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

from Monday, 14 April 2014 (08:00) to Friday, 18 April 2014 (14:30)
Palais des Papes, Avignon (Chambre du Trésorier)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
14 Apr 2014
15 Apr 2014
16 Apr 2014
17 Apr 2014
18 Apr 2014
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09:00
1-Inflation and CMB (until 12:30) (Chambre du Trésorier)
09:00 Planck 2013 cosmology results - Anthony Challinor (University of Cambridge)   (Chambre du Trésorier)
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09:45 Inflation after BICEP2 - Daniel Baumann   (Chambre du Trésorier)
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10:30 --- Coffee Break ---
11:00 Testing inflation after Planck - Dr christophe ringeval (CP3, Louvain U.)   (Chambre du Trésorier)
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11:45 What is left of non-Gaussianity? - David Wands (University of Portsmouth)   (Chambre du Trésorier)
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09:00
2-Astroparticle (until 12:45) (Chambre du Trésorier)
09:00 Leptogenesis: status and recent progress - Stephane Lavignac (Institut de Physique Théorique, CEA-Saclay)   (Chambre du Trésorier)
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09:45 Dark Radiation - Hiranya Peiris (University College London)   (Chambre du Trésorier)
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10:30 --- Coffee Break ---
11:00 Cosmological magnetic fields - Andrii Neronov (Universite de Geneve (CH))   (Chambre du Trésorier)
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11:45 Baryogenesis and the EW Phase Transition: some new developments and old connections - Prof. Kimmo Kainulainen (University of Jyvaskyla)   (Chambre du Trésorier)
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12:15 Dark forces and new physics at the intensity frontier - Maxim POSPELOV   (Chambre du Trésorier)
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09:00
4-Dark Matter (until 12:30) (Chambre du Trésorier)
09:00 Indirect detection of dark matter - Jan Conrad (Stockholm University)   (Chambre du Trésorier)
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09:45 A Brief Overview of Direct Searches for Dark Matter - Jodi Cooley (SMU)   (Chambre du Trésorier)
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10:30 --- Coffee Break ---
11:00 Clues to the identity of the dark matter from simulations and observations - Carlos Frenk   (Chambre du Trésorier)
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11:45 A WIMP dark matter particle around the corner? - Thomas Hambye   (Chambre du Trésorier)
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09:00
5-Gravity and modified gravity (until 12:30) (Chambre du Trésorier)
09:00 Massive gravity and cosmology - Shinji Mukohyama (Kavli IPMU, U of Tokyo)   (Chambre du Trésorier)
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09:45 Testing General Relativity with Cosmology - Prof. Pedro G. Ferreira (University of Oxford)   (Chambre du Trésorier)
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10:30 --- Coffee Break ---
11:00 Modified Gravity at Crossroad - Dr Baojiu Li (Institute for Computational Cosmology, Durham University)   (Chambre du Trésorier)
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11:45 Gravitational wave standard sirens and cosmology - Bangalore Sathyaprakash (Cardiff University)   (Chambre du Trésorier)
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09:00
3-Observational Cosmology (until 12:30) (Chambre du Trésorier)
09:00 Cosmology with type-Ia Supernovae - Marc Betoule   (Chambre du Trésorier)
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09:45 Cosmology with the Euclid satellite - Valeria Pettorino (U)   (Chambre du Trésorier)
10:30 --- Coffee Break ---
11:00 LSS and BAO: current status and prospects - Dr Beth Reid (UC Berkeley)   (Chambre du Trésorier)
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11:45 Cosmic Acceleration Then and Now - Josh Frieman (Fermilab)   (Chambre du Trésorier)
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PM
12:30 --- Lunch Break ---
14:30
1-Inflation and CMB (until 15:15) (Chambre du Trésorier)
14:30 The stability of the electroweak vacuum - Jose Espinosa (Departm.of Physics & Astronomy)   (Chambre du Trésorier)
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15:15
Afternoon session (until 18:15) (Chambre du Trésorier)
15:15 Closing in on Axion Dark Matter - Javier Redondo (LMU/MPP Munich)   (Chambre du Trésorier)
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15:45 UV-completing Ghost Inflation - Sergey Sibiryakov (CERN & EPFL)   (Chambre du Trésorier)
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16:05 The full CMB temperature bispectrum from single-field inflation - Dr Filippo Vernizzi (IPhT, CEA/Saclay)   (Chambre du Trésorier)
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16:25 --- Coffee Break ---
16:55 Minimal models for inflation - Fedor Bezrukov (UConn & CERN & BNL)   (Chambre du Trésorier)
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17:15 Non-gaussian imprints of primordial magnetic fields from inflation - Rajeev Kumar Jain (CP3-Origins)   (Chambre du Trésorier)
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17:35 Searching for primordial correlations between the magnetic field and the density perturbation using \mu-distortion - Mr Jonathan Ganc (CP3-Origins, University of Southern Denmark)   (Chambre du Trésorier)
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17:55 A new consequence of Inflation: Imprinting the Standard Model in the sky - daniel figueroa   (Chambre du Trésorier)
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18:20
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 19:20) (Chambre du Trésorier)
19:20 --- Welcome cocktail ---
12:45 --- Lunch Break ---
14:30
Afternoon session (until 18:30) (Chambre du Trésorier)
14:30 Gaia: science and status - and an update on ultra-faint feedback - Gerry Gilmore (Institute of Astronomy, cambridge,UK)   (Chambre du Trésorier)
