Name: COSMO 09
Start: 2009-09-07T08:00:00+02:00
End: 2009-09-11T13:00:00+02:00
Location: CERN

COSMO 09

from Monday, September 7, 2009 (8:00 AM) to Friday, September 11, 2009 (1:00 PM)

Monday, September 7, 2009
9:00 AM
9:00 AM - 12:45 PM
Room: 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium
Contributions

9:00 AM Welcome address and practical information

9:15 AM Prospects for astroparticle physics - Christian Spiering (DESY, Hamburg)

10:00 AM LHC prospects for cosmology - Jonathan Feng (U. of California, Irvine)

11:15 AM Status of the Planck satellite - François Bouchet (IAP, Paris)

12:00 PM Gravitational waves - Pierre Binetruy (APC, Paris)
2:15 PM
2:15 PM - 6:15 PM
Room: 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium
Contributions

2:15 PM Chameleons in Cosmology and Astrophysics - Clare Burrage

2:35 PM The Effective Theory of Quintessence: the w<-1 Side Unveiled - Paolo CREMINELLI (ICTP)

2:55 PM Do we live inside a big void? - Juan GARCIA-BELLIDO (Madrid)

3:15 PM Constraining the dark fluid - David PARKINSON (University of Sussex)

3:35 PM Simulating dark interactions - Marco BALDI (ITP, Heidelberg University)

3:55 PM Scale dependent superluminal propagation as a key feature of modified gravity models - Antonio De Felice

4:35 PM Cascading gravity - Claudia DE RHAM (Perimeter / McMaster)

4:55 PM N-body Simulations of DGP and Degravitation - Mark WYMAN (Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics)

5:15 PM Non-linear Structure Formation in Modified Gravity Theories - Fabian SCHMIDT (University of Chicago)

5:35 PM The existence of relativistic stars in f(R) gravity - Amol UPADHYE (Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics, University of Chicago)

5:55 PM Testing General Relativity on Cosmological Scales with Weak Gravitational Lensing - Ali VANDERVELD (Caltech/JPL)
2:15 PM - 6:15 PM
Room: TH Theory Conference Room
Contributions

2:15 PM Indirect Dark Matter searches with the PAMELA experiment: a wide range cosmic ray observatory - Oscar ADRIANI (Universita' di Firenze and INFN Firenze)

2:30 PM Indirect dark matter searches with imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes - Emmanuel MOULIN (CEA Saclay, Irfu)

2:45 PM Motivations for a New Force in the Dark Sector - Tracy SLATYER (Harvard University)

3:00 PM Cosmic Rays from Dark Matter Decay - David TRAN (Technical University of Munich)

3:15 PM Galactic evolution and dark matter stability - Francesc FERRER (Washington University in St Louis)

3:30 PM Constraints on annihilating Dark Matter from reionization and extragalactic gamma background - Andi HEKTOR (NICPB, Tallin)

3:45 PM Constraints on Dark Matter models with large annihilation cross sections from the Early Universe - Fabio IOCCO (IPhT at CEA/Saclay; IAP Paris)

4:25 PM The Constrained NMSSM in the light of a bayesian analysis - Daniel LOPEZ-FOGLIANI (University of Sheffield)

4:40 PM Scalar Dark Matter from Inert Doublet Model - Laura LOPEZ-HONOREZ (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid)

4:55 PM Sterile neutrinos as dark matter - Kalliopi PETRAKI (UCLA)

5:10 PM DAMA/LIBRA and leptonically interacting Dark Matter - Thomas SCHWETZ (Max-Planck-Institute)

5:25 PM A novel determination of the local dark matter density - Riccardo CATENA (SISSA)

5:40 PM Dark Stars- Dark Matter and shaping the first Stars - Douglas SPOLYAR (Fermi Lab)

5:55 PM Higgs in Space! - Marco TAOSO (University of Padova)
6:15 PM

6:15 PM - 8:00 PM
Room: Main building
Tuesday, September 8, 2009
9:15 AM
9:15 AM - 12:45 PM
Room: 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium
Contributions

9:15 AM Prospects for CMB observations - Hiranya Peiris (Cambridge)

10:00 AM Status of inflation - Andrew Liddle

11:15 AM Recent results from the Pierre Auger Observatory - Johannes Knapp (Leeds)

12:00 PM The Search for Dark Matter with Neutrinos - Francis Halzen (Wisconsin)
2:15 PM
2:15 PM - 6:28 PM
Room: 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium
Contributions

2:15 PM Scale dependent bias in the bispectrum of galaxies from primordial non-gaussianity - Kazuya Koyama

2:38 PM Non-gaussianity of the CMB:primordial vs non-linearities - Nicola Bartolo

3:01 PM Peculiar velocities into the next generation: cosmological parameters from the SFI++ survey - Alexandra Abate

3:21 PM Cross correlation of the lyman-alpha forest and CMB lensing - Alberto Vallinotto

3:41 PM Two-minute presentations of selected posters - Martins bonvin

4:25 PM New measurements of the temperature and polarization of the CMB from QUaD - Michael Brown

4:45 PM Small scale cosmological structure - Kevork Abazajian

5:05 PM Cosmological constraints from the clustering of SDSS DR7 luminous red galaxies - Beth Reid

5:25 PM Cosmic transparency and consistency among distance measures - Anastasios Avgoustidis

5:38 PM The high-redshift ISW - Jun-Quing Xia

5:51 PM Two-minute presentations of selected posters - D'Amico Fauvet Fraisse
2:15 PM - 6:27 PM
Room: TH Theory Conference Room
Contributions

