PI CITA Day Winter 2009 - Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics

This is an ongoing series of meetings between researchers at Perimeter Institute and CITA. The goals of this meeting is to share new ideas and encourage interaction in our common fields of interest through a series of informal talks followed by discussions.

Click here to view conference talks on PIRSA.

Schedule:

Time	Speaker or Event	Topic	Location
10:30-10:45 AM	Coffee		Black Hole Bistro
10:45-11:00 AM	Dick Bond and Neil Turok	Opening Remarks: In Memory of Lev Kofman	Bob Room
11:00-11:50 AM	Andrei Frolov, Simon Fraser University	Searching for a Primordial Cold Spot in the CMB	Bob Room
11:50-12:40 PM	Zhiqi Huang, CITA	Primordial power spectra and cosmological observations	Bob Room
12:40-2:00 PM	Lunch		Black Hole Bistro
2:00-2:50 PM	Neal Dalal, CITA	Dark Matter Halos	Bob Room
2:50-3:40 PM	David Rapetti, Stanford University/KIPAC	Constraints on dark energy, cluster astrophysics, modified gravity and neutrino properties from the observed growth	Bob Room
3:40-4:00 PM	Coffee Break		Black Hole Bistro
4:00-4:50 PM	Martin Haehnelt, Cambridge University	How cold is dark matter?	Bob Room
4:50-5:40 PM	Louis Leblond, Perimeter Institute	Gravitational Waves from a Decaying Network of Cosmic Strings	Bob Room
6:00 PM	Dinner	(Location TBA)	Uptown Waterloo

This conference is jointly coordinated by Perimeter Institute and CITA. It is also funded in part by the Cosmology and Gravity Program of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research.

Free parking is available close to the Perimeter Institute. Please obtain a parking pass from Sheena Gilks at the front desk before the meeting starts. Parking will be availble in the Bauer Lot on Father David Bauer Drive across from the Waterloo Recreation Complex.

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