Name: Probing fundamental physics with CMB spectral distortions
Start: 2018-03-12T00:30:00+01:00
End: 2018-03-16T19:00:00+01:00
Location: CERN

Monday, 12 March 2018

09:30 Registration
Registration
09:30 - 10:00
Room: 503/1-001 - Council Chamber
10:00
10:00 - 12:30
Room: 503/1-001 - Council Chamber
Contributions

10:00 Welcome and introduction

10:10 Spectral Distortions at CERN: Getting the ball rolling - Marc Kamionkowski (Johns Hopkins University)

11:30 Two milestones in the life of the Universe: Last Scattering Surface and Black Body Photosphere, and an introduction to the theory of Spectral Distortions. - Rashid Sunyaev (MPA)
12:30 Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 14:00
14:00
14:00 - 15:30
Room: 503/1-001 - Council Chamber
Contributions

14:00 Mapping Hot Gas in the Universe using the Sunyaev-Zeldovich Effect - Eiichiro Komatsu (Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics)

14:45 Taking the Universe's Temperature with CMB Spectral Distortions - James Colin Hill (Institute for Advanced Study)
15:30 Coffee
Coffee
15:30 - 16:00
Room: 503/1-001 - Council Chamber
16:00 Low-z distortions, chair - Komatsu
Low-z distortions, chair - Komatsu
16:00 - 17:00
Room: 503/1-001 - Council Chamber
Contributions

16:00 Discussion
18:00 Reception
Reception
18:00 - 20:00
Tuesday, 13 March 2018
10:00
10:00 - 12:30
Room: 503/1-001 - Council Chamber
Contributions

10:00 A New Window on Primordial Perturbations - Enrico Pajer (Utrecht University)

11:10 Exploring the early universe with CMB spectral distortions - Emanuela Dimastrogiovanni (Case Western Reserve University)

12:00 Spectral distortions induced by dissipation of primordial magnetic fields - Kerstin Elena Kunze (University of Salamanca (ES))
12:30 Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 14:00
14:00
14:00 - 15:40
Room: 4/3-006 - TH Conference Room
Contributions

14:00 Primordial non-Gaussianity with CMB spectral distortions: trispectrum and scale-dependence. - Michele Liguori (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Padova)

14:25 Probing anisotropic signatures from inflation with CMB spectral distortions - Nicola Bartolo (Physics and Astronomy Dept., "G. Galilei", University of Padova)

14:50 CMB spectroscopy for primordial non Gaussianity - Atsuhisa Ota (Tokyo Institute of Technology )

15:15 Constraints on the primordial power spectrum from $\mu$-distortions - Giovanni Cabass (Physics Department and INFN, La Sapienza University of Rome)
15:40 Coffee
Coffee
15:40 - 16:00
Room: 503/1-001 - Council Chamber
16:00 Non-Gaussianities, chair - Byrnes
Non-Gaussianities, chair - Byrnes
16:00 - 17:00
Room: 4/3-006 - TH Conference Room
Contributions

16:00 Discussion
Wednesday, 14 March 2018
10:00
10:00 - 12:00
Room: 4/3-006 - TH Conference Room
Contributions

10:00 BSM expectations for late decaying particles - Subir Sarkar (University of Oxford (GB) and Niels Bohr Institute (DK) )

11:10 Spectral distortions as a window beyond the WIMP paradigm - Pasquale Serpico (LAPTh - CNRS & Univ. Savoie (FR))
12:00 Lunch
Lunch
12:00 - 14:00

14:00

14:00 - 15:00
Room: 4/3-006 - TH Conference Room

15:00 Coffee
Coffee
15:00 - 15:30
Room: 503/1-001 - Council Chamber
15:30
15:30 - 17:15
Room: 4/3-006 - TH Conference Room
Contributions

15:30 Fourier Transform Spectroscopy for CMB Spectral Distortions: the PIXIE example - Alan Kogut (NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center)

15:55 APSERa: Towards developing a ground-based CMB spectral distortion detection experiment - Mayuri Sathyanarayana Rao (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab & Raman Research Institute )

16:20 Spectro-imaging of the polarised CMB - Jacques Delabrouille (CNRS)

16:45 What Next? - Joseph Silk (IAP)
17:30 (over beers) Chair - Al Kogut
(over beers) Chair - Al Kogut
17:30 - 18:30
Room: 4/3-006 - TH Conference Room
Thursday, 15 March 2018
10:00
10:00 - 12:00
Room: 503/1-001 - Council Chamber
Contributions

10:00 Atmospheric effects in ground-based measurements of spectral distortions - Elia Battistelli (Sapienza University of Rome)

10:25 Forecasting with foregrounds: searching for optimal spectral distortion mission configurations - Max Abitbol (Columbia University )

11:10 Extracting anisotropic µ-type spectral distortions - Mathieu Remazeilles (University of Manchester)

11:35 Differential FTS measurements of anisotropic spectral distortions: OLIMPO and future space missions - Silvia Masi (Dipartimento di Fisica, Sapienza Università di Roma)
12:00 Lunch/ tour of CMS 12:20 - 14:00
Lunch/ tour of CMS 12:20 - 14:00
12:00 - 14:15
14:15
14:15 - 15:15
Room: 503/1-001 - Council Chamber
Contributions

14:15 Probing dark matter with spectral distortions - Yacine Ali-Haimoud (New York University)

14:45 Phenomenological signatures of Primordial Black Holes - Juan Garcia-Bellido (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid)
15:15 Coffee
Coffee
15:15 - 15:30
Room: 503/1-001 - Council Chamber
15:30 chair - Glenn Starkman
chair - Glenn Starkman
15:30 - 16:30
Room: 503/1-001 - Council Chamber
Contributions

15:30 Discussion
16:30

16:30 - 17:30
Room: 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium
Friday, 16 March 2018
10:00
10:00 - 12:00
Room: 503/1-001 - Council Chamber
Contributions

10:00 Bounds on Dark Matter annihilations from 21 cm data - Guido D'Amico (CERN)

11:00 Polarized spectral distortions of CMB from low mass ALPs - Suvodip Mukherjee (CCA, Flatiron Institute)

11:30 CMB spectral distortions as a probe of DM-$\gamma$ and DM-$\nu$ interactions - James Diacoumis (University of New South Wales)
12:00 Lunch
Lunch
12:00 - 14:00
14:00
14:00 - 16:00
Room: 503/1-001 - Council Chamber
Contributions

14:00 The COSMO experiment: towards spectral distortion measurements from the ground and from stratospheric balloons - Paolo de Bernardis

14:45 Panel Discussion
16:00 Coffee and farewell
Coffee and farewell
16:00 - 16:30
Room: 503/1-001 - Council Chamber