Cosmology 2021: the Rise of Field Theory

from Monday, January 4, 2021 (8:00 AM) to Friday, January 8, 2021 (9:00 PM)


        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
Jan 4, 2021
Jan 5, 2021
Jan 6, 2021
Jan 7, 2021
Jan 8, 2021
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12:45 PM
Introduction (until 1:00 PM)
1:00 PM Minimalism in modified gravity (Shinji Mukohyama)  
1:45 PM Fundamental pillars of cosmology (Lavinia Heisenberg)  
2:30 PM --- Break ---
3:00 PM Dark energy after gravitational wave observations (Filippo Vernizzi)  
3:45 PM Wave dark matter (Lam Hui)  
4:30 PM --- Break ---
5:00 PM Panel discussion (late universe cosmology and gravity. Chair: Ed Copeland. Panel members: Antonio Padilla, Paolo Creminelli, Rachel Rosen and Riccardo Penco)  
1:00 PM Positivity with Gravity (Claudia de Rham)  
1:45 PM Positive Moments for Scattering Amplitudes (Brando Bellazzini)  
2:30 PM --- Break ---
3:00 PM Lorentzian vacuum transitions (Francesco Muia)  
3:45 PM Bounds on non-geodesics from the Swampland Distance Conjecture (Irene Valenzuela)  
4:30 PM --- Break ---
5:00 PM Panel discussion (obstructions to UV completion. Chair: Cliff Burgess. Panel members: Eva Silverstein, Gary Shiu and Andrew Tolley)  
1:00 PM The Cosmological Bootstrap (Daniel Baumann)  
1:45 PM Constraining the time evolution of cosmological correlators (Scott Melville)  
2:30 PM --- Break ---
3:00 PM A Bit Rate Bound on Superluminal Communication (Yi Wang)  
3:45 PM On the conformal symmetry of DBI and special galileon (Kurt Hinterbichler)  
4:30 PM --- Break ---
5:00 PM Panel discussion (early universe and cosmological bootstrap. Chair: Enrico Pajer. Panel members: Paolo Benincasa, Austin Joyce, Gia Dvali)  
1:00 PM Going forward: from field theory to Bayesian inference from LSS (Fabian Schmidt)  
1:45 PM Large-scale structure cosmology in the systematics-limited regime (Elisabeth Krause)  
2:30 PM --- Break ---
3:00 PM New Techniques for New Physics in Large-scale Structure (Marilena Loverde)  
3:45 PM Simulations as the heart of modeling LSS for precision cosmology (Risa Wechsler)  
4:30 PM --- Break ---
5:00 PM Panel discussion (large scale strcuture. Chair: Cora Uhlemann. Panel members: Slava Mukhanov, Shirley Ho, Deniel Gruen and George Efstathiou)  
6:00 PM Public Talk: Eiichiro Komatsu  
7:00 PM Public Talk: Roger Penrose  
8:00 PM Q&A