2:15 PM Non-local cosmological models from String Field Theory - Alexey KOSHELEV

2:34 PM Gaugino condensation in the early universe - Marieke Postma

2:53 PM Circumventing the Eta problem - Ruth Gregory

3:12 PM Combined local and equilateral non-Gaussianities in multifield DBI inflation - Sebastien Renaux-Petel

3:31 PM Brane inflation and the overshoot problem - Simeon Bird

3:50 PM Alleviating the Fine-Tuning of Brane-Antibrane Inflation Models - Loison Hoi

4:35 PM Strings across Kasner singularities - Gustavo Niz

4:54 PM Curvatons in Warped Throats - Takeshi Kobayashi

5:13 PM Cosmological Fluctuations From Infra-Red Cascading During Inflation - Neil Barnaby

5:32 PM Gravitational waves from broken cosmic superstrings: The bursts and the Beads - Benjamin Shlaer

5:51 PM On the full trispectrum in multi-field DBI inflation - Shuntaro Mizuno
Wednesday, September 9, 2009
9:00 AM
9:00 AM - 1:15 PM
Room: 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium
Contributions

9:00 AM Identification of Dark Matter candidates - Gianfranco Bertone (IAP, Paris)

9:45 AM Indirect search for Dark Matter: experiments - Michael Schubnell (Michigan)

10:30 AM Update on Direct searches for Dark Matter - Neil Spooner (Sheffield)

11:45 AM Indirect search for Dark Matter: interpretation - Pierre Salati (LAPTH, Annecy)

12:30 PM Neutrinos and other light relics - Steen Hannestad (Unknown)
3:30 PM

3:30 PM - 4:30 PM
Room: 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium

6:30 PM

6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
Room: Geneva University
Thursday, September 10, 2009
8:30 AM
8:30 AM - 12:45 PM
Room: 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium
Contributions

8:30 AM Large Scale Structure in the Intergalactic Medium - Matteo Viel

9:15 AM Non-linear structure formation: analytical approach - Roman Scoccimarro (New York U.)

10:00 AM Non-linear stucture formation: simulations - Juerg Diemand (Lick Observatory, California)

11:15 AM Observation of large scale structure: galaxy power spectrum - Will Percival (Portsmouth)

12:00 PM Probing Dark Energy and Dark Matter with Weak Lensing - Alexandre Refregier (CEA, Saclay)
2:15 PM
2:15 PM - 6:15 PM
Room: 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium
Contributions

2:15 PM Inflation and the Higgs boson - Fedor Bezrukov (Heidelberg)

2:30 PM Breaking the scale invariance of the primordial spectrum in Horava-Lifshitz Cosmology - Tsutomu Kobayashi (Waseda)

2:45 PM Bispectrum and Trispectrum of curvature perturbations from primordial non-Abelian vector fields - Emanuela Dimastrogiovanni (Padova)

3:00 PM Lorentz boost and non-Gaussianity in multi-field DBI-inflation - Frederico Arroja (Yukawa, Kyoto)

3:15 PM Instability of cosmological models with nonminimally coupled vector fields - Burak Himmetoglu (Minnesota)

3:30 PM Constraints on primordial density perturbations from induced gravitational waves - Hoshyar Asadollahi (Portsmouth)

3:45 PM Large non-Gaussianity from slow-roll inflation - Christian Byrnes (Heidelberg)

4:30 PM Gauge singlet scalar as inflaton and dark matter - Rose Lerner (Lancaster)

4:45 PM The subdominant curvaton - Taanila Olli (Helsinki)

5:00 PM Numerical simulations of second order perturbations - Ian Huston (Queen Mary, London)

5:15 PM Initial conditions space in F-term SUGRA inflation: Exploration by MCMC technique - Sebastien Clesse (Brussels)

5:30 PM k-essence models of unified inflation, dark matter and dark energy - Archan Majumdar (Bose National Center, Kolkata)

5:45 PM Gravitational waves from the non-perturbative decay of supersymmetric flat directions - Jean-Francois Dufaux (UAM, Madrid)
2:15 PM - 6:35 PM
Room: TH Theory Conference Room
Contributions

2:15 PM Recent developments in leptogenesis - Enrico Nardi

2:35 PM Testing leptogenesis at LHC - Steve Blanchet

2:55 PM Flavoured leptogenesis - Sergei Petcov

3:15 PM Probing SUSY leptogenesis with mu->e gamma - Cristoforo Simonetto

3:35 PM Towards analyzing leptogenesis in the Kadanoff-Baym formalism - Alexander Kartavtsev

3:55 PM Electroweak baryogenesis in the MSSM - Germano Nardini

4:35 PM Bubble growth and production of kinetic energy in first order Phase Transitions - Jose Miguel No

4:55 PM BBN constraints on strong relic particles - Motohiko Kusakabe

5:15 PM Dark strings - Tanmay Vachaspati

5:35 PM Coupled currents in cosmic strings - Marc Lilley

5:55 PM Sizable CP violation in the bosonic Standard Model - Thomas Konstandin

6:15 PM Gravitational waves from phase transitions - Chiara Caprini
Friday, September 11, 2009
9:00 AM
9:00 AM - 12:45 PM
Room: 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium
Contributions

9:00 AM Big Bang Nucleosynthesis - Karsten Jedamzik (Montpellier)

9:45 AM Dark Energy - Andrew Tolley (Perimeter)

11:00 AM Modified gravity - Gregory Gabadadze (New York U.)

11:45 AM Accelerated expansion from structure formation - Suksy Rasanen (Geneva U.)

12:30 PM Concluding remarks and COSMO'10 announcement

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