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Schedule

Tuesday, July 12, 2011 Topic: Eternal Inflation

 TimeSpeaker or Event
TopicLocation
8:30 - 9:00am Registration  Atrium 
9:00 - 9:50am  Neil Turok
Perimeter Institute		Overview of the ChallengesLazaridis Theatre
9:50 - 10:40amAlan Guth
Massachusetts Institute of Technology		TBA
Lazaridis Theatre
10:40 - 11:20amCoffee Break Black Hole Bistro 
11:20 - 12:10pmBen Freivogel
Massachusetts Institute of Technology		TBA
Lazaridis Theatre
12:10 - 1:00pm Willy Fischler
University of Texas at Austin		Holographic Cosmology Part 1
Lazaridis Theatre
1:00 -  4:00pmLunch Break  Black Hole Bistro 
4:00 - 4:30pmHiranya Peiris
University College London		First Observational Tests of Eternal InflationLazaridis Theatre
4:30 - 5:00pm Leonardo Senatore
Stanford University		On Slow Roll Eternal InflationLazaridis Theatre
5:00 - 5:30pm Matt Kleban
New York University 		TBALazaridis Theatre
5:30 - 6:00pm Matt Johnson
Perimeter Institute 		Bringing Terminal Vacua Back to Life With Classical TransitionsLazaridis Theatre

Wednesday, July 13, 2011 Topic: The Measure Problem

 TimeSpeaker or Event
TopicLocation
9:00 - 9:50am James Hartle
University of California, Santa Barbara		Eternal Inflation in the Light of Quantum CosmologyLazaridis Theatre
9:50 - 10:40amRaphael Bousso
University of California, Berkeley 		The Measure Problem: Successes and ChallengesLazaridis Theatre
10:40 - 11:20amCoffee Break  Black Hole Bistro  
11:20 - 12:10pmJaume Garriga
University of Barcelona
TBA		Lazaridis Theatre
12:10 - 12:40pmJean-Luc Lehners
Albert Einstein Institute		Does the Cyclic Universe Avoid the Measure Problem?Lazaridis Theatre
1:00 - 4:00pmLunch Break Black Hole Bistro   
4:00 - 4:30pmJose Juan Blanco-Pillado
Tufts University
Transdimensional Tunneling in the MultiverseLazaridis Theatre
4:30 - 5:00pm Vitaly Vanchurin 
Stanford University 		Physics Beyond the Standard Theory of Inflation and Dark EnergyLazaridis Theatre
5:00 - 5:30pm Ben Shlaer 
Tufts University		 A critique of Coleman - De LucciaLazaridis Theatre
5:30 - 6:00pm Adam Brown
Princeton University 		Populating the Whole LandscapeLazaridis Theater  

Thursday, July 14, 2011 Topic: Alternatives

 TimeSpeaker or Event
TopicLocation
9:00 - 9:50am  Andreas Albrecht
University of California, Davis		Infinity, Finiteness and Inflationary CosmologyLazaridis Theatre
9:50 - 10:40amJustin Khoury
University of Pennsylvania		Scale Invariance from Spontaneous Breaking of Conformal SymmetryLazaridis Theatre
10:40 - 11:20amCoffee Break Black Hole Bistro   
11:20 - 12:10pmPaul Steinhardt
Princeton University		Meeting the ChallengesLazaridis Theatre
12:10 - 1:00pmSir Roger Penrose
University of Oxford		Conformal Cyclic Cosmology: Some Striking New Observational SupportLazaridis Theatre
1:00 - 4:00pm Lunch Break  Black Hole Bistro    
4:00 - 4:30pm Laura Mersini-Houghton 
University of North Carolina
Selection of the Initial Conditions from the Landscape MultiverseLazaridis Theater
4:30 - 5:00pm Itzhak Bars 
University of Southern California		Antigravity Predicted Between Crunch and Bang in a Cyclic UniverseLazaridis Theatre
5:00 - 5:30pm BingKan Xue
Princeton University 		Curvature and Anisotropy Near a Nonsingular BounceLazaridis Theatre
5:30 - 6:00pmPaul McFadden
Institute for Theoretical Physics, Amsterdam		Inflationary Cosmology: A Holographic Perspective

Lazaridis Theatre

Friday, July 15, 2011 Topic: Fundamental Theory

 TimeSpeaker or Event
TopicLocation
9:00 - 9:50am  Lenny Susskind
Stanford University		TBA Lazaridis Theatre
9:50 - 10:40amRadford Neal
University of Toronto		Probability and Anthropic Reasoning in Small, Large, and Infinite UniversesLazaridis Theatre
10:40 - 11:20amCoffee Break Black Hole Bistro    
11:20 - 12:10pmTom Banks
Rutgers, University of California, Santa Cruz		 
Holographic Cosmology Inflation and Entropy		Lazaridis Theatre
12:10 - 1:00pmNima Arkani-Hamed
Institute for Advanced Study		TBA Lazaridis Theater  
1:00 - 4:00pm Lunch Break  Black Hole Bistro 
4:00 - 4:30pm Gonzalo Torroba 
Stanford University		 A Simple Harmonic UniverseLazaridis Theatre
4:30 - 5:00pm Sarah Shandera
Perimeter Institute
Infrared Challenges for InflationLazaridis Theatre
5:00 - 5:30pm 

Alberto Nicolis
Columbia University

Galilean GenesisLazaridis Theatre
5:30 - 6:00pm  Michael Salem
Stanford University 		Observable Signatures of Anisotropic Bubble Nucleation 

Saturday, July 16, 2011 Topic: Entropy Problem

 TimeSpeaker or Event
TopicLocation
9:00 - 9:50amAnthony Aguirre
University of California, Santa Cruz
 What Happens When Entropy DecreasesLazaridis Theatre
9:50 - 10:40amDon Page
University of Alberta		 Entropy in the UniverseLazaridis Theatre
10:40 - 11:30amSean Carroll
California Institute of Technology		 The Arrow of Time in an Eternal UniverseLazaridis Theatre 
11:30 - 12:00pmCoffee Break Black Hole Bistro
12:00 - 1:30pm
Panel Discussion
Moderator: Robert Myers
Perimeter Institute 		 Lazaridis Theatre
1:30 - 3:30pmConference BBQ Black Hole Bistro
    

 

 
 
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