Understanding the early Universe
from
Tuesday 6 January 2015 (10:00)
to
Friday 16 January 2015 (18:00)
Monday 5 January 2015
Tuesday 6 January 2015
14:00
What is the distance to the CMB?
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Ruth Durrer
(
University of Geneva
)
What is the distance to the CMB?
Ruth Durrer
(
University of Geneva
)
14:00 - 15:00
Room: 4/3-006 - TH Conference Room
15:00
Coffee break
Coffee break
15:00 - 15:30
Room: 4/2-011 - TH common room
15:30
Single vs multifield inflation “post” Planck
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Christian Byrnes
(
University of Sussex (GB)
)
Single vs multifield inflation “post” Planck
Christian Byrnes
(
University of Sussex (GB)
)
15:30 - 16:30
Room: 4/3-006 - TH Conference Room
Wednesday 7 January 2015
10:00
The Effective Field Theory of Large Scale Structures: the way to go for the early universe
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Leonardo Senatore
(
stanford university
)
The Effective Field Theory of Large Scale Structures: the way to go for the early universe
Leonardo Senatore
(
stanford university
)
10:00 - 11:00
Room: 4/3-006 - TH Conference Room
11:00
Coffee break
Coffee break
11:00 - 11:30
Room: 4/2-011 - TH common room
11:30
Universality classes and inflationary attractors
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Diederik Roest
(
University of Groningen
)
Universality classes and inflationary attractors
Diederik Roest
(
University of Groningen
)
11:30 - 12:30
Room: 4/3-006 - TH Conference Room
12:30
Free time
Free time
12:30 - 14:00
14:00
Planck parameter constraints
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Antony Lewis
(
University of Sussex
)
Planck parameter constraints
Antony Lewis
(
University of Sussex
)
14:00 - 15:00
Room: 4/3-006 - TH Conference Room
Theory seminar
15:00
Coffee
Coffee
15:00 - 15:30
Room: 4/2-011 - TH common room
15:30
Visit to LHCb experiment
Visit to LHCb experiment
15:30 - 18:00
18:00
Free time
Free time
18:00 - 19:00
19:00
Reception
Reception
19:00 - 20:00
Thursday 8 January 2015
10:00
Living beyond the edge: Higgs inflation and vacuum metastability
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Mikhail Shaposhnikov
(
EPFL
)
Living beyond the edge: Higgs inflation and vacuum metastability
Mikhail Shaposhnikov
(
EPFL
)
10:00 - 11:00
Room: 4/3-006 - TH Conference Room
11:00
Coffee break
Coffee break
11:00 - 11:30
Room: 4/2-011 - TH common room
11:30
How well can we constrain primordial non-Gaussianity with galaxy clustering ?
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Vincent Desjacques
(
University of Geneva
)
How well can we constrain primordial non-Gaussianity with galaxy clustering ?
Vincent Desjacques
(
University of Geneva
)
11:30 - 12:30
Room: 4/3-006 - TH Conference Room
12:30
Free time
Free time
12:30 - 14:00
14:00
Searching for general relativistic signatures on large scales
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Jinn-Ouk Gong
(
Asia Pacific Center for Theoretical Physics
)
Searching for general relativistic signatures on large scales
Jinn-Ouk Gong
(
Asia Pacific Center for Theoretical Physics
)
14:00 - 15:00
Room: 4/3-006 - TH Conference Room
15:00
Coffee
Coffee
15:00 - 15:30
Room: 4/2-011 - TH common room
15:30
Open discussion
Open discussion
15:30 - 16:30
Room: 4/2-011 - TH common room
Friday 9 January 2015
10:00
B-mode cosmology
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Paolo Creminelli
(
ICTP
)
B-mode cosmology
Paolo Creminelli
(
ICTP
)
10:00 - 11:00
Room: 4/3-006 - TH Conference Room
11:00
Coffee break
Coffee break
11:00 - 11:30
Room: 4/2-011 - TH common room
11:30
Did m2φ2 bite the dust? A closer look at ns and r
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Raphael Flauger
(
Carnegie Mellon University
)
Did m2φ2 bite the dust? A closer look at ns and r
Raphael Flauger
(
Carnegie Mellon University
)
11:30 - 12:30
Room: 4/3-006 - TH Conference Room
12:30
Free time
Free time
12:30 - 14:00
14:00
Open EFTs and Stochastic Inflation
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Clifford Burgess
(
High Energy Physics Group - McGill University
)
Open EFTs and Stochastic Inflation
Clifford Burgess
(
High Energy Physics Group - McGill University
)
14:00 - 15:00
