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)
CERN (500/1-001)

: Sessions

: Talks

: Breaks

Sep 7, 2009

Sep 8, 2009

Sep 9, 2009

Sep 10, 2009

Sep 11, 2009

9:00 AM	Plenary I (until 12:45 PM) (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)
9:00 AM	Welcome address and practical information (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)
9:15 AM	Prospects for astroparticle physics - Christian Spiering (DESY, Hamburg) (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium) Slides
10:00 AM	LHC prospects for cosmology - Jonathan Feng (U. of California, Irvine) (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium) Slides
10:45 AM	--- Coffea break ---
11:15 AM	Status of the Planck satellite - François Bouchet (IAP, Paris) (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium) Slides
12:00 PM	Gravitational waves - Pierre Binetruy (APC, Paris) (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium) Slides

9:15 AM	Plenary II (until 12:45 PM) (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)
9:15 AM	Prospects for CMB observations - Hiranya Peiris (Cambridge) (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium) Slides
10:00 AM	Status of inflation - Andrew Liddle (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium) Slides
10:45 AM	--- Coffea break ---
11:15 AM	Recent results from the Pierre Auger Observatory - Johannes Knapp (Leeds) (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium) Slides
12:00 PM	The Search for Dark Matter with Neutrinos - Francis Halzen (Wisconsin) (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium) Slides

9:00 AM	Plenary III (until 1:15 PM) (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)
9:00 AM	Identification of Dark Matter candidates - Gianfranco Bertone (IAP, Paris) (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium) Slides
9:45 AM	Indirect search for Dark Matter: experiments - Michael Schubnell (Michigan) (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium) Slides
10:30 AM	Update on Direct searches for Dark Matter - Neil Spooner (Sheffield) (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium) Slides
11:15 AM	--- Coffee break ---
11:45 AM	Indirect search for Dark Matter: interpretation - Pierre Salati (LAPTH, Annecy) (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium) Slides
12:30 PM	Neutrinos and other light relics - Steen Hannestad (Unknown) (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium) Slides

8:30 AM	Plenary IV (until 12:45 PM) (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)
8:30 AM	Large Scale Structure in the Intergalactic Medium - Matteo Viel (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium) Slides
9:15 AM	Non-linear structure formation: analytical approach - Roman Scoccimarro (New York U.) (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium) Slides
10:00 AM	Non-linear stucture formation: simulations - Juerg Diemand (Lick Observatory, California) (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium) Slides
10:45 AM	--- Coffea break ---
11:15 AM	Observation of large scale structure: galaxy power spectrum - Will Percival (Portsmouth) (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium) Slides
12:00 PM	Probing Dark Energy and Dark Matter with Weak Lensing - Alexandre Refregier (CEA, Saclay) (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium) Slides

9:00 AM	Plenary V (until 12:45 PM) (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)
9:00 AM	Big Bang Nucleosynthesis - Karsten Jedamzik (Montpellier) (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium) Slides
9:45 AM	Dark Energy - Andrew Tolley (Perimeter) (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium) Slides
10:30 AM	--- Coffea break ---
11:00 AM	Modified gravity - Gregory Gabadadze (New York U.) (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium) Slides
11:45 AM	Accelerated expansion from structure formation - Suksy Rasanen (Geneva U.) (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium) Slides
12:30 PM	Concluding remarks and COSMO'10 announcement (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)

