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 7 September 2009 (08:00) to Friday 11 September 2009 (13:00)

Monday 7 September 2009
09:00
09:00 - 12:45
Room: 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium
Contributions

09:00 Welcome address and practical information

09:15 Prospects for astroparticle physics - Christian Spiering (DESY, Hamburg)

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

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

12:00 Gravitational waves - Pierre Binetruy (APC, Paris)
14:15
14:15 - 18:15
Room: 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium
Contributions

14:15 Chameleons in Cosmology and Astrophysics - Clare Burrage

14:35 The Effective Theory of Quintessence: the w<-1 Side Unveiled - Paolo CREMINELLI (ICTP)

14:55 Do we live inside a big void? - Juan GARCIA-BELLIDO (Madrid)

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

15:35 Simulating dark interactions - Marco BALDI (ITP, Heidelberg University)

15:55 Scale dependent superluminal propagation as a key feature of modified gravity models - Antonio De Felice

16:35 Cascading gravity - Claudia DE RHAM (Perimeter / McMaster)

16:55 N-body Simulations of DGP and Degravitation - Mark WYMAN (Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics)

17:15 Non-linear Structure Formation in Modified Gravity Theories - Fabian SCHMIDT (University of Chicago)

17:35 The existence of relativistic stars in f(R) gravity - Amol UPADHYE (Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics, University of Chicago)

17:55 Testing General Relativity on Cosmological Scales with Weak Gravitational Lensing - Ali VANDERVELD (Caltech/JPL)
14:15 - 18:15
Room: TH Theory Conference Room
Contributions

14:15 Indirect Dark Matter searches with the PAMELA experiment: a wide range cosmic ray observatory - Oscar ADRIANI (Universita' di Firenze and INFN Firenze)

14:30 Indirect dark matter searches with imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes - Emmanuel MOULIN (CEA Saclay, Irfu)

14:45 Motivations for a New Force in the Dark Sector - Tracy SLATYER (Harvard University)

15:00 Cosmic Rays from Dark Matter Decay - David TRAN (Technical University of Munich)

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

15:30 Constraints on annihilating Dark Matter from reionization and extragalactic gamma background - Andi HEKTOR (NICPB, Tallin)

15:45 Constraints on Dark Matter models with large annihilation cross sections from the Early Universe - Fabio IOCCO (IPhT at CEA/Saclay; IAP Paris)

16:25 The Constrained NMSSM in the light of a bayesian analysis - Daniel LOPEZ-FOGLIANI (University of Sheffield)

16:40 Scalar Dark Matter from Inert Doublet Model - Laura LOPEZ-HONOREZ (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid)

16:55 Sterile neutrinos as dark matter - Kalliopi PETRAKI (UCLA)

17:10 DAMA/LIBRA and leptonically interacting Dark Matter - Thomas SCHWETZ (Max-Planck-Institute)

17:25 A novel determination of the local dark matter density - Riccardo CATENA (SISSA)

17:40 Dark Stars- Dark Matter and shaping the first Stars - Douglas SPOLYAR (Fermi Lab)

17:55 Higgs in Space! - Marco TAOSO (University of Padova)
18:15

18:15 - 20:00
Room: Main building
Tuesday 8 September 2009
09:15
09:15 - 12:45
Room: 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium
Contributions

09:15 Prospects for CMB observations - Hiranya Peiris (Cambridge)

10:00 Status of inflation - Andrew Liddle

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

12:00 The Search for Dark Matter with Neutrinos - Francis Halzen (Wisconsin)
14:15
14:15 - 18:28
Room: 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium
Contributions

14:15 Scale dependent bias in the bispectrum of galaxies from primordial non-gaussianity - Kazuya Koyama

14:38 Non-gaussianity of the CMB:primordial vs non-linearities - Nicola Bartolo

15:01 Peculiar velocities into the next generation: cosmological parameters from the SFI++ survey - Alexandra Abate

15:21 Cross correlation of the lyman-alpha forest and CMB lensing - Alberto Vallinotto

15:41 Two-minute presentations of selected posters - Martins bonvin

16:25 New measurements of the temperature and polarization of the CMB from QUaD - Michael Brown

16:45 Small scale cosmological structure - Kevork Abazajian

17:05 Cosmological constraints from the clustering of SDSS DR7 luminous red galaxies - Beth Reid

17:25 Cosmic transparency and consistency among distance measures - Anastasios Avgoustidis

17:38 The high-redshift ISW - Jun-Quing Xia

17:51 Two-minute presentations of selected posters - D'Amico Fauvet Fraisse
14:15 - 18:27
Room: TH Theory Conference Room
Contributions

