Progress on Old and New Themes in cosmology (PONT) 2014

from Monday, April 14, 2014 (8:00 AM) to Friday, April 18, 2014 (2:30 PM)
Palais des Papes, Avignon (Chambre du Trésorier)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
Apr 14, 2014
Apr 15, 2014
Apr 16, 2014
Apr 17, 2014
Apr 18, 2014
AM
9:00 AM
1-Inflation and CMB (until 12:30 PM)
9:00 AM Planck 2013 cosmology results - Anthony Challinor (University of Cambridge)  
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9:45 AM Inflation after BICEP2 - Daniel Baumann  
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10:30 AM --- Coffee Break ---
11:00 AM Testing inflation after Planck - Dr christophe ringeval (CP3, Louvain U.)  
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11:45 AM What is left of non-Gaussianity? - David Wands (University of Portsmouth)  
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9:00 AM
2-Astroparticle (until 12:45 PM)
9:00 AM Leptogenesis: status and recent progress - Stephane Lavignac (Institut de Physique Théorique, CEA-Saclay)  
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9:45 AM Dark Radiation - Hiranya Peiris (University College London)  
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10:30 AM --- Coffee Break ---
11:00 AM Cosmological magnetic fields - Andrii Neronov (Universite de Geneve (CH))  
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11:45 AM Baryogenesis and the EW Phase Transition: some new developments and old connections - Prof. Kimmo Kainulainen (University of Jyvaskyla)  
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12:15 PM Dark forces and new physics at the intensity frontier - Maxim POSPELOV  
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9:00 AM
4-Dark Matter (until 12:30 PM)
9:00 AM Indirect detection of dark matter - Jan Conrad (Stockholm University)  
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9:45 AM A Brief Overview of Direct Searches for Dark Matter - Jodi Cooley (SMU)  
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10:30 AM --- Coffee Break ---
11:00 AM Clues to the identity of the dark matter from simulations and observations - Carlos Frenk  
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11:45 AM A WIMP dark matter particle around the corner? - Thomas Hambye  
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9:00 AM
5-Gravity and modified gravity (until 12:30 PM)
9:00 AM Massive gravity and cosmology - Shinji Mukohyama (Kavli IPMU, U of Tokyo)  
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9:45 AM Testing General Relativity with Cosmology - Prof. Pedro G. Ferreira (University of Oxford)  
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10:30 AM --- Coffee Break ---
11:00 AM Modified Gravity at Crossroad - Dr Baojiu Li (Institute for Computational Cosmology, Durham University)  
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11:45 AM Gravitational wave standard sirens and cosmology - Bangalore Sathyaprakash (Cardiff University)  
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9:00 AM
3-Observational Cosmology (until 12:30 PM)
9:00 AM Cosmology with type-Ia Supernovae - Marc Betoule  
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9:45 AM Cosmology with the Euclid satellite - Valeria Pettorino (U)  
10:30 AM --- Coffee Break ---
11:00 AM LSS and BAO: current status and prospects - Dr Beth Reid (UC Berkeley)  
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11:45 AM Cosmic Acceleration Then and Now - Josh Frieman (Fermilab)  
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PM
12:30 PM --- Lunch Break ---
2:30 PM
1-Inflation and CMB (until 3:15 PM)
2:30 PM The stability of the electroweak vacuum - Jose Espinosa (Departm.of Physics & Astronomy)  
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3:15 PM
Afternoon session (until 6:15 PM)
3:15 PM Closing in on Axion Dark Matter - Javier Redondo (LMU/MPP Munich)  
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3:45 PM UV-completing Ghost Inflation - Sergey Sibiryakov (CERN & EPFL)  
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4:05 PM The full CMB temperature bispectrum from single-field inflation - Dr Filippo Vernizzi (IPhT, CEA/Saclay)  
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4:25 PM --- Coffee Break ---
4:55 PM Minimal models for inflation - Fedor Bezrukov (UConn & CERN & BNL)  
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5:15 PM Non-gaussian imprints of primordial magnetic fields from inflation - Rajeev Kumar Jain (CP3-Origins)  
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5:35 PM Searching for primordial correlations between the magnetic field and the density perturbation using \mu-distortion - Mr Jonathan Ganc (CP3-Origins, University of Southern Denmark)  
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5:55 PM A new consequence of Inflation: Imprinting the Standard Model in the sky - daniel figueroa  
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6:20 PM
Round Table Discussion on inflation and BICEP2 - Daniel BAUMANN Anthony Challinor Hiranya Peiris (University College London) Christophe RINGEVAL Lorenzo Sorbo (University of Massachusetts, Amherst) David Wands (University of Portsmouth) (until 7:20 PM)
7:20 PM --- Welcome cocktail ---
12:45 PM --- Lunch Break ---
2:30 PM
Afternoon session (until 6:30 PM)
2:30 PM Gaia: science and status - and an update on ultra-faint feedback - Gerry Gilmore (Institute of Astronomy, cambridge,UK)  
