The Early Universe: A Window to New Physics

from Friday 20 October 2023 (05:45) to Sunday 22 October 2023 (17:00)
Physics department (NPB 2205)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
20 Oct 2023
21 Oct 2023
22 Oct 2023
AM
08:00
Breakfast (until 09:20) (NPB 2205)
09:20
Introduction (until 09:30) (NPB 2205)
09:30
Gravitational wave signals from the inflationary era - Lian-Tao Wang (until 10:00) (NPB 2205)
10:00
Primordial features as probes of inflation models and high energy physics - Xingang Chen (until 10:30) (NPB 2205)
10:30 --- Break ---
11:00
Higgs-R^2 Inflation and Cosmological Collider Physics - Yohei Ema (until 11:30) (NPB 2205)
11:30
Cosmological Particle Production and Pairwise Signals on the CMB - Yuhsin Tsai (until 12:00) (NPB 2205)
08:00
Breakfast (until 09:00) (NPB 2205)
09:00
Dynamical Equilibration of Dark Matter and Baryon Energy Densities - Anson Hook (until 09:30) (NPB 2205)
09:30
ADMX Run1c: Multi Resolution Analysis - Alex Hipp (until 10:00) (NPB 2205)
10:00 --- Break ---
10:30
Parity domain walls and the cosmology of Nelson-Barr - Qianshu Lu (until 11:00) (NPB 2205)
11:00
Electroweak Topology and Its Cosmological Implications - Tanmay Vachaspati (until 11:30) (NPB 2205)
11:30
Discussion - Tanmay Vachaspati (until 12:00) (NPB 2205)
08:00
Breakfast (until 09:00) (NPB 2205)
09:00
Cosmological Implications of Axion Rotations - Raymond Co (until 09:30) (NPB 2205)
09:30
Phenomenological Aspects of Dark First Order Phase Transitions - Bibhushan Shakya (until 10:00) (NPB 2205)
10:00 --- Break ---
10:30
New inflationary probes of axion dark matter - Linfeng Li (until 11:00) (NPB 2205)
11:00
Exotic Particles in Fireballs - Mellisa Diamond (until 11:30) (NPB 2205)
11:30
Discussion (until 12:00) (NPB 2205)
PM
12:00
Discussion - Xingang Chen (until 12:30) (NPB 2205)
12:30
Lunch (until 14:00) (NPB 2205)
14:00
Making massive spin-2 particles from gravity during inflation and reheating - Andrew Long (until 14:30) (NPB 2205)
14:30
Cosmological Implications of Kalb-Ramond Fields - Leah Jenks (until 15:00) (NPB 2205)
15:00
Simulating Stochastic Gravitational Waves from Early Structure Formation - Joshua Foster (until 15:30) (NPB 2205)
15:30 --- Break ---
16:00
Schrödinger’s Alarming Phenomenon of Particle Creation in the Expanding Universe - Rocky Kolb (until 17:00) (NPB 2205)
12:00
Lunch (until 13:30) (NPB 2205)
13:30
Seeing highly anisotropic gravitational wave backgrounds from phase transitions - Arushi Bodas (until 14:00) (NPB 2205)
14:00
Charge quantisation, axion strings, and cosmic birefringence - Winston Yin (until 14:30) (NPB 2205)
14:30
Discussion - Andrew Long (until 15:00) (NPB 2205)
15:00
Student Talks (6 mins + 2 min Q&A) - Yuxin Zhao (until 15:30) (NPB 2205)
15:00 Dark matter caustics and their effect on the Oort Cloud - Yuxin Zhao   (NPB 2205)
15:08 Remembrance of Things Past - Boran Yesilyurt   (NPB 2205)
15:15 Cosmological gravitational particle production of massive spin-2 particles - Siyang Ling   (NPB 2205)
15:23 Dynamics of electroweak dumbbells - Teerthal Patel   (NPB 2205)
15:30 --- Break ---
16:00
Ruling out light axions: the writing is on the wall - Subir Sarkar (until 16:30) (NPB 2205)
16:30
Measurement of the parity-odd 4-point function in BOSS CMASS galaxies - Zack Slepian (until 17:00) (NPB 2205)
17:00
Discussion - Jiamin Hou (until 17:30) (NPB 2205)
18:30
Conference Dinner (until 21:30) (NPB 2205)