14:15 Non-local cosmological models from String Field Theory - Alexey KOSHELEV

14:34 Gaugino condensation in the early universe - Marieke Postma

14:53 Circumventing the Eta problem - Ruth Gregory

15:12 Combined local and equilateral non-Gaussianities in multifield DBI inflation - Sebastien Renaux-Petel

15:31 Brane inflation and the overshoot problem - Simeon Bird

15:50 Alleviating the Fine-Tuning of Brane-Antibrane Inflation Models - Loison Hoi

16:35 Strings across Kasner singularities - Gustavo Niz

16:54 Curvatons in Warped Throats - Takeshi Kobayashi

17:13 Cosmological Fluctuations From Infra-Red Cascading During Inflation - Neil Barnaby

17:32 Gravitational waves from broken cosmic superstrings: The bursts and the Beads - Benjamin Shlaer

17:51 On the full trispectrum in multi-field DBI inflation - Shuntaro Mizuno
Wednesday 9 September 2009
09:00
09:00 - 13:15
Room: 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium
Contributions

09:00 Identification of Dark Matter candidates - Gianfranco Bertone (IAP, Paris)

09:45 Indirect search for Dark Matter: experiments - Michael Schubnell (Michigan)

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

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

12:30 Neutrinos and other light relics - Steen Hannestad (Unknown)
15:30

15:30 - 16:30
Room: 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium

18:30

18:30 - 20:30
Room: Geneva University
Thursday 10 September 2009
08:30
08:30 - 12:45
Room: 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium
Contributions

08:30 Large Scale Structure in the Intergalactic Medium - Matteo Viel

09:15 Non-linear structure formation: analytical approach - Roman Scoccimarro (New York U.)

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

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

12:00 Probing Dark Energy and Dark Matter with Weak Lensing - Alexandre Refregier (CEA, Saclay)
14:15
14:15 - 18:15
Room: 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium
Contributions

14:15 Inflation and the Higgs boson - Fedor Bezrukov (Heidelberg)

14:30 Breaking the scale invariance of the primordial spectrum in Horava-Lifshitz Cosmology - Tsutomu Kobayashi (Waseda)

14:45 Bispectrum and Trispectrum of curvature perturbations from primordial non-Abelian vector fields - Emanuela Dimastrogiovanni (Padova)

15:00 Lorentz boost and non-Gaussianity in multi-field DBI-inflation - Frederico Arroja (Yukawa, Kyoto)

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

15:30 Constraints on primordial density perturbations from induced gravitational waves - Hoshyar Asadollahi (Portsmouth)

15:45 Large non-Gaussianity from slow-roll inflation - Christian Byrnes (Heidelberg)

16:30 Gauge singlet scalar as inflaton and dark matter - Rose Lerner (Lancaster)

16:45 The subdominant curvaton - Taanila Olli (Helsinki)

17:00 Numerical simulations of second order perturbations - Ian Huston (Queen Mary, London)

17:15 Initial conditions space in F-term SUGRA inflation: Exploration by MCMC technique - Sebastien Clesse (Brussels)

17:30 k-essence models of unified inflation, dark matter and dark energy - Archan Majumdar (Bose National Center, Kolkata)

17:45 Gravitational waves from the non-perturbative decay of supersymmetric flat directions - Jean-Francois Dufaux (UAM, Madrid)
14:15 - 18:35
Room: TH Theory Conference Room
Contributions

14:15 Recent developments in leptogenesis - Enrico Nardi

14:35 Testing leptogenesis at LHC - Steve Blanchet

14:55 Flavoured leptogenesis - Sergei Petcov

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

15:35 Towards analyzing leptogenesis in the Kadanoff-Baym formalism - Alexander Kartavtsev

15:55 Electroweak baryogenesis in the MSSM - Germano Nardini

16:35 Bubble growth and production of kinetic energy in first order Phase Transitions - Jose Miguel No

16:55 BBN constraints on strong relic particles - Motohiko Kusakabe

17:15 Dark strings - Tanmay Vachaspati

17:35 Coupled currents in cosmic strings - Marc Lilley

17:55 Sizable CP violation in the bosonic Standard Model - Thomas Konstandin

18:15 Gravitational waves from phase transitions - Chiara Caprini
Friday 11 September 2009
09:00
09:00 - 12:45
Room: 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium
Contributions

09:00 Big Bang Nucleosynthesis - Karsten Jedamzik (Montpellier)

09:45 Dark Energy - Andrew Tolley (Perimeter)

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

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

12:30 Concluding remarks and COSMO'10 announcement

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