Cosmology, Strings, and Phenomenology Conference

Name: Cosmology, Strings, and Phenomenology Conference
Start: 2007-06-11T08:00:00+02:00
End: 2007-06-20T18:00:00+02:00
Location: Oscar Klein Auditorium, AlbaNova University Center, Stockholm

11 Jun 2007, 08:00 → 20 Jun 2007, 18:00 Europe/Stockholm

Oscar Klein Auditorium, AlbaNova University Center, Stockholm

Anupam Mazumdar, Ariel Goobar, Lars Bergström, Ulf Danielsson

Description

Workshop:	June 11 - June 15, 2007
Conference:	June 17 - June 20, 2007

Host and Funding

To Nordic Students and Post-Docs

Limited funds are available for Nordic post-docs and students. If you wish to be considered, apply to the workshop secretary Anne Jifält (anne at kth.se) by April 15 with your List of Publications. Travel arrangements have to be made and paid from your home institution. Shared accomodation in double rooms will be provided and covered by us. Therefore Nordic students and postdocs those who wish to apply for accommodation DO NOT book your own.

Local Organisers

Lars Bergström, AlbaNova University Center, Stockholm University
Ulf Danielsson, Uppsala University
Ariel Goobar, AlbaNova University Center, Stockholm University
Anupam Mazumdar, Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics

Advisory Committees

International Advisory Committee
Michael Dine (Santa Cruz)	Richard Ellis (Caltech)	Renata Kallosh (Stanford))
Gordon Kane (Michigan)	Edward W Kolb (Chicago)	Andrei Linde (Stanford)
Slava Mukhanov (Munich)	Lyman Page (Princeton)	Saul Perlmutter (LBL)
Joe Polchinski (UCSB)	Fernando Quevedo (Cambridge)	Alexei Smirnov (ICTP)
Max Tegmark (MIT)	Gabriele Veneziano (CERN)
Nordic Advisory Committee
Jan Ambjörn (NBI)	Axel Brandenburg (NORDITA)	Lars Brink (Chalmers)
Poul Henrik Damgaard (NBI)	Paolo Di Vecchia (NORDITA)	Øystein Elgarøy (Oslo)
Kari Enqvist (Helsinki)	Steen Hannestad (Aarhus)	Cecilia Jarlskog (Lund)
Niels Obers (NBI)	Poul Olesen (NBI)	Hector Rubinstein (AlbaNova)
Lárus Thorlacius (Iceland)

Workshop Secretary

Anne Jifält (anne at kth.se)

Funding Agencies

This workshop is funded by Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics (NORDITA), the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences through its Nobel Institute for Physics and the Swedish Research Council.

Sunday 17 June
- 14:00 → 14:15
  
  Welcome 15m
  
  Speaker: Lars Bergström (Stockholm)
- 14:15 → 14:55
  
  An Experimentalist's Perspective on Testing Field Theories with the CMB 40m
  
  Speaker: Lyman Page (Princeton)
  
  Presentation
  
  Video
- 14:55 → 15:35
  
  Status of the Super Nova Legacy Survey 40m
  
  Speaker: Reynald Pain
  
  Presentation
  
  Video
- 15:35 → 16:05
  
  break 30m
- 16:05 → 16:45
  
  Update from SDSS: Wiggles and Bangs 40m
  
  Speaker: Bob Nichol (Portsmouth)
  
  Presentation
- 16:45 → 17:25
  
  Neutrino properties from cosmological observations 40m
  
  Speaker: Steen Hannestad
Monday 18 June
- 09:00 → 09:40
  
  New Cosmic Maps & Measurements 40m
  
  Speaker: Max Tegmark
  
  Presentation
- 09:40 → 10:20
  
  Does Dark Energy exist? 40m
  
  Speaker: Subir Sarkar
  
  Presentation
- 10:20 → 10:50
  
  Cofee break 30m
- 10:50 → 11:30
  
  Graviton production in braneworlds by the dynamical Casimir effect 40m
  
  Speaker: Ruth Durrer (Geneva)
- 11:30 → 12:10
  
  Astrophysical constraints to dark-matter properties 40m
  
  Speaker: Marc Kamionkowski
- 12:10 → 12:50
  
  Tachyon Condensation, String Gases and Structure Formation 40m
  
  Speaker: Robert Brandenberger
- 12:50 → 14:20
  
  Lunch break 1h 30m
- 14:20 → 15:00
  
  Inflationary Cosmology 40m
  
  Speaker: Andrei Linde (Stanford)
  
  Presentation
- 15:00 → 15:40
  
  MSSM Inflation 40m
  
  Speaker: Kari Enqvist
- 15:40 → 16:25
  
  k-Essense, superluminal propagation and causality causality 45m
  
  Speaker: Slava Mukhanov
- 19:00 → 23:00
  
  Conference dinner - BOAT TRIP 4h
Tuesday 19 June
- 09:00 → 09:40
  
  Dark matter's X-files 40m
  
  Speaker: Alexander Kusenko (UCLA)
  
  Presentation
- 09:40 → 10:20
  
  UV modes on co-dimension 2 branes and the vacuum energy 40m
  
  Speaker: Cliff Burgess
  
  Presentation
- 10:20 → 10:50
  
  coffe break 30m
- 10:50 → 11:30
  
  Thermodynamics of Large AdS Black Holes 40m
  
  Speaker: Larus Thorlacius
  
  Presentation
- 11:30 → 12:10
  
  Black Holes and Hierarchies 40m
  
  Speaker: Gia Dvali (NYU)
- 12:10 → 13:40
  
  Lunch break 1h 30m
- 13:40 → 14:20
  
  cosmological and astrophysical implications of large volume string models 40m
  
  Speaker: Fernando Quevedo
  
  Presentation
- 14:20 → 15:00
  
  Particle physics from string theory with D-branes--New non-perturbative effects 40m
  
  Speaker: Mirjam cvetic
  
  Presentation
- 15:00 → 15:30
  
  Coffe break 30m
- 15:30 → 16:30
  
  The 2007 Klein Lecture: String theory, gravity, and cosmology 1h
  
  Speaker: Gabriele Veneziano (CERN)
  
  Presentation
Wednesday 20 June
- 09:00 → 09:40
  
  Strings, gravity, and nonlocality 40m
  
  Speaker: Steve Giddings (UC Santa Barbara)
  
  Presentation
- 09:40 → 10:20
  
  Metastable supersymmetry breaking in string theory 40m
  
  Speaker: Shamit Kachru
- 10:20 → 10:50
  
  coffee break 30m
- 10:50 → 11:30
  
  String cosmology 40m
  
  Speaker: Renata Kallosh (Stanford)
  
  Presentation
- 11:30 → 12:10
  
  Challenging the Cosmological Constant 40m
  
  Speaker: Nemanja Kaloper (UC Davis)
- 12:10 → 13:45
  
  Lunch break 1h 35m
- 13:45 → 14:25
  
  Where is Supersymmetry ? 40m
  
  Speaker: Savas Dimopoulos
  
  Presentation
- 14:25 → 14:55
  
  coffee - end of conference 30m
- 18:00 → 20:00
  
  Reception at City Hall 2h

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