Room: 4/3-006 - TH Conference Room
15:00
Coffee
Coffee
15:00 - 15:30
Room: 4/2-011 - TH common room
15:30
Open discussion
Open discussion
15:30 - 16:30
Room: 4/2-011 - TH common room
Saturday 10 January 2015
Sunday 11 January 2015
Monday 12 January 2015
10:00
CMB lensing at second order
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Camille Bonvin
(
CERN
)
CMB lensing at second order
Camille Bonvin
(
CERN
)
10:00 - 11:00
Room: 4/3-006 - TH Conference Room
11:00
Coffee break
Coffee break
11:00 - 11:30
Room: 4/2-011 - TH common room
11:30
21cm probes on particle dark matter
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Kenji Kadota
(
IBS Center for Theoretical Physics of the Universe
)
21cm probes on particle dark matter
Kenji Kadota
(
IBS Center for Theoretical Physics of the Universe
)
11:30 - 12:30
Room: 4/3-006 - TH Conference Room
12:30
Free time
Free time
12:30 - 14:00
14:00
Dark matter: How to kill a candidate and how to keep it alive
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Leszek Roszkowski
(
NCBJ, Poland
)
Dark matter: How to kill a candidate and how to keep it alive
Leszek Roszkowski
(
NCBJ, Poland
)
14:00 - 15:00
Room: 4/3-006 - TH Conference Room
15:00
Coffee
Coffee
15:00 - 15:30
Room: 4/2-011 - TH common room
15:30
Open discission
Open discission
15:30 - 16:30
Room: 4/2-011 - TH common room
16:30
Free time
Free time
16:30 - 19:00
19:00
Reception
Reception
19:00 - 20:00
Tuesday 13 January 2015
10:00
Cosmological constraints from present and future galaxy redshift surveys
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Enzo Branchini
(
University Roma Tre
)
Cosmological constraints from present and future galaxy redshift surveys
Enzo Branchini
(
University Roma Tre
)
10:00 - 11:00
Room: 4/3-006 - TH Conference Room
11:00
Coffee break
Coffee break
11:00 - 11:30
Room: 4/2-011 - TH common room
11:30
The structure of the low redshift Universe
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Adi Nusser
(
Technion- Israel Institute of Technology
)
The structure of the low redshift Universe
Adi Nusser
(
Technion- Israel Institute of Technology
)
11:30 - 12:30
Room: 4/3-006 - TH Conference Room
12:30
Free time
Free time
12:30 - 15:30
15:30
Visit to CMS
Visit to CMS
15:30 - 18:00
Wednesday 14 January 2015
10:00
Higgs instability during inflation and non-minimal coupling to gravity
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Arttu Rajantie
(
Imperial College Sci., Tech. & Med. (GB)
)
Higgs instability during inflation and non-minimal coupling to gravity
Arttu Rajantie
(
Imperial College Sci., Tech. & Med. (GB)
)
10:00 - 11:00
Room: 4/3-006 - TH Conference Room
11:00
Coffee break
Coffee break
11:00 - 11:30
Room: 4/2-011 - TH common room
11:30
A late-time interaction in the dark sector ?
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Alessandro Melchiorri
(
University of Rome Sapienza
)
A late-time interaction in the dark sector ?
Alessandro Melchiorri
(
University of Rome Sapienza
)
11:30 - 12:30
Room: 4/3-006 - TH Conference Room
Thursday 15 January 2015
10:00
How hot was the big bang? - Thermal backreaction and its effect on the reheating temperature
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Marco Drewes
(
TU Munich
)
How hot was the big bang? - Thermal backreaction and its effect on the reheating temperature
Marco Drewes
(
TU Munich
)
10:00 - 11:00
Room: 4/3-006 - TH Conference Room
11:00
Coffee
Coffee
11:00 - 11:30
Room: 4/2-011 - TH common room
11:30
Open discussion
Open discussion
11:30 - 12:30
Room: 4/2-011 - TH common room
Friday 16 January 2015
10:00
Large-field inflation - strings & pheno
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Alexander Westphal
(
DESY Hamburg
)
Large-field inflation - strings & pheno
Alexander Westphal
(
DESY Hamburg
)
10:00 - 11:00
Room: 4/3-006 - TH Conference Room
11:00
Coffee break
Coffee break
11:00 - 11:30
Room: 4/2-011 - TH common room
11:30
Planck CMB Anomalies: Astrophysical and Cosmological Foregrounds and the Curse of Masking
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Anais Rassat
(
EPFL
)
Planck CMB Anomalies: Astrophysical and Cosmological Foregrounds and the Curse of Masking
Anais Rassat
(
EPFL
)
11:30 - 12:30
Room: 4/3-006 - TH Conference Room