2:15 PM	Dark Energy and Modified Gravity (until 6:15 PM) (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)
2:15 PM	Chameleons in Cosmology and Astrophysics - Clare Burrage (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium) Slides
2:35 PM	The Effective Theory of Quintessence: the w<-1 Side Unveiled - Paolo CREMINELLI (ICTP) (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium) Slides
2:55 PM	Do we live inside a big void? - Juan GARCIA-BELLIDO (Madrid) (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium) Slides
3:15 PM	Constraining the dark fluid - David PARKINSON (University of Sussex) (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium) Slides
3:35 PM	Simulating dark interactions - Marco BALDI (ITP, Heidelberg University) (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium) Slides
3:55 PM	Scale dependent superluminal propagation as a key feature of modified gravity models - Antonio De Felice (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium) Slides
4:15 PM	--- Break ---
4:35 PM	Cascading gravity - Claudia DE RHAM (Perimeter / McMaster) (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium) Slides
4:55 PM	N-body Simulations of DGP and Degravitation - Mark WYMAN (Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics) (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium) Slides
5:15 PM	Non-linear Structure Formation in Modified Gravity Theories - Fabian SCHMIDT (University of Chicago) (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium) Slides
5:35 PM	The existence of relativistic stars in f(R) gravity - Amol UPADHYE (Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics, University of Chicago) (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium) Slides
5:55 PM	Testing General Relativity on Cosmological Scales with Weak Gravitational Lensing - Ali VANDERVELD (Caltech/JPL) (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)
2:15 PM	Dark Matter (until 6:15 PM) (TH Theory Conference Room)
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) (TH Theory Conference Room) Slides
2:30 PM	Indirect dark matter searches with imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes - Emmanuel MOULIN (CEA Saclay, Irfu) (TH Theory Conference Room) Slides
2:45 PM	Motivations for a New Force in the Dark Sector - Tracy SLATYER (Harvard University) (TH Theory Conference Room) Slides
3:00 PM	Cosmic Rays from Dark Matter Decay - David TRAN (Technical University of Munich) (TH Theory Conference Room) Slides
3:15 PM	Galactic evolution and dark matter stability - Francesc FERRER (Washington University in St Louis) (TH Theory Conference Room) Slides
3:30 PM	Constraints on annihilating Dark Matter from reionization and extragalactic gamma background - Andi HEKTOR (NICPB, Tallin) (TH Theory Conference Room) Slides
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) (TH Theory Conference Room) Slides
4:00 PM	--- Break ---
4:25 PM	The Constrained NMSSM in the light of a bayesian analysis - Daniel LOPEZ-FOGLIANI (University of Sheffield) (TH Theory Conference Room) Slides
4:40 PM	Scalar Dark Matter from Inert Doublet Model - Laura LOPEZ-HONOREZ (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid) (TH Theory Conference Room) Slides
4:55 PM	Sterile neutrinos as dark matter - Kalliopi PETRAKI (UCLA) (TH Theory Conference Room) Slides
5:10 PM	DAMA/LIBRA and leptonically interacting Dark Matter - Thomas SCHWETZ (Max-Planck-Institute) (TH Theory Conference Room) Slides
5:25 PM	A novel determination of the local dark matter density - Riccardo CATENA (SISSA) (TH Theory Conference Room) Slides
5:40 PM	Dark Stars- Dark Matter and shaping the first Stars - Douglas SPOLYAR (Fermi Lab) (TH Theory Conference Room) Slides
5:55 PM	Higgs in Space! - Marco TAOSO (University of Padova) (TH Theory Conference Room) Slides
6:15 PM	Reception (until 8:00 PM) (Main building)

2:15 PM	CMB, LSS, cosmological models and parameters (until 6:28 PM) (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)
2:15 PM	Scale dependent bias in the bispectrum of galaxies from primordial non-gaussianity - Dr Kazuya Koyama (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium) Slides
2:38 PM	Non-gaussianity of the CMB:primordial vs non-linearities - Dr Nicola Bartolo (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium) Slides
3:01 PM	Peculiar velocities into the next generation: cosmological parameters from the SFI++ survey - Dr Alexandra Abate (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium) Slides
3:21 PM	Cross correlation of the lyman-alpha forest and CMB lensing - Dr Alberto Vallinotto (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium) Slides
3:41 PM	Two-minute presentations of selected posters - Martins bonvin (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)
3:55 PM	--- Break ---
4:25 PM	New measurements of the temperature and polarization of the CMB from QUaD - Dr Michael Brown (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium) Slides
4:45 PM	Small scale cosmological structure - Prof. Kevork Abazajian (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium) Slides
5:05 PM	Cosmological constraints from the clustering of SDSS DR7 luminous red galaxies - Dr Beth Reid (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium) Slides
5:25 PM	Cosmic transparency and consistency among distance measures - Dr Anastasios Avgoustidis (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium) Slides
5:38 PM	The high-redshift ISW - Jun-Quing Xia (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium) Slides
5:51 PM	Two-minute presentations of selected posters - Fraisse Fauvet D'Amico (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)
2:15 PM	String Cosmology (until 6:27 PM) (TH Theory Conference Room)
2:15 PM	Non-local cosmological models from String Field Theory - Alexey KOSHELEV (TH Theory Conference Room)
2:34 PM	Gaugino condensation in the early universe - Marieke Postma (TH Theory Conference Room)
2:53 PM	Circumventing the Eta problem - Ruth Gregory (TH Theory Conference Room)
3:12 PM	Combined local and equilateral non-Gaussianities in multifield DBI inflation - Sebastien Renaux-Petel (TH Theory Conference Room)
3:31 PM	Brane inflation and the overshoot problem - Simeon Bird (TH Theory Conference Room)
3:50 PM	Alleviating the Fine-Tuning of Brane-Antibrane Inflation Models - Loison Hoi (TH Theory Conference Room)
4:10 PM	--- Break ---
4:35 PM	Strings across Kasner singularities - Gustavo Niz (TH Theory Conference Room)
4:54 PM	Curvatons in Warped Throats - Takeshi Kobayashi (TH Theory Conference Room)
5:13 PM	Cosmological Fluctuations From Infra-Red Cascading During Inflation - Neil Barnaby (TH Theory Conference Room)
5:32 PM	Gravitational waves from broken cosmic superstrings: The bursts and the Beads - Benjamin Shlaer (TH Theory Conference Room)
5:51 PM	On the full trispectrum in multi-field DBI inflation - Shuntaro Mizuno (TH Theory Conference Room)

