PITT PACC Workshop: Non-Standard Cosmological Epochs and Expansion Histories

from Thursday, September 5, 2024 (8:30 AM) to Saturday, September 7, 2024 (7:05 PM)


        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
Sep 5, 2024
Sep 6, 2024
Sep 7, 2024
AM
8:30 AM --- Breakfast ---
9:00 AM Welcome - Brian Thomas Batell   ()
9:10 AM Workshop overview - Brooks Thomas   ()
9:30 AM Introductions   ()
10:30 AM --- Coffee Break ---
11:00 AM Block I: Connection to Observation: Overview - Presentation - Andrew Long (Rice University) Kuver Sinha (University of Oklahoma)   ()
11:30 AM Block I: Connection to Observation: Overview - Discussion - Andrew Long (Rice University) Kuver Sinha (University of Oklahoma)   ()
8:30 AM --- Breakfast ---
9:00 AM Block IV: Early Matter-Dominated Eras - Presentation - Adrienne Erickcek Dr Jessie Shelton (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)   ()
9:30 AM Block IV: Early Matter-Dominated Eras - Discussion - Dr Jessie Shelton (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) Adrienne Erickcek   ()
10:30 AM --- Coffee Break ---
11:00 AM Block V: Scalar Fields and Non-Standard Expansion Histories II (Specific Models) - Presentation - Akshay Ghalsasi (University of Pittsburgh) Tristan Smith (Swarthmore College)   ()
11:30 AM Block V: Scalar Fields and Non-Standard Expansion Histories I (Specific Models) - Discussion - Tristan Smith (Swarthmore College) Akshay Ghalsasi (University of Pittsburgh)   ()
8:30 AM --- Breakfast ---
9:00 AM Block VIII: Cosmological Stasis - Presentation - Fei Huang (ITP CAS and UC Irvine)   ()
9:30 AM Block VIII: Cosmological Stasis - Discussion - Fei Huang (ITP CAS and UC Irvine)   ()
10:30 AM --- Coffee Break ---
11:00 AM Block IX: Primordial-Black-Hole Domination - Presentation - Barmak Shams Es Haghi (University of Texas at Austin)   ()
11:30 AM Block IX: Primordial-Black-Hole Domination - Discussion - Barmak Shams Es Haghi (University of Texas at Austin)   ()
PM
12:30 PM --- Lunch Break ---
2:00 PM Block II: Scalar Fields and Non-Standard Expansion Histories I (Top-Down Realizations and Implications for Structure Formation) - Presentation - Dr Sten Delos (Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics) Rouzbeh Allahverdi (University of New Mexico)   ()
2:30 PM Block II: Scalar Fields and Non-Standard Expansion Histories I (Top-Down Realizations and Implications for Structure Formation) - Discussion - Dr Sten Delos (Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics) Rouzbeh Allahverdi (University of New Mexico)   ()
3:30 PM --- Coffee Break ---
4:00 PM Block III: Gravitational-Wave Signals in Modified Cosmologies - Presentation - Lauren Pearce (Penn State University-New Kensington) Prof. Kimberly Boddy (University of Texas at Austin)   ()
4:30 PM Block III: Gravitational-Wave Signals in Modified Cosmologies - Discussion - Lauren Pearce (Penn State University-New Kensington) Prof. Kimberly Boddy (University of Texas at Austin)   ()
12:30 PM --- Lunch Break ---
2:00 PM Block VI: Connections to Fundamental Theory - Presentation - Halverson Jim Prof. Gary Shiu (University of Wisconsin-Madison)   ()
2:30 PM Block VI: Connections to Fundamental Theory - Discussion - Halverson Jim Prof. Gary Shiu (University of Wisconsin-Madison)   ()
3:30 PM --- Coffee Break ---
4:00 PM Block VII: How Inflation Ends: Non-Standard Possibilities - Presentation - Mustafa Amin Tom Giblin (Kenyon College)   ()
4:30 PM Block VII: How Inflation Ends: Non-Standard Possibilities - Discussion - Mustafa Amin Tom Giblin (Kenyon College)   ()
12:30 PM
Workshop Synthesis (until 1:30 PM) ()