eLISA Cosmology Working Group Workshop

from Tuesday, April 14, 2015 (8:00 AM) to Friday, April 17, 2015 (1:00 PM)
CERN (4/3-006)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
Apr 14, 2015
Apr 15, 2015
Apr 16, 2015
Apr 17, 2015
AM
9:30 AM Welcome + Status of the mission - Pierre Binetruy  
10:30 AM
First Order Phase Transitions (until 3:45 PM)
10:30 AM Models with strong GW signature - Thomas Konstandin  
Slides
11:00 AM --- Coffee Break ---
11:30 AM Bubble wall velocity - Ariel Megevand  
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12:00 PM GW from sound waves - Mark Hindmarsh  
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12:30 PM GW from collision and turbulence - Ruth Durrer  
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1:00 PM --- Lunch ---
2:30 PM The EWPT versus LHC constraints - Stephan Huber  
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3:00 PM Discussion on GW from IOPT - Daniel G. Figueroa (CERN)  
9:30 AM
Topological defects (until 12:45 PM)
9:30 AM Nambu Goto strings simulations - Josè Juan Blanco-Pillado  
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10:00 AM Field theory cosmic strings - Jon Urrestilla  
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10:30 AM Strings and CMB - Christophe Ringeval  
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11:00 AM --- Coffee Break ---
11:30 AM EPTA constraints on the GW from cosmic strings - Sotiris Sanidas  
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12:00 PM Cosmic strings discussion - Mark Hindmarsch Jose Juan Blanco-Pillado  
8:30 AM
Tests of GR (until 12:45 PM)
9:30 AM Testing GR with GW - Christopher Berry  
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10:00 AM Testing GR with cosmology - Constantinos Skordis  
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10:30 AM Testing gravity theories with gravitational waves and compact objects: the case of Lorentz violating gravity - Enrico Barausse  
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11:00 AM --- Coffee break ---
11:30 AM Prospects of testing GR with GW detectors - Walter Del Pozzo  
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12:00 PM Testing GR discussion - Diego Blas Temino (CERN)  
9:30 AM
Inflation and beyond (until 12:45 PM)
9:30 AM Inflationary GW: prospects of measurement in the near future - Andrew Jaffe  
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10:00 AM GW signal from preheating - Arttu Rajantie  
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10:30 AM GW from particle production during inflation - Enrico Pajer  
11:00 AM --- Coffee break ---
11:30 AM GW from B-L PT - Valerie Domcke  
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12:00 PM Inflation and beyond discussion - Juan Garcia-Bellido (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid) Dr Eugene Lim (KCL)  
PM
3:45 PM --- Coffee Break ---
4:15 PM
GW Detection and pathfinder (until 7:00 PM)
4:15 PM Detection of a stochastic background and noise curves - Joe Romano  
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5:15 PM eLISA noise curve - Antoine Petiteau  
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5:45 PM LISA pathfinder - Martin Hewitson  
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6:15 PM Detection discussion  
12:45 PM --- Lunch ---
2:00 PM Colloquium - Bernard Schutz  
3:00 PM --- Coffee break ---
3:30 PM
Standard Sirens (until 5:15 PM)
3:30 PM Cosmology with standard sirens - Daniel Holz  
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4:00 PM GW Propagation in the inhomogeneous universe - Camille Bonvin  
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4:30 PM Standard sirens discussion  
6:30 PM
Reception (until 9:00 PM)
12:45 PM --- Lunch ---
2:30 PM
Structure formation (until 4:15 PM)
2:30 PM Structure formation and MBH merger events - Alberto Sesana  
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3:00 PM GW and structure formation - Fabian Schmidt  
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3:30 PM Structure formation discussion - Vincent Desjacques (leads the discussion)  
4:15 PM --- Coffee break ---
4:45 PM
Working subgroups discussion + summary (until 6:15 PM)
12:45 PM
Final summary (until 1:00 PM)