3:30 PM	CERN Colloquium by Pr. Steven Hawking (until 4:30 PM) (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)
6:30 PM	Social event: Attribution of the Tomalla Prize 2009 for gravity research to Viatcheslav Mukhanov and Alexei Starobinsky at Geneva University (ceremony, talks, aperitif) (until 8:30 PM) (Geneva University)

2:15 PM	Inflation (until 6:15 PM) (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)
2:15 PM	Inflation and the Higgs boson - Dr Fedor Bezrukov (Heidelberg) (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium) Slides
2:30 PM	Breaking the scale invariance of the primordial spectrum in Horava-Lifshitz Cosmology - Dr Tsutomu Kobayashi (Waseda) (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium) Slides
2:45 PM	Bispectrum and Trispectrum of curvature perturbations from primordial non-Abelian vector fields - Emanuela Dimastrogiovanni (Padova) (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium) Slides
3:00 PM	Lorentz boost and non-Gaussianity in multi-field DBI-inflation - Dr Frederico Arroja (Yukawa, Kyoto) (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium) Slides
3:15 PM	Instability of cosmological models with nonminimally coupled vector fields - Mr Burak Himmetoglu (Minnesota) (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium) Slides
3:30 PM	Constraints on primordial density perturbations from induced gravitational waves - Mr Hoshyar Asadollahi (Portsmouth) (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium) Slides
3:45 PM	Large non-Gaussianity from slow-roll inflation - Dr Christian Byrnes (Heidelberg) (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium) Slides
4:00 PM	--- Break ---
4:30 PM	Gauge singlet scalar as inflaton and dark matter - Ms Rose Lerner (Lancaster) (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium) Slides
4:45 PM	The subdominant curvaton - Mr Taanila Olli (Helsinki) (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium) Slides
5:00 PM	Numerical simulations of second order perturbations - Mr Ian Huston (Queen Mary, London) (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium) Slides
5:15 PM	Initial conditions space in F-term SUGRA inflation: Exploration by MCMC technique - Mr Sebastien Clesse (Brussels) (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium) Slides
5:30 PM	k-essence models of unified inflation, dark matter and dark energy - Dr Archan Majumdar (Bose National Center, Kolkata) (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium) Slides
5:45 PM	Gravitational waves from the non-perturbative decay of supersymmetric flat directions - Dr Jean-Francois Dufaux (UAM, Madrid) (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium) Slides
6:00 PM	--- Session ends ---
2:15 PM	Particle physics in the early universe (until 6:35 PM) (TH Theory Conference Room) slides
2:15 PM	Recent developments in leptogenesis - Enrico Nardi (TH Theory Conference Room) Slides
2:35 PM	Testing leptogenesis at LHC - Steve Blanchet (TH Theory Conference Room) Slides
2:55 PM	Flavoured leptogenesis - Sergei Petcov (TH Theory Conference Room) Slides
3:15 PM	Probing SUSY leptogenesis with mu->e gamma - Cristoforo Simonetto (TH Theory Conference Room) Slides
3:35 PM	Towards analyzing leptogenesis in the Kadanoff-Baym formalism - Alexander Kartavtsev (TH Theory Conference Room) Slides
3:55 PM	Electroweak baryogenesis in the MSSM - Germano Nardini (TH Theory Conference Room) Slides
4:15 PM	--- Break ---
4:35 PM	Bubble growth and production of kinetic energy in first order Phase Transitions - Mr Jose Miguel No (TH Theory Conference Room) Slides
4:55 PM	BBN constraints on strong relic particles - Motohiko Kusakabe (TH Theory Conference Room) Slides
5:15 PM	Dark strings - Tanmay Vachaspati (TH Theory Conference Room) Slides
5:35 PM	Coupled currents in cosmic strings - Marc Lilley (TH Theory Conference Room) Slides
5:55 PM	Sizable CP violation in the bosonic Standard Model - Thomas Konstandin (TH Theory Conference Room) Slides
6:15 PM	Gravitational waves from phase transitions - Chiara Caprini (TH Theory Conference Room) Slides

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