday, 18 October 2023
Thursday, 19 October 2023
Friday, 20 October 2023

08:00 Breakfast

08:00 - 09:20
Room: NPB 2205

09:20 Introduction

09:20 - 09:30
Room: NPB 2205

09:30 Gravitational wave signals from the inflationary era

09:30 - 10:00
Room: NPB 2205

10:00 Primordial features as probes of inflation models and high energy physics

10:00 - 10:30
Room: NPB 2205

10:30 Break
Break
10:30 - 11:00
Room: NPB 2205

11:00 Higgs-R^2 Inflation and Cosmological Collider Physics

11:00 - 11:30
Room: NPB 2205

11:30 Cosmological Particle Production and Pairwise Signals on the CMB

11:30 - 12:00
Room: NPB 2205

12:00 Discussion

12:00 - 12:30
Room: NPB 2205

12:30 Lunch

12:30 - 14:00
Room: NPB 2205

14:00 Making massive spin-2 particles from gravity during inflation and reheating

14:00 - 14:30
Room: NPB 2205

14:30 Cosmological Implications of Kalb-Ramond Fields

14:30 - 15:00
Room: NPB 2205

15:00 Simulating Stochastic Gravitational Waves from Early Structure Formation

15:00 - 15:30
Room: NPB 2205

15:30 Break
Break
15:30 - 16:00
Room: NPB 2205

16:00 Schrödinger’s Alarming Phenomenon of Particle Creation in the Expanding Universe

16:00 - 17:00
Room: NPB 2205
Saturday, 21 October 2023

08:00 Breakfast

08:00 - 09:00
Room: NPB 2205

09:00 Dynamical Equilibration of Dark Matter and Baryon Energy Densities

09:00 - 09:30
Room: NPB 2205

09:30 ADMX Run1c: Multi Resolution Analysis

09:30 - 10:00
Room: NPB 2205

10:00 Break
Break
10:00 - 10:30
Room: NPB 2205

10:30 Parity domain walls and the cosmology of Nelson-Barr

10:30 - 11:00
Room: NPB 2205

11:00 Electroweak Topology and Its Cosmological Implications

11:00 - 11:30
Room: NPB 2205

11:30 Discussion

11:30 - 12:00
Room: NPB 2205

12:00 Lunch

12:00 - 13:30
Room: NPB 2205

13:30 Seeing highly anisotropic gravitational wave backgrounds from phase transitions

13:30 - 14:00
Room: NPB 2205

14:00 Charge quantisation, axion strings, and cosmic birefringence

14:00 - 14:30
Room: NPB 2205

14:30 Discussion

14:30 - 15:00
Room: NPB 2205
15:00 Student Talks (6 mins + 2 min Q&A)
15:00 - 15:30
Room: NPB 2205
Contributions

15:00 Dark matter caustics and their effect on the Oort Cloud - Yuxin Zhao

15:08 Remembrance of Things Past - Boran Yesilyurt

15:15 Cosmological gravitational particle production of massive spin-2 particles - Siyang Ling

15:23 Dynamics of electroweak dumbbells - Teerthal Patel
15:30 Break
Break
15:30 - 16:00
Room: NPB 2205

16:00 Ruling out light axions: the writing is on the wall

16:00 - 16:30
Room: NPB 2205

16:30 Measurement of the parity-odd 4-point function in BOSS CMASS galaxies

16:30 - 17:00
Room: NPB 2205

17:00 Discussion

17:00 - 17:30
Room: NPB 2205

18:30 Conference Dinner: Mildred's Big City Food
Mildred's Big City Food
18:30 - 21:30
Room: NPB 2205
Sunday, 22 October 2023

08:00 Breakfast

08:00 - 09:00
Room: NPB 2205

09:00 Cosmological Implications of Axion Rotations

09:00 - 09:30
Room: NPB 2205

09:30 Phenomenological Aspects of Dark First Order Phase Transitions

09:30 - 10:00
Room: NPB 2205

10:00 Break
Break
10:00 - 10:30
Room: NPB 2205

10:30 New inflationary probes of axion dark matter

10:30 - 11:00
Room: NPB 2205

11:00 Exotic Particles in Fireballs

11:00 - 11:30
Room: NPB 2205

11:30 Discussion

11:30 - 12:00
Room: NPB 2205