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)
CERN (500/1-001)

: Sessions

: Talks

: Breaks

7 Sept 2009

8 Sept 2009

9 Sept 2009

10 Sept 2009

11 Sept 2009

09:00	Plenary I (until 12:45)
09:00	Welcome address and practical information
09:15	Prospects for astroparticle physics - Christian Spiering (DESY, Hamburg) Slides
10:00	LHC prospects for cosmology - Jonathan Feng (U. of California, Irvine) Slides
10:45	--- Coffea break ---
11:15	Status of the Planck satellite - François Bouchet (IAP, Paris) Slides
12:00	Gravitational waves - Pierre Binetruy (APC, Paris) Slides

09:15	Plenary II (until 12:45)
09:15	Prospects for CMB observations - Hiranya Peiris (Cambridge) Slides
10:00	Status of inflation - Andrew Liddle Slides
10:45	--- Coffea break ---
11:15	Recent results from the Pierre Auger Observatory - Johannes Knapp (Leeds) Slides
12:00	The Search for Dark Matter with Neutrinos - Francis Halzen (Wisconsin) Slides

09:00	Plenary III (until 13:15)
09:00	Identification of Dark Matter candidates - Gianfranco Bertone (IAP, Paris) Slides
09:45	Indirect search for Dark Matter: experiments - Michael Schubnell (Michigan) Slides
10:30	Update on Direct searches for Dark Matter - Neil Spooner (Sheffield) Slides
11:15	--- Coffee break ---
11:45	Indirect search for Dark Matter: interpretation - Pierre Salati (LAPTH, Annecy) Slides
12:30	Neutrinos and other light relics - Steen Hannestad (Unknown) Slides

08:30	Plenary IV (until 12:45)
08:30	Large Scale Structure in the Intergalactic Medium - Matteo Viel Slides
09:15	Non-linear structure formation: analytical approach - Roman Scoccimarro (New York U.) Slides
10:00	Non-linear stucture formation: simulations - Juerg Diemand (Lick Observatory, California) Slides
10:45	--- Coffea break ---
11:15	Observation of large scale structure: galaxy power spectrum - Will Percival (Portsmouth) Slides
12:00	Probing Dark Energy and Dark Matter with Weak Lensing - Alexandre Refregier (CEA, Saclay) Slides

09:00	Plenary V (until 12:45)
09:00	Big Bang Nucleosynthesis - Karsten Jedamzik (Montpellier) Slides
09:45	Dark Energy - Andrew Tolley (Perimeter) Slides
10:30	--- Coffea break ---
11:00	Modified gravity - Gregory Gabadadze (New York U.) Slides
11:45	Accelerated expansion from structure formation - Suksy Rasanen (Geneva U.) Slides
12:30	Concluding remarks and COSMO'10 announcement

14:15	Dark Energy and Modified Gravity (until 18:15)
14:15	Chameleons in Cosmology and Astrophysics - Clare Burrage Slides
14:35	The Effective Theory of Quintessence: the w<-1 Side Unveiled - Paolo CREMINELLI (ICTP) Slides
14:55	Do we live inside a big void? - Juan GARCIA-BELLIDO (Madrid) Slides
15:15	Constraining the dark fluid - David PARKINSON (University of Sussex) Slides
15:35	Simulating dark interactions - Marco BALDI (ITP, Heidelberg University) Slides
15:55	Scale dependent superluminal propagation as a key feature of modified gravity models - Antonio De Felice Slides
16:15	--- Break ---
16:35	Cascading gravity - Claudia DE RHAM (Perimeter / McMaster) Slides
16:55	N-body Simulations of DGP and Degravitation - Mark WYMAN (Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics) Slides
17:15	Non-linear Structure Formation in Modified Gravity Theories - Fabian SCHMIDT (University of Chicago) Slides
17:35	The existence of relativistic stars in f(R) gravity - Amol UPADHYE (Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics, University of Chicago) Slides
17:55	Testing General Relativity on Cosmological Scales with Weak Gravitational Lensing - Ali VANDERVELD (Caltech/JPL)
14:15	Dark Matter (until 18:15) (TH Theory Conference Room)
14:15	Indirect Dark Matter searches with the PAMELA experiment: a wide range cosmic ray observatory - Oscar ADRIANI (Universita' di Firenze and INFN Firenze) Slides
14:30	Indirect dark matter searches with imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes - Emmanuel MOULIN (CEA Saclay, Irfu) Slides
14:45	Motivations for a New Force in the Dark Sector - Tracy SLATYER (Harvard University) Slides
15:00	Cosmic Rays from Dark Matter Decay - David TRAN (Technical University of Munich) Slides
15:15	Galactic evolution and dark matter stability - Francesc FERRER (Washington University in St Louis) Slides
15:30	Constraints on annihilating Dark Matter from reionization and extragalactic gamma background - Andi HEKTOR (NICPB, Tallin) Slides
15:45	Constraints on Dark Matter models with large annihilation cross sections from the Early Universe - Fabio IOCCO (IPhT at CEA/Saclay; IAP Paris) Slides
16:00	--- Break ---
16:25	The Constrained NMSSM in the light of a bayesian analysis - Daniel LOPEZ-FOGLIANI (University of Sheffield) Slides
16:40	Scalar Dark Matter from Inert Doublet Model - Laura LOPEZ-HONOREZ (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid) Slides
16:55	Sterile neutrinos as dark matter - Kalliopi PETRAKI (UCLA) Slides
17:10	DAMA/LIBRA and leptonically interacting Dark Matter - Thomas SCHWETZ (Max-Planck-Institute) Slides
17:25	A novel determination of the local dark matter density - Riccardo CATENA (SISSA) Slides
17:40	Dark Stars- Dark Matter and shaping the first Stars - Douglas SPOLYAR (Fermi Lab) Slides
17:55	Higgs in Space! - Marco TAOSO (University of Padova) Slides
18:15	Reception (until 20:00) (Main building)

