Schedule
Wednesday May 20

 TimeSpeaker or EventTopic Location
 8:30 - 9:00AMContinental Breakfast Black Hole Bistro 
 8:30 - 9:00AMRegistration Atrium 
 9:00 - 10:00AMLiam McAllister
Cornell University
Holographic Systematics of D-Brane Inflation Alice Room 301
 10:00 - 10:30AMBreak Black Hole Bistro 
 10:30 - 11:30AMJan Pieter van de Schaar University of Amsterdam, Institute for Theoretical Physics Bispectrum signatures of modifications to the inflationary vacuum  Alice Room 301 
 11:30 - 12:30PMThorsten Battefeld
Princeton University 
Preheating after Multi-Field Inflation Alice Room 301  
 12:30 - 2:00PMLunch  Black Hole Bistro  
 2:00 - 3:00PMEugene Lim
Columbia University
Can we tell whether Stochastic Gravitational Waves are really primordial?Alice Room 301
 3:00 - 4:00PMSarah Shandera
Columbia University 
Dealing with derivative interactions Alice Room 301    
 6:30PMConference Banquet   Black Hole Bistro 

Thursday May 21

 TimeSpeaker or EventTopicLocation
 8:30 - 9:00AM Continental Breakfast  Black Hole Bistro   
 9:00 - 10:00AM Henry Tye
Cornell University 
Inflation with a Random Potential : Fluctuations in the CMB Power SpectrumBob Room 405
 10:00 - 10:30AM Break  Black Hole Bistro   
 10:30 - 11:30AM Martin Sloth
University of Aarhus 
Non-Gaussianity, Loops and the stability of de Sitter spaceBob Room 405     
 11:30 - 12:30PM Albert Nicolis
Columbia University 
Adiabatic perturbations as Goldstone bosonsBob Room 405   
 12:30 - 2:00PM Lunch  Black Hole Bistro    
 2:00 - 3:00PMMichael Trott
Perimeter Institute
Power Counting vs Higgs InflationBob Room 405     
 3:00 - 4:00PM Daniel Chung
UW Madison 
TBA Bob Room 405   


Friday May 22 

 TimeSpeaker or EventTopic Location
 8:30 - 9:00AM Continental Breakfast Black Hole Bistro     
 9:00 - 10:00AM Scott Watson
University of Michigan
NEC Violation and String Inspired Alternatives to Inflation Bob Room 405    
 10:00 - 10:30AM Break  Black Hole Bistro     
 10:30 - 11:30AM Peter Adshead
Yale University 
TBA Bob Room 405    
 11:30 - 12:30PM Louis Leblond 
Texas A&M 
Perturbative Bounds in Inflation & Quantum Loops Bob Room 405    
 12:30 - 2:00PM Lunch  Black Hole Bistro     
 2:00 - 3:00PMEnrico Pajer
Cornell University 
Inflation from axion monodromy Bob Room 405     
 3:00 - 4:00PM Hassan FirouzjahiMatrix InflationBob Room 405    


Saturday May 23 - Conference Excursion

 

 
 
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