eLISA Cosmology Working Group Workshop

from Tuesday 14 April 2015 (08:00) to Friday 17 April 2015 (13:00)
CERN (4/3-006)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
14 Apr 2015
15 Apr 2015
16 Apr 2015
17 Apr 2015
AM
09:30 Welcome + Status of the mission - Pierre Binetruy  
10:30
First Order Phase Transitions (until 15:45)
10:30 Models with strong GW signature - Thomas Konstandin  
Slides
11:00 --- Coffee Break ---
11:30 Bubble wall velocity - Ariel Megevand  
Slides
12:00 GW from sound waves - Mark Hindmarsh  
Slides
12:30 GW from collision and turbulence - Ruth Durrer  
Slides
13:00 --- Lunch ---
14:30 The EWPT versus LHC constraints - Stephan Huber  
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15:00 Discussion on GW from IOPT - Daniel G. Figueroa (CERN)  
09:30
Topological defects (until 12:45)
09:30 Nambu Goto strings simulations - Josè Juan Blanco-Pillado  
Slides
10:00 Field theory cosmic strings - Jon Urrestilla  
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10:30 Strings and CMB - Christophe Ringeval  
Slides
11:00 --- Coffee Break ---
11:30 EPTA constraints on the GW from cosmic strings - Sotiris Sanidas  
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12:00 Cosmic strings discussion - Mark Hindmarsch Jose Juan Blanco-Pillado  
08:30
Tests of GR (until 12:45)
09:30 Testing GR with GW - Christopher Berry  
Slides
10:00 Testing GR with cosmology - Constantinos Skordis  
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10:30 Testing gravity theories with gravitational waves and compact objects: the case of Lorentz violating gravity - Enrico Barausse  
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11:00 --- Coffee break ---
11:30 Prospects of testing GR with GW detectors - Walter Del Pozzo  
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12:00 Testing GR discussion - Diego Blas Temino (CERN)  
09:30
Inflation and beyond (until 12:45)
09:30 Inflationary GW: prospects of measurement in the near future - Andrew Jaffe  
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10:00 GW signal from preheating - Arttu Rajantie  
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10:30 GW from particle production during inflation - Enrico Pajer  
11:00 --- Coffee break ---
11:30 GW from B-L PT - Valerie Domcke  
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12:00 Inflation and beyond discussion - Juan Garcia-Bellido (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid) Dr Eugene Lim (KCL)  
PM
15:45 --- Coffee Break ---
16:15
GW Detection and pathfinder (until 19:00)
16:15 Detection of a stochastic background and noise curves - Joe Romano  
Slides
17:15 eLISA noise curve - Antoine Petiteau  
Slides
17:45 LISA pathfinder - Martin Hewitson  
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18:15 Detection discussion  
12:45 --- Lunch ---
14:00 Colloquium - Bernard Schutz  
15:00 --- Coffee break ---
15:30
Standard Sirens (until 17:15)
15:30 Cosmology with standard sirens - Daniel Holz  
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16:00 GW Propagation in the inhomogeneous universe - Camille Bonvin  
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16:30 Standard sirens discussion  
18:30
Reception (until 21:00)
12:45 --- Lunch ---
14:30
Structure formation (until 16:15)
14:30 Structure formation and MBH merger events - Alberto Sesana  
Slides
15:00 GW and structure formation - Fabian Schmidt  
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15:30 Structure formation discussion - Vincent Desjacques (leads the discussion)  
16:15 --- Coffee break ---
16:45
Working subgroups discussion + summary (until 18:15)
12:45
Final summary (until 13:00)