4th PI/UT/CITA Workshop (CIAR Cosmology & Gravity Focus Group)

Perimeter Institute, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

Thursday May 13, 2004

Also sponsored by the Cosmology and Gravity Program of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research

This mini-workshop will be the next of an ongoing series of one-day meetings between researchers at Perimeter, CITA and University of Toronto. These meetings are held to share new ideas and encourage interactions in our common fields of interest: superstrings, cosmology, particle theory and quantum gravity.

The meeting will be held at the Perimeter Institute on Thursday May 13. As usual, the format of the meeting will be a series of short 30-minute talks to seed informal discussion. The seminars will start at 11am in the PI seminar room.

Organizers:

• Lev Kofman (CITA)
• Rob Myers (PI)

Speakers:

• Jerome Gauntlett (Imperial/Perimeter):Classifying Supergravity Solutions
• Melanie Becker (Maryland): De Sitter Space and Heterotic M-Theory
• Eva Silverstein (Stanford): DBI in the Sky
• Robert Caldwell (Dartmouth): Modeling Dark Energy
• Robert Brandenberger (Brown/McGill/Perimeter): Dynamical Relaxation of the Cosmological Constant from Gravitational Back-Reaction
• Panel Discussion on String Cosmology Convenors: Dick Bond, Lev Kofman and Rob Myers