Understanding the early Universe

from Tuesday, 6 January 2015 (10:00) to Friday, 16 January 2015 (18:00)
CERN

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