Schedule

Wednesday, October 27, 2010

 TimeSpeaker or Event
TopicLocation
 9:00 - 9:30 AMRegistration in Atrium & Coffee Served in Bistro  Atrium/Black Hole Bistro
 9:30 - 9:45 AM Introductory Remarks by the Scientific Organizing Committee  Bob Room #405 
 9:45 - 10:30 AM Emil Mottola
Lanl
New Horizons in Cosmology: The Trace Anomaly, Cosmological Horizon Modes and Dynamical Dark EnergyBob Room #405  
 10:30 - 11:00 AM Coffee Break  Black Hole Bistro 
 11:00 - 11:45 AM Yuko Urakawa
Waseda University
IR divergence problem in single-field models of inflationBob Room #405  
 11:45 - 12:30 PM Louis Leblond
Perimeter Institute
Resumming late time divergences and comparing thermal vs dSBob Room #405  
 12:30 - 2:00 PM Lunch  Black Hole Bistro  
 2:00 - 3:30 PM Steve Giddings
University of California Santa Barbara 
Colloquium
The problems of quantum gravity: from high-energy scattering to black holes and cosmology
Mike Lazaridis Theater
 3:30 - 3:45 PM Coffee Break  Black Hole Bistro   
 3:45 - 4:30 PM Jason Kumar
University of Hawaii at Manoa
The Feynman Propagator and Correlation Functions in an Inflating SpacetimeBob Room #405   
 4:30 - 5:15 PM Arthur Hebecker
Heidelberg University
Inflationary Correlation Functions without Infrared DivergencesBob Room #405   
 5:15 - 6:00 PM Donald Marolf
University of California Santa Barbara
Singular gauges and dS invariance of the graviton vacuum Bob Room #405  

Thursday, October 28, 2010

 TimeSpeaker or Event
TopicLocation
 8:30 - 9:30 AM Coffee Served in Bistro Black Hole Bistro 
 9:30 - 10:15 AM Alexander Polyakov
Princeton University
Infrared sensitivity of  unstable vacua 
(via telephone)
Bob Room #405 
 10:15 - 10:45 AM Coffee Break Black Hole Bistro  
 10:45 - 11:30 AM Ugo Moschella
University of Insubria
Particle decay in the de Sitter universeBob Room #405  
 11:30 - 12:15 PM Atsushi Higuchi
University of York
On the Equivalence between Euclidean and In-In Formalisms in de Sitter QFTBob Room #405  
 12:15 - 2:00 PM Lunch  Black Hole Bistro  
 2:00 - 2:45 PM Albert Roura
Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics
One-loop Riemann correlators and dS invarianceBob Room #405  
 2:45 - 3:30 PM Jose Roberto Vidal
Universidad Autonoma de Madrid
Unitarity and vacuum decay Bob Room #405  
 3:30 - 4:00 PM Coffee Break  Black Hole Bistro  
 4:00 - 4:45 PMAlexander Dolgov
University of Ferrara
Infrared instability of massless scalars in De Sitter space-timeBob Room #405  
 4:45 - 5:30 PM Emil Akhmedov
Moscow ITEP
On radiation and IR divergences in dS spaceBob Room #405  

Friday, October 29. 2010

 TimeSpeaker or Event
TopicLocation
 8:30 - 9:30 AMCoffee Served in Bistro  Black Hole Bistro
 9:30 - 10:15 AM Richard Woodard
University of Florida
Interacting Quantum Fields in de Sitter Space Bob Room #405
 10:15 - 10:45 AM Coffee Break  Black Hole Bistro 
 10:45 - 11:30 AM Nikolaos Tsamis
University of Crete
Gravity-Driven CosmologyBob Room #405 
 11:30 - 12:15 PM Martin Sloth
CERN 
Semiclassical approaches to IR issues in quasi de Sitter universes  Bob Room #405 
 12:15 - 2:00 PM Lunch Black Hole Bistro 
 2:00 - 2:45 PM Arvind Rajaraman
University of California Irvine
Massless fields in Euclidean de Sitter space Bob Room #405 
 2:45 - 3:30 PM Dan Boyanovsky
University of Pittsburg 
Anomalous scaling dimensions and particle decay during inflationBob Room #405
 3:30 - 4:00 PM Coffee Break  Black Hole Bistro
 4:00 - 4:45 PM Emanuela Dimastrogiovanni
Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare
One-loop corrections in slow-roll and in more general theories of inflationBob Room #405
 4:45 - 5:30 PM Leonardo Senatore
IAS/Stanford University 
On IR effects in single field inflation Bob Room #405 
 6:30 PM Banquet Black Hole Bistro 

Saturday, October 30, 2010

 TimeSpeaker or Event
TopicLocation
 8:30 - 9:30 AMCoffee Served in Bistro  Black Hole Bistro 
 9:30 - 10:15 AM Steven Weinberg
University of Texas in Austin
Ultraviolet Divergences in Cosmological Correlations Mike Lazaridis Theater
 10:15 - 10:45 AM Coffee Break  Black Hole Bistro  
 10:45 - 11:30 AM Tomislav Prokopec
Utrech University
Going beyond de SitterBob Room #405  
 11:30 - 12:15 PM Takahiro Tanaka
Yukawa Institute at Kyoto University
Effects of decoherence on IR divergence Bob Room #405  
 12:15 - 2:00 PM Lunch  Black Hole Bistro  




 

 

 
 
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