Schedule

Tuesday, June 15

 TimeSpeaker or EventTopic Location
10:00 - 10:30 am Registration & Coffee
  
10:30 - 10:45 am
Scientific Organizing Committee
Introductory Remarks
 
Session Chair: TBA
10:45 - 11:30 am
Leonardo Senatore
Institute for Advanced Study
 On loops in Inflation  
11:30 - 12:00 pm
Coffee Break
  
12:00 - 12:45 pm
Dick Bond
CITA, University of Toronto
 CMB Frontiers: dark energies, polarization, high resolution, non-Gaussianity 
12:45 - 1:30 pm
Maxim Pospelov
Perimeter Institute/
University of Victoria
 Dark forces and alternative BBN scenarios  
1:30 - 3:30 pm
Lunch
  
Session Chair: TBA   
3:30 - 4:15 pm
Thomas Hertog
APC Paris &
Solvay Institute
 Eternal Inflation without Metaphysics  
4:15 - 5:00 pm
Kostas Skenderis
Universiteit van Amsterdam
 Holographic Non-Gaussianity  
5:00 - 5:15 pm Coffee Break
  
5:15 - 6:00 pm
Lenny Susskind
Stanford University
 Phases of eternal inflation  
6:00- 8:00 pm
Welcome Reception
  

 

Wednesday, June 16

TimeSpeaker or EventTopicLocation
 10:00 - 10:30 am  Coffee Break  
Session Chair: TBA 
  
 10:30 - 11:15 am
Richard Holman
Carnegie Mellon University
Infrared Issues in de Sitter Space: Secular Growth of Fluctuations and the Breakdown of the Semiclassical Approximation.  
 11:15 - 12:00 pm
Ruth Durrer
Université de Genève
The generation of primordial magnetic fields  
 12:00 - 2:00 pm
Lunch
  
 2:00 - 3:30 pm
Curt Cutler
California Institute of Technology
 Cosmology with 300,000 Standard Sirens  
 3:30 - 3:45 pm
Coffee Break
  
 Session Chair: TBA   
 3:45 - 4:30 pm Alexander Westphal Stanford University
A comment on gravitational waves and the scale of supersymmetry breaking  
 4:30 - 5:15 pm
Ben Freivogel
University of California, Berkeley
 Regulating Eternal Inflation with the UV/IR connection  
 5:15 - 5:30 pm
Coffee Break
  
 5:30 - 6:15 pm
Matias Zaldarriaga
Institute for Advanced Study
 Non-Gaussianities from Inflation  


Thursday, June 17

 TimeSpeaker or EventTopic Location
 9:30 - 10:00 am Coffee available in Bistro   
Session Chair: TBA   
10:00 - 10:45 am
Alex Maloney
McGill University
On the Microscopic Description of the Kerr Black Hole  
10:45 - 11:30 am
Jonathan Heckman
Institute for Advanced Study
 The Fuzzy Side of Decoupling Gravity  
11:30 - 12:00 pm
Coffee Break   
12:00 - 12:45 pm
Gary Horowitz
University of California, Santa Barbara
 Update on a Holographic Description of Singularities  
12:45 - 1:30 pm
Licia Verde
Institute of Cosmos Sciences, University of Barcelona
 Constraining primordial non-Gaussianity with large-scale structure  
1:30 - 3:30 pm
Lunch
  
Session Chair: TBA   
3:30 - 4:15 pmJim Peebles
Princeton University
 Hints from galaxies to a still better cosmology  
4:15- 5:00 pm
Eva Silverstein
KITP, University of California, Santa Barbara
 Micromanaging de Sitter holography  
5:00-5:15 pm
Coffee Break
  
5:15 - 6:00 pm
Neil Turok
Perimeter Institute
 Holographic Singularity Resolution  
 


Friday, June 18

 TimeSpeaker or EventTopic Location
Session Chair: TBA   
10:15 - 11:00 am
Neal Weiner
CCPP, New York University
 New Directions in Dark Matter  
11:00 - 11:30 am
Coffee Break
  
11:30 - 12:15 pm
Ue-Li Pen
CITA, University of Toronto
 21cm gravity wave fossils  
12:15 - 1:00 pm
Steve Giddings
University of California, Santa Barbara
IR effects, semiclassical relations, and perturbative limitations in inflationary spacetimes  
1:00 - 2:30 pm
BBQ Lunch
 Garden Area near 2nd Floor Mezzanine
 
 
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