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3:00 PM Primordial black holes as dark matter candidates: closing the remaining mass window - Peter Tinyakov (U)  
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3:20 PM Dark Matter Interpretations of Extended Gamma Ray Emission towards the Galactic Center - Dr Shunsaku Horiuchi (UC Irvine)  
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3:40 PM Internal bremsstrahlung signatures of Dark Matter annihilations in light of direct detection and collider searches - Mathias Garny (CERN)  
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4:00 PM Recent results from the LUX dark matter search - Simon Fiorucci (Brown University)  
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4:20 PM --- Coffee Break ---
4:50 PM Indirect Search for Dark Matter with the ANTARES Neutrino Telescope - Vincent Bertin (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))  
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5:10 PM Probing Nu-Forces at IceCube - Ian Shoemaker (Los Alamos)  
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5:30 PM Anti-nuclei from Dark Matter - Andrea Vittino (Universita' di Torino and IPhT/CEA Saclay)  
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5:50 PM Search for Ultra-high energy neutrinos at the Pierre Auger Observatory: - Francesco Salamida (Institut de Physique Nucléaire d'Orsay)  
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6:10 PM Higher order dark matter annihilations in the Sun and implications for IceCube - Maximilian Totzauer (Technische Universität München)  
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6:20 PM Dark matter annihilations and decays after the AMS-02 positron measurements - Anna Lamperstorfer (TUM)  
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12:30 PM --- Lunch Break ---
2:30 PM
Afternoon session (until 6:30 PM)
2:30 PM Non-local gravity and dark energy - Michele Maggiore (University of Geneva)  
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3:00 PM Dark Energy phenomenology: the effective field theory approach - Dr Federico Piazza (APC)  
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3:30 PM On the non-linear scale of cosmological perturbation theory - Thomas Konstandin (DESY, Hamburg)  
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4:00 PM Large-scale structures in some modified-gravity scenarios - Patrick Valageas (CEA)  
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4:20 PM --- Coffee Break ---
4:50 PM Cosmological constraints on Lorentz Invariance of the Universe - Mikhail Ivanov (Moscow State University)  
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5:10 PM Dark D-brane Cosmology - Tomi Koivisto (Nordita)  
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5:30 PM Consistency relations for large scale structure - Jérôme GLEYZES  
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5:40 PM Backreaction in Swiss Cheese models - Mikko Lavinto (University of Helsinki)  
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5:50 PM Beyond single stream with the Schrödinger method - Mrs Cora Uhlemann (Arnold Sommerfeld Center for Theoretical Physics, LMU)  
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6:00 PM Probing non-standard gravity with the growth index of cosmologicl perturbations - Mr Heinrich Steigerwald (Aix-Marseille University / Centre de Physique Théorique)  
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6:10 PM Probing the power spectrum of matter with the galaxy clustering ratio - Julien Bel (Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera)  
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6:20 PM A new approach to chameleon theories - Dr Lucila Kraiselburd (Facultad de Ciencias Astronomicas y Geofisicas-Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina)  
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12:30 PM --- Lunch Break ---
2:30 PM
Afternoon session (until 6:30 PM)
2:30 PM Massive black holes and galaxy formation: state of the art and implications in cosmology - marta volonteri  
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3:00 PM Supermassive black holes, gravitational waves and cosmology - Dr Alberto Sesana (Albert Einstein Institute)  
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3:30 PM Cosmology with the 21 cm line - Yi Mao (Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris)  
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4:00 PM Measuring relativistic effects with anti-symmetric galaxy correlations - Camille Bonvin (University of Cambridge)  
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4:20 PM --- Coffee Break ---
4:50 PM Dark Energy Survey: Status Report and Early Cluster Science - August Evrard (University of Michigan)  
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5:10 PM Cosmic variance on the local expansion rate. - Wessel Valkenburg (Leiden University)  
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5:30 PM Cosmology with photometric quasars - Mr Boris Leistedt (University College London)  
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5:50 PM Probing beyond standard model physics via Hawking radiated gravitational waves - Mr Tomohiro Fujita (Kavli IPMU, Tokyo University)  
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7:30 PM --- Banquet ---
12:30 PM --- Last Lunch ---