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Thursday, March 6 | Time | Speaker or Event | Topic | Location | | 8:30 – 9:30 | Registration | | Atrium | 8:30 – 9:30 | Coffee; Welcome | | Black Hole Bistro | 9:30 – 11:00 | Eiichiro Komatsu | WMAP 5-year Results: Implications for Inflation | Theatre | 11:00 – 11:30 | COFFEE BREAK | | Black Hole Bistro | 11:30 – 12:30 | Paul Steinhardt | | Bob Room | | 12:30 – 2:00 | LUNCH | | Black Hole Bistro | 2:00 – 3:30 | Burt Ovrut | New Ekpyrotic Cosmology | Bob Room | | 3:30 – 4:00 | COFFEE BREAK | | Black Hole Bistro | | 4:00 – 4:30 | Evgeny Buchbinder | Non-Gaussianities in New Ekpyrotic Cosmology | Bob Room | | 4:30 – 5:00 | Jean-Luc Lehners | Ekpyrotic Non-Gaussianity | Bob Room | | 5:00 – 5:30 | Liudmila Joukovskaya | Accelerating Universe from Cubic String Field Theory | Bob Room |
| Friday, March 7 | Time | Speaker or Event | Topic | Location | | 9:00 - 10:30 | Thomas Hertog | Big Crunch to Big Bang with AdS/CFT | Bob Room | 10:30 - 11:00 | COFFEE BREAK | | Black Hole Bistro | 11:00 - 12:30 | Ben Craps | Quantum Resolution of Cosmological Singularities using AdS/CFT | Bob Room | 12:30 - 2:00 | LUNCH | | Black Hole Bistro | 2:00 - 3:30 | Robert Brandenberger | Progress and Puzzles in String Gas Cosmology | Bob Room | | 3:30 - 4:00 | COFFEE BREAK | | Black Hole Bistro | 4:00 - 4:30 | Daniel Wesley | New no-go theorems and the costs of cosmic acceleration | Bob Room | | 4:30 - 5:00 | Paul McFadden | Wald Entropy and the Einstein Equation of State | Bob Room | | 5:00 - 5:30 | Neil Barnaby | Predictions for Nonlocal Inflation | Bob Room | | 5:30 - 6:00 | Andrew Tolley | Constraining initial state non-gaussianity via backreaction | Bob Room |
| Saturday, March 8 | Time | Speaker or Event | Topic | Location | | 9:00 – 10:30 | Sumit Das | Gauge Theory Duals of Cosmological Singularities | Bob Room | 10:30 – 11:00 | COFFEE BREAK | | Black Hole Bistro | | 11:00 – 12:30 | Eliezer Rabinovici | Aspects of Hagedorn Holography | Bob Room | 12:30 – 2:00 | LUNCH | | Black Hole Bistro |
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At 2:00 pm the Origins and Observations of Primordial Non-Gaussianity Workshop begins in the Bob Room.
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