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(I) General Structure for 4.5 days
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9:30 - 11:30
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overview/discussion
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11:30 - 12:00
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coffee break
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12:00 - 13:30
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3 talks - 30 mins each
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13:30 - 15:00
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lunch
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15:00 - 17:00
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overview/discussion
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17:00 - 17:30
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1 talk - 30 minutes
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(II) Preliminary Program:
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Monday:
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8:45 - 9:30
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Registration - In the Atrium |
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9:30 - 11:30
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L. Verde
"Why should you care about CMB experiments?"
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11:30 - 12:00
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coffee break
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12:00 - 13:30
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O. Dore
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"WMAP-1: 2 years after"
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P. Creminelli
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"Limits on non-gaussianities from WMAP data"
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P. McDonald
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"Large-scale structure from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey"
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15:00 - 17:00
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A. Liddle "Cosmological Model Selection and the Inflationary
Cosmology".
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17:00 - 17:30
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M. Peloso "Reheating and Thermalization after inflation"
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17:30 - 19:30
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Workshop Reception (in Bistro)
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Tuesday:
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9:30 - 11:30
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G. Horowitz "Singularities in String Theory"
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11:30 - 12:00
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coffee break
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12:00 - 13:30
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O. Winkler
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"Density perturbations in singularity-free quantum cosmology"
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D. Wesley
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"String Pair Production in a Time-Dependent Gravitational Field"
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A. Vilenkin
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"Anthropic prediction for Lambda and the Q catastrophe"
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15:00 - 17:00
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A. Goobar "Supernova observations and dark energy"
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17:00 - 17:30
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E. Linder "Dynamics of Dark Energy"
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Wednesday:
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9:30 - 10:30
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E. Adelberger "Laboratory tests of the Equivalence Principle and the Inverse Square Law"
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10:30 - 11:30
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G. Dvali "Cosmology and Gravity at Largest Observable Distances"
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11:30 - 12:00
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coffee break
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12:00 - 13:30
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C. Deffayet
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"Spherically symmetric solutions of massive gravity"
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J. Erickson
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"Testing the equivalence principle in the dark sector"
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S. Rasanen
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"Backreaction and late-time acceleration"
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15:00 - 16:00
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F. Denef "Constructions and distributions of string vacua"
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16:00 -17:00
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S. Kachru "Cosmology and particle physics of flux compactifications"
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17:00 - 17:30
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M. Kleban "Flattening the Landscape"
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Thursday:
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9:30 - 11:30
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D. Bond "CMB and LSS, now and then, and inflation, then and now"
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11:30 - 12:00
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coffee break
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12:00 - 13:30
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R. Easther
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"Observing Trans-Planckian Physics: Status and Prospects"
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M. Fairbairn
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"Tachyons in cosmology"
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B. Ovrut
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"The Heterotic Standard Model- A Venue for Early Universe Cosmology"
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15:00 - 17:00
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PANEL DISCUSSION
Discussion Leader: C. Burgess
"Cosmology: Playground for Fundamental Physics"
P. Binetruy, K. Freese, E. Linder, J. Magueijo
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Friday:
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9:30 - 10:30
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R. H. Brandenberger "50 years since WMAP"
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10:30 - 11:30
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N. Arkani-Hamed "50 Years Since the LHC"
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