2015: The Spacetime Odyssey Continues

2 Jun 2015, 09:00 → 5 Jun 2015, 18:00 Europe/Stockholm

Piperska Muren, Stockholm

Ariel Goobar, Chad Finley, Christopher Savage, Douglas Spolyar, Irina Galstyan, Jan Conrad, Joakim Edsjö, Katherine Freese, Lars Bergström (OKC), Sabine Hossenfelder, Stefan Vogl, Tomi Koivisto

Ladies from the Spacetime Odyssey (click on photo to enlarge).

Group photo from the conference outside Piperska Muren (click on photo to enlarge)

Group photo from the conference dinner in the Hall of Mirrors in Grand Hotel (click on photo to enlarge)

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Venue

Piperska Muren, Stockholm, Sweden

Scope

The plan of the conference is a 4-day celebration of the remarkable advances in the fields of particle physics and cosmology from the turn of the millennium to the present day. There will be a series of talks and panels over the course of the four days by the invited participants. The conference will take place at a 17th century estate Piperska Muren in central Stockholm.

Agenda for the conference

Confirmed participants:

Andreas Albrecht Elena Aprile Frank Avignone Laura Baudis Olga Botner Francois Bouchet Marcela Carena Sasha Dolgov Andrzej Drukier Kari Enqvist Christer Fuglesang

Graciela Gelmini Paolo Gondolo Shirley Ho Katri Huitu Dragan Huterer Cecilia Jarlskog Kimmo Kainulainen Gordon Kane Will Kinney Joseph Lykken Grant Mathews

Laura Mersini-Houghton Emil Mottola Antti Niemi Neils Obers Angela Olinto Lisa Randall Tanja Rindler-Daller Graca Rocha Leszek Roszkowski Bernard Sadoulet Pierre Salati

Pearl Sandick Subir Sarkar Paul Shapiro David Spergel Glenn Starkman Leo Stodolsky Larus Thorlacius Mark Trodden Michael Turner Yun Wang Frank Wilczek

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Social Events

2 June: Reception at Stockholm City Hall

3 June: Dinner in "Spegelsalen" (Hall of Mirrors) at Grand Hotel

4 June: Boat trip with dinner to the Stockholm Archipelago

Registration

This conference is by invitation only.

Please fill in the registration form to help us plan your accommodation and other aspects of the conference. You will be informed by the hotel about the details of your accommodation as soon as the reservations have been made. Deadline for registration is 22 March 2015.

Accommodation

Nordita provides accommodation in a Stockholm hotel for invited participants.

Sponsored by:

Tuesday 2 June

09:00 → 10:00 Registration / Coffee

10:00 → 10:10 Welcome

Speaker: Katherine Freese (Nordita and Stockholm University)

10:10 → 10:50 Cosmology in the New Millennium

Speaker: David Spergel (Princeton University)

Slides spergel.pdf

10:50 → 11:30 Theoretical Cosmology in the 21st Century

Speaker: Lisa Randall

Slides randall.pdf

11:30 → 12:00 Cosmic Microwave Background

Speaker: Francois Bouchet (IAP (Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris ))

Slides bouchet.pdf (reduced file size)

12:00 → 13:30 Lunch

13:30 → 14:00 Dark Energy Theory

Speaker: Mark Trodden (University of Pennsylvania)

Slides trodden.pdf

14:00 → 14:30 Dark Energy Observations: DES and beyond

Speaker: Dragan Huterer (University of Michigan)

Slides huterer.pdf (reduced file size)

14:30 → 15:00 Particle Theory, Cosmology, and the LHC

Speaker: Pearl Sandick (University of Utah)

Slides sandick.pdf

15:00 → 15:30 Coffee Break

15:30 → 16:00 Inflation

Speaker: Will Kinney (University of Buffalo, the State University of New York)

Slides kinney.pdf

16:00 → 16:30 Dark Matter Theory

Speaker: Paolo Gondolo (University of Utah)

Slides gondolo.pdf (reduced file size)

16:30 → 17:00 Dark Matter Experiment

Speaker: Bernard Sadoulet (University of California at Berkeley)

Slides sadoulet.pdf

19:00 → 21:00 Tour and Dinner, Stockholm City Hall

The doors close at 19:00, so please be there 10-15 minutes earlier. You must have an invitation to be allowed to enter (provided when you register).

