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
- 1
  
  Welcome
  
  Speaker: Lars Bergström (Stockholm)
- 2
  
  An Experimentalist's Perspective on Testing Field Theories with the CMB
  
  Speaker: Lyman Page (Princeton)
  
  Presentation
  
  Video
- 3
  
  Status of the Super Nova Legacy Survey
  
  Speaker: Reynald Pain
  
  Presentation
  
  Video
- 15:35
  
  break
- 4
  
  Update from SDSS: Wiggles and Bangs
  
  Speaker: Bob Nichol (Portsmouth)
  
  Presentation
- 5
  
  Neutrino properties from cosmological observations
  
  Speaker: Steen Hannestad
Monday, 18 June
- 6
  
  New Cosmic Maps & Measurements
  
  Speaker: Max Tegmark
  
  Presentation
- 7
  
  Does Dark Energy exist?
  
  Speaker: Subir Sarkar
  
  Presentation
- 10:20
  
  Cofee break
- 8
  
  Graviton production in braneworlds by the dynamical Casimir effect
  
  Speaker: Ruth Durrer (Geneva)
- 9
  
  Astrophysical constraints to dark-matter properties
  
  Speaker: Marc Kamionkowski
- 10
  
  Tachyon Condensation, String Gases and Structure Formation
  
  Speaker: Robert Brandenberger
- 12:50
  
  Lunch break
- 11
  
  Inflationary Cosmology
  
  Speaker: Andrei Linde (Stanford)
  
  Presentation
- 12
  
  MSSM Inflation
  
  Speaker: Kari Enqvist
- 13
  
  k-Essense, superluminal propagation and causality causality
  
  Speaker: Slava Mukhanov
- 19:00
  
  Conference dinner - BOAT TRIP
Tuesday, 19 June
- 14
  
  Dark matter's X-files
  
  Speaker: Alexander Kusenko (UCLA)
  
  Presentation
- 15
  
  UV modes on co-dimension 2 branes and the vacuum energy
  
  Speaker: Cliff Burgess
  
  Presentation
- 10:20
  
  coffe break
- 16
  
  Thermodynamics of Large AdS Black Holes
  
  Speaker: Larus Thorlacius
  
  Presentation
- 17
  
  Black Holes and Hierarchies
  
  Speaker: Gia Dvali (NYU)
- 12:10
  
  Lunch break
- 18
  
  cosmological and astrophysical implications of large volume string models
  
  Speaker: Fernando Quevedo
  
  Presentation
- 19
  
  Particle physics from string theory with D-branes--New non-perturbative effects
  
  Speaker: Mirjam cvetic
  
  Presentation
- 15:00
  
  Coffe break
- 20
  
  The 2007 Klein Lecture: String theory, gravity, and cosmology
  
  Speaker: Gabriele Veneziano (CERN)
  
  Presentation
Wednesday, 20 June
- 21
  
  Strings, gravity, and nonlocality
  
  Speaker: Steve Giddings (UC Santa Barbara)
  
  Presentation
- 22
  
  Metastable supersymmetry breaking in string theory
  
  Speaker: Shamit Kachru
- 10:20
  
  coffee break
- 23
  
  String cosmology
  
  Speaker: Renata Kallosh (Stanford)
  
  Presentation
- 24
  
  Challenging the Cosmological Constant
  
  Speaker: Nemanja Kaloper (UC Davis)
- 12:10
  
  Lunch break
- 25
  
  Where is Supersymmetry ?
  
  Speaker: Savas Dimopoulos
  
  Presentation
- 14:25
  
  coffee - end of conference
- 18:00
  
  Reception at City Hall