14:15	CMB, LSS, cosmological models and parameters (until 18:28) (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)
14:15	Scale dependent bias in the bispectrum of galaxies from primordial non-gaussianity - Dr Kazuya Koyama Slides
14:38	Non-gaussianity of the CMB:primordial vs non-linearities - Dr Nicola Bartolo Slides
15:01	Peculiar velocities into the next generation: cosmological parameters from the SFI++ survey - Dr Alexandra Abate Slides
15:21	Cross correlation of the lyman-alpha forest and CMB lensing - Dr Alberto Vallinotto Slides
15:41	Two-minute presentations of selected posters - Martins bonvin
15:55	--- Break ---
16:25	New measurements of the temperature and polarization of the CMB from QUaD - Dr Michael Brown Slides
16:45	Small scale cosmological structure - Prof. Kevork Abazajian Slides
17:05	Cosmological constraints from the clustering of SDSS DR7 luminous red galaxies - Dr Beth Reid Slides
17:25	Cosmic transparency and consistency among distance measures - Dr Anastasios Avgoustidis Slides
17:38	The high-redshift ISW - Jun-Quing Xia Slides
17:51	Two-minute presentations of selected posters - Fraisse Fauvet D'Amico
14:15	String Cosmology (until 18:27) (TH Theory Conference Room)
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
16:10	--- Break ---
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

15:30	CERN Colloquium by Pr. Steven Hawking (until 16:30)
18:30	Social event: Attribution of the Tomalla Prize 2009 for gravity research to Viatcheslav Mukhanov and Alexei Starobinsky at Geneva University (ceremony, talks, aperitif) (until 20:30) (Geneva University)

14:15	Inflation (until 18:15)
14:15	Inflation and the Higgs boson - Dr Fedor Bezrukov (Heidelberg) Slides
14:30	Breaking the scale invariance of the primordial spectrum in Horava-Lifshitz Cosmology - Dr Tsutomu Kobayashi (Waseda) Slides
14:45	Bispectrum and Trispectrum of curvature perturbations from primordial non-Abelian vector fields - Emanuela Dimastrogiovanni (Padova) Slides
15:00	Lorentz boost and non-Gaussianity in multi-field DBI-inflation - Dr Frederico Arroja (Yukawa, Kyoto) Slides
15:15	Instability of cosmological models with nonminimally coupled vector fields - Mr Burak Himmetoglu (Minnesota) Slides
15:30	Constraints on primordial density perturbations from induced gravitational waves - Mr Hoshyar Asadollahi (Portsmouth) Slides
15:45	Large non-Gaussianity from slow-roll inflation - Dr Christian Byrnes (Heidelberg) Slides
16:00	--- Break ---
16:30	Gauge singlet scalar as inflaton and dark matter - Ms Rose Lerner (Lancaster) Slides
16:45	The subdominant curvaton - Mr Taanila Olli (Helsinki) Slides
17:00	Numerical simulations of second order perturbations - Mr Ian Huston (Queen Mary, London) Slides
17:15	Initial conditions space in F-term SUGRA inflation: Exploration by MCMC technique - Mr Sebastien Clesse (Brussels) Slides
17:30	k-essence models of unified inflation, dark matter and dark energy - Dr Archan Majumdar (Bose National Center, Kolkata) Slides
17:45	Gravitational waves from the non-perturbative decay of supersymmetric flat directions - Dr Jean-Francois Dufaux (UAM, Madrid) Slides
18:00	--- Session ends ---
14:15	Particle physics in the early universe (until 18:35) (TH Theory Conference Room) slides
14:15	Recent developments in leptogenesis - Enrico Nardi Slides
14:35	Testing leptogenesis at LHC - Steve Blanchet Slides
14:55	Flavoured leptogenesis - Sergei Petcov Slides
15:15	Probing SUSY leptogenesis with mu->e gamma - Cristoforo Simonetto Slides
15:35	Towards analyzing leptogenesis in the Kadanoff-Baym formalism - Alexander Kartavtsev Slides
15:55	Electroweak baryogenesis in the MSSM - Germano Nardini Slides
16:15	--- Break ---
16:35	Bubble growth and production of kinetic energy in first order Phase Transitions - Mr Jose Miguel No Slides
16:55	BBN constraints on strong relic particles - Motohiko Kusakabe Slides
17:15	Dark strings - Tanmay Vachaspati Slides
17:35	Coupled currents in cosmic strings - Marc Lilley Slides
17:55	Sizable CP violation in the bosonic Standard Model - Thomas Konstandin Slides
18:15	Gravitational waves from phase transitions - Chiara Caprini Slides

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