Cosmology 2021: the Rise of Field Theory
from
Monday, 4 January 2021 (08:00)
to
Friday, 8 January 2021 (21:00)
Monday, 4 January 2021
12:45
12:45 - 13:00
13:00
Minimalism in modified gravity (Shinji Mukohyama)
Minimalism in modified gravity (Shinji Mukohyama)
13:00 - 13:45
13:45
Fundamental pillars of cosmology (Lavinia Heisenberg)
Fundamental pillars of cosmology (Lavinia Heisenberg)
13:45 - 14:30
14:30
Break
Break
14:30 - 15:00
15:00
Dark energy after gravitational wave observations (Filippo Vernizzi)
Dark energy after gravitational wave observations (Filippo Vernizzi)
15:00 - 15:45
15:45
Wave dark matter (Lam Hui)
Wave dark matter (Lam Hui)
15:45 - 16:30
16:30
Break
Break
16:30 - 17:00
17:00
Panel discussion (late universe cosmology and gravity. Chair: Ed Copeland. Panel members: Antonio Padilla, Paolo Creminelli, Rachel Rosen and Riccardo Penco)
Panel discussion (late universe cosmology and gravity. Chair: Ed Copeland. Panel members: Antonio Padilla, Paolo Creminelli, Rachel Rosen and Riccardo Penco)
17:00 - 18:00
Tuesday, 5 January 2021
13:00
Positivity with Gravity (Claudia de Rham)
Positivity with Gravity (Claudia de Rham)
13:00 - 13:45
13:45
Positive Moments for Scattering Amplitudes (Brando Bellazzini)
Positive Moments for Scattering Amplitudes (Brando Bellazzini)
13:45 - 14:30
14:30
Break
Break
14:30 - 15:00
15:00
Lorentzian vacuum transitions (Francesco Muia)
Lorentzian vacuum transitions (Francesco Muia)
15:00 - 15:45
15:45
Bounds on non-geodesics from the Swampland Distance Conjecture (Irene Valenzuela)
Bounds on non-geodesics from the Swampland Distance Conjecture (Irene Valenzuela)
15:45 - 16:30
16:30
Break
Break
16:30 - 17:00
17:00
Panel discussion (obstructions to UV completion. Chair: Cliff Burgess. Panel members: Eva Silverstein, Gary Shiu and Andrew Tolley)
Panel discussion (obstructions to UV completion. Chair: Cliff Burgess. Panel members: Eva Silverstein, Gary Shiu and Andrew Tolley)
17:00 - 18:00
Wednesday, 6 January 2021
13:00
The Cosmological Bootstrap (Daniel Baumann)
The Cosmological Bootstrap (Daniel Baumann)
13:00 - 13:45
13:45
Constraining the time evolution of cosmological correlators (Scott Melville)
Constraining the time evolution of cosmological correlators (Scott Melville)
13:45 - 14:30
14:30
Break
Break
14:30 - 15:00
15:00
A Bit Rate Bound on Superluminal Communication (Yi Wang)
A Bit Rate Bound on Superluminal Communication (Yi Wang)
15:00 - 15:45
15:45
On the conformal symmetry of DBI and special galileon (Kurt Hinterbichler)
On the conformal symmetry of DBI and special galileon (Kurt Hinterbichler)
15:45 - 16:30
16:30
Break
Break
16:30 - 17:00
17:00
Panel discussion (early universe and cosmological bootstrap. Chair: Enrico Pajer. Panel members: Paolo Benincasa, Austin Joyce, Gia Dvali)
Panel discussion (early universe and cosmological bootstrap. Chair: Enrico Pajer. Panel members: Paolo Benincasa, Austin Joyce, Gia Dvali)
17:00 - 18:00
Thursday, 7 January 2021
13:00
Going forward: from field theory to Bayesian inference from LSS (Fabian Schmidt)
Going forward: from field theory to Bayesian inference from LSS (Fabian Schmidt)
13:00 - 13:45
13:45
Large-scale structure cosmology in the systematics-limited regime (Elisabeth Krause)
Large-scale structure cosmology in the systematics-limited regime (Elisabeth Krause)
13:45 - 14:30
14:30
Break
Break
14:30 - 15:00
15:00
New Techniques for New Physics in Large-scale Structure (Marilena Loverde)
New Techniques for New Physics in Large-scale Structure (Marilena Loverde)
15:00 - 15:45
15:45
Simulations as the heart of modeling LSS for precision cosmology (Risa Wechsler)
Simulations as the heart of modeling LSS for precision cosmology (Risa Wechsler)
15:45 - 16:30
16:30
Break
Break
16:30 - 17:00
17:00
Panel discussion (large scale strcuture. Chair: Cora Uhlemann. Panel members: Slava Mukhanov, Shirley Ho, Deniel Gruen and George Efstathiou)
Panel discussion (large scale strcuture. Chair: Cora Uhlemann. Panel members: Slava Mukhanov, Shirley Ho, Deniel Gruen and George Efstathiou)
17:00 - 18:00
Friday, 8 January 2021
18:00
Public Talk: Eiichiro Komatsu
Public Talk: Eiichiro Komatsu
18:00 - 19:00
http://www.ctc.cam.ac.uk/activities/hawking79/
19:00
Public Talk: Roger Penrose
Public Talk: Roger Penrose
19:00 - 20:00
http://www.ctc.cam.ac.uk/activities/hawking79/
20:00
Q&A
Q&A
20:00 - 21:00