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Schedule
Monday, May 25

 TimeSpeaker or EventTopicLocation
 8:30 - 9:00 AMRegistration  Atrium
 8:30 - 9:00 AMContinental Breakfast Black Hole Bistro
 9:00 - 10:00 AMCliff BurgessThe Cosmological Constant Problem and Extra DimensionsBob Room
 10:00 - 10:45 AMSusha Parameswaran6D Brane Models and their PeturbationsBob Room
 10:45 - 11:15 AMCoffee Break Black Hole Bistro
 11:15 - 12:00 PMHyun-Min LeeInflation on a codimension-two braneBob Room
 12:00 - 12:45 PMSeifallah Randjbar-DaemiInfrared Modification of Gravity with Dynamical TorsionBob Room
 12:45 - 2:00 PM Lunch Black Hole Bistro
 2:00 - 2:45 PMDaniel ChungPhenomenological Connections between Particle Physics and Dark EnergyBob Room
 2:45 - 3:30 PMJohn MoffatPositive and Negative Energy Symmetry and the Cosmological Constant ProblemBob Room
 3:30 - 4:00 PMCoffee Break Black Hole Bistro
 4:00 - 4:45 PMLisa EverettTBA Bob Room
 4:45 - 5:30 PMNeil TurokTBABob Room

Tuesday, May 26

 TimeSpeaker or EventTopicLocation
8:30 – 9:00 AM Continental Breakfast  
9:30 – 10:15 AMNemanja KaloperWhere in the String Landscape is QuintessenceBob Room
10:15 – 10:45 AMCoffee Break Black Hole Bistro
10:45 – 11:30 AMAlberto IglesiasDilution of the Cosmological Constant: Higher Codimension Branes and Higher Curvature TermsBob Room
11:30 – 12:15 PMJustin KhouryCascading Gravity and the Cosmological ConstantBob Room
12:15 – 2:00 PMLunch Black Hole Bistro
2:00 - 2:45 PMLam HuiModified Gravity, Degravitation and Equivalence PrincipleBob Room
2:45 - 3:30 PMYanwen ShangMassive gravity in 3-D and the Chern-Simons-Proca theoryBob Room
3:30 - 4:00 PMCoffee Break Black Hole Bistro
4:00 - 4:45 PMGhazal GeshnizjaniObservational Evidence for Cosmological-Scale Extra DimensionsBob Room
4:45 - 5:30 PM
Aharon DavidsonZero cosmological Constant from Normalized General RelativityBob Room
6:30 PMConference Dinner Black Hole Bistro


Wednesday, May 27

 TimeSpeaker or EventTopic Location
 8:30 - 9:00 AM Continental Breakfast Black Hole Bistro
 9:00 - 9:45 AMHenry Tye
Is there Eternal Inflation in the Cosmic Landscape?Bob Room
 9:45 - 10:30 AM
Nissan Itzhaki
Dynamics and the Cosmological Constant ProblemBob Room
 10:30 - 11:00 AMCoffee Break  Black Hole Bistro
 11:00 - 11:45 AMRafael SorkinIs the cosmological constant a nonlocal quantum residue of discreteness of the causal set type?Bob Room
 11:45 - 12:30 PMNiayesh Afshordi Gravitational aether as a solution to the CC problem and more!Bob Room
 12:30 - 2:00 PMLunch Black Hole Bistro

 2:00 - 3:15 PM

David SpergelPI ColloquimBob Room
 3:15 - 3:45 PMCoffee Break  Black Hole Bistro
 3:45 - 4:30 PMFederico PiazzaModifying Gravity in the Infra-Red by imposing an Ultra-Strong equivalence principleBob Room
 4:30 - 5:15 PM Lee SmolinThe quantization of unimodular gravity and the cosmological constant problemBob Room
 
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