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15:00 Primordial black holes as dark matter candidates: closing the remaining mass window - Peter Tinyakov (U)   (Chambre du Trésorier)
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15:20 Dark Matter Interpretations of Extended Gamma Ray Emission towards the Galactic Center - Dr Shunsaku Horiuchi (UC Irvine)   (Chambre du Trésorier)
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15:40 Internal bremsstrahlung signatures of Dark Matter annihilations in light of direct detection and collider searches - Mathias Garny (CERN)   (Chambre du Trésorier)
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16:00 Recent results from the LUX dark matter search - Simon Fiorucci (Brown University)   (Chambre du Trésorier)
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16:20 --- Coffee Break ---
16:50 Indirect Search for Dark Matter with the ANTARES Neutrino Telescope - Vincent Bertin (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))   (Chambre du Trésorier)
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17:10 Probing Nu-Forces at IceCube - Ian Shoemaker (Los Alamos)   (Chambre du Trésorier)
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17:30 Anti-nuclei from Dark Matter - Andrea Vittino (Universita' di Torino and IPhT/CEA Saclay)   (Chambre du Trésorier)
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17:50 Search for Ultra-high energy neutrinos at the Pierre Auger Observatory: - Francesco Salamida (Institut de Physique Nucléaire d'Orsay)   (Chambre du Trésorier)
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18:10 Higher order dark matter annihilations in the Sun and implications for IceCube - Maximilian Totzauer (Technische Universität München)   (Chambre du Trésorier)
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18:20 Dark matter annihilations and decays after the AMS-02 positron measurements - Anna Lamperstorfer (TUM)   (Chambre du Trésorier)
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12:30 --- Lunch Break ---
14:30
Afternoon session (until 18:30) (Chambre du Trésorier)
14:30 Non-local gravity and dark energy - Michele Maggiore (University of Geneva)   (Chambre du Trésorier)
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15:00 Dark Energy phenomenology: the effective field theory approach - Dr Federico Piazza (APC)   (Chambre du Trésorier)
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15:30 On the non-linear scale of cosmological perturbation theory - Thomas Konstandin (DESY, Hamburg)   (Chambre du Trésorier)
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16:00 Large-scale structures in some modified-gravity scenarios - Patrick Valageas (CEA)   (Chambre du Trésorier)
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16:20 --- Coffee Break ---
16:50 Cosmological constraints on Lorentz Invariance of the Universe - Mikhail Ivanov (Moscow State University)   (Chambre du Trésorier)
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17:10 Dark D-brane Cosmology - Tomi Koivisto (Nordita)   (Chambre du Trésorier)
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17:30 Consistency relations for large scale structure - Jérôme GLEYZES   (Chambre du Trésorier)
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17:40 Backreaction in Swiss Cheese models - Mikko Lavinto (University of Helsinki)   (Chambre du Trésorier)
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17:50 Beyond single stream with the Schrödinger method - Mrs Cora Uhlemann (Arnold Sommerfeld Center for Theoretical Physics, LMU)   (Chambre du Trésorier)
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18:00 Probing non-standard gravity with the growth index of cosmologicl perturbations - Mr Heinrich Steigerwald (Aix-Marseille University / Centre de Physique Théorique)   (Chambre du Trésorier)
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18:10 Probing the power spectrum of matter with the galaxy clustering ratio - Julien Bel (Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera)   (Chambre du Trésorier)
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18:20 A new approach to chameleon theories - Dr Lucila Kraiselburd (Facultad de Ciencias Astronomicas y Geofisicas-Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina)   (Chambre du Trésorier)
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12:30 --- Lunch Break ---
14:30
Afternoon session (until 18:30) (Chambre du Trésorier)
14:30 Massive black holes and galaxy formation: state of the art and implications in cosmology - marta volonteri   (Chambre du Trésorier)
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15:00 Supermassive black holes, gravitational waves and cosmology - Dr Alberto Sesana (Albert Einstein Institute)   (Chambre du Trésorier)
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15:30 Cosmology with the 21 cm line - Yi Mao (Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris)   (Chambre du Trésorier)
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16:00 Measuring relativistic effects with anti-symmetric galaxy correlations - Camille Bonvin (University of Cambridge)   (Chambre du Trésorier)
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16:20 --- Coffee Break ---
16:50 Dark Energy Survey: Status Report and Early Cluster Science - August Evrard (University of Michigan)   (Chambre du Trésorier)
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17:10 Cosmic variance on the local expansion rate. - Wessel Valkenburg (Leiden University)   (Chambre du Trésorier)
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17:30 Cosmology with photometric quasars - Mr Boris Leistedt (University College London)   (Chambre du Trésorier)
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17:50 Probing beyond standard model physics via Hawking radiated gravitational waves - Mr Tomohiro Fujita (Kavli IPMU, Tokyo University)   (Chambre du Trésorier)
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19:30 --- Banquet ---
12:30 --- Last Lunch ---