Wednesday 3 June

10:00 → 10:30 Future Strategy of CRESST

Speaker: Leo Stodolsky (Max-Planck-Institut für Physik)

Slides stodolsky.pdf

10:30 → 11:00 Highlights from the XENON dark matter search

Speaker: Laura Baudis (University of Zurich)

Slides baudis.pdf (reduced file size)

11:00 → 11:30 Smoking Guns of Supersymmetric Dark Matter

Speaker: Leszek Roszkowski

Slides roszkowski.pdf (reduced file size)

12:00 → 13:00 Lunch

13:00 → 13:30 Target element dependence of the annual modulation in direct searches

Speaker: Graciela Gelmini (UCLA)

Slides gelmini.pdf

13:30 → 14:00 Axions and ALP Searches with CUORE and Majorana

Speaker: Frank Avignone (University of South Carolina)

Slides avignone.pdf

14:00 → 14:30 Macroscopic Dark Matter

Speaker: Glenn Starkman (Case Western Reserve University)

Slides starkman.pdf (reduced file size)

14:30 → 15:00 Planck

Speaker: Graca Rocha (Jet Propulsion Laboratory, JPL, Caltech)

Slides rocha.pdf (reduced file size)

15:00 → 15:30 Coffee Break

15:30 → 16:00 The International Space Station

Speaker: Christer Fuglesang (KTH, Physics Department)

Slides fuglesang.pdf fuglesang_reduced.pptx

16:00 → 16:30 How to learn to love the BOSS: Dark Energy, Gravity and Beyond

Speaker: Shirley Ho (Carnegie Mellon University)

Slides ho.pdf (reduced file size)

16:30 → 17:00 Probing Dark Energy With Galaxy Clustering

Speaker: Yun Wang (IPAC, California Institute of Technology)

Slides wang.pdf

19:00 → 23:00 Dinner at the Grand Hotel

Thursday 4 June

10:00 → 10:30 Origin of probabilities and their application to the multiverse

Speaker: Andy Albrecht (UC Davis)

Slides albrecht.pdf

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 → 11:30 Particle physics beyond the Higgs

Speaker: Marcela Carena (Fermilab and University of Chicago)

Slides carena.pdf carena_reduced.pdf

11:30 → 12:00 The return of Newton-Cartan spacetime

Speaker: Niels Obers (Niels Bohr Institute)

Slides obers.pdf

12:00 → 12:30 The Initial Condition of the Universe

Speaker: Laura Mersini-Houghton (UNC- Chapel Hill)

Slides mersini-houghton.pdf

12:30 → 13:30 Lunch

13:30 → 14:00 Antiproton cosmic rays: Has dark matter been detected?

Speaker: Pierre Salati (LAPTh and Université de Savoie Mont-Blanc)

Slides salati.pdf (reduced file size)

14:00 → 14:30 From Planck scale M-theory to predictions of superpartners at LHC soon… and what about dark matter?

Speaker: Gordon Kane (University of Michigan)

Slides kane.pdf

14:30 → 15:00 Puzzles of objects created very early in the Universe

Speaker: Alexander Dolgov (Novosibirsk State University)

Slides dolgov.pdf

15:00 → 18:30 Free afternoon

A free afternoon is provided to go out and explore Stockholm. Here are some suggestions:

• Visit Nordita and attend the Albanova Colloquium at 15:15
• Visit the Vasa Ship, one of the historical marvels of the world (closes at 18:00)
• Visit Gamla Stan (the old city)

18:30 → 22:30 Boat Tour of the Archipelago including Dinner

Friday 5 June

09:30 → 10:00 Gravitational Condensate Stars: The (Quantum) Matter with Black Holes

Speaker: Emil Mottola (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

Slides mottola.pdf

10:00 → 10:15 Constraints on the birth of the universe and cosmic dark flow

Speaker: Grant Mathews (Center for Astrophysics at Notre Dame University)

Slides mathews.pdf

10:15 → 10:30 Coffee Break

10:30 → 11:00 Neutrino Geology

Speaker: Andrzej Drukier (BioTraces, Inc.)

Slides drukier.pdf

11:00 → 11:30 High Energy Cosmic Rays

Speaker: Angela V Olinto (The University of Chicago)

Slides olinto.pdf

11:30 → 12:00 Electroweak Baryogenesis

Speaker: Kimmo Kainulainen (University of Jyvaskyla)

Slides kainulainen.pdf

12:00 → 13:00 Lunch

13:00 → 13:30 Dark Stars

Speaker: Tanja Rindler-Daller (University of Michigan)

Slides rindlerdaller.pdf

13:30 → 14:00 Reionization in the Universe

Speaker: Paul Shapiro (University of Texas at Austin)

Slides shapiro.pdf

14:00 → 14:30 The Great Collider in the Sky

Speaker: Subir Sarkar (University of Oxford & NBI Copenhagen)

Slides sarkar.pdf

14:30 → 15:00 Lessons from Through the Wormhole: Communicating Science

Speaker: Tony Lund

15:00 → 15:30 Coffee Break

15:30 → 16:00 Correlation Hunting

Speaker: Frank Wilczek (MIT)

Slides wilczek.pdf

16:00 → 16:30 Xenon for the Future

Speaker: Elena Aprile (Columbia University)

Slides aprile.pdf (reduced file size)

16:30 → 17:00 Concluding Talk

Speaker: Michael Turner (The University of Chicago)

Slides turner.pdf

17:00 → 17:30 End of Conference

18:00 → 20:00 Barbeque at Nordita followed by Dancing at Café Opera