Inflation After WMAP
workshop
Michigan Center for Theoretical Physics
MAY 18 - MAY 20, 2006

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WORKSHOP PROGRAM
(Seminar Room: 335 West hall, Refreshments and Collaboration: 3481 Randall Lab)

The workshop will begin on May 18th at 2PM and conclude on May 20 in the afternoon.

 

Thursday May, 18

2:15 PM Welcome and Introduction by Katherine Freese
2:30 PM Daniel Chung (Univ. of Wisconsin) "Supersymmetry and Inflationary Cosmology"
3:15 PM Scott Watson (Univ. of Toronto, CITA) "What can WMAP tell us about string theory?"
4:00 PM Paul Steinhardt (Princeton University) MCTP Colloquium "Inflation after WMAP "
5:15 PM MCTP Reception  (Don Meyers Commons Room)

 

Friday, May 19, 2006

10:00 AM Licia Verde (Univ. of Pennsylvania) “Inflation after 3 years of WMAP: Part I”
10:45 AM Hiranya Peiris (Univ. of Chicago) “Inflation after 3 years of WMAP: Part II”
11:30 AM John Ruhl (Case Western Reserve University) "TBA”
12:15 PM Lunch
2:00 PM Henry Tye (Cornell University) "Brane Inflation, an Update"
2:45 PM Chris Savage (U of M) "Natural Inflation after WMAP"
3:30 PM Richard Easther (Yale University) “Scalar Field Dynamics and Constraints on Inflation”
4:15 PM Afternoon Break
4:45 PM Asantha Cooray (Univ. of California-Irvine) "TBA"
5:30 PM Kenji Kadota (Fermilab) "Inflation Phenomenology in Supergravity"
6:00 PM Dinner at Dominick's

 

Saturday, May 20, 2006

10:00 AM Elena Pierpaoli (Caltech) "TBA”
10:45 AM Laura Mersini (Univ. of North Carolina) "Gravity, Thermodynamics, and the Landscape"
11:30 PM Chris Gordon (Univ. of Chicago) "Inflation and Large Angle Anomalies in the CMB”
12:00 PM Lunch
2:00 PM Hassan Firouzjahi (Cornell University) "Cosmic strings tension and WMAP1&3"
2:30 PM Sarah Shandera (Cornell University) "TBA”
3:00 PM Joan Simon (Univ. of Pennsylvania) “Topology of hidden dimensions from cosmology”
3:30 PM  Afternoon Break
4:00 PM  Pascal Vaudrevange (Univ. of Toronto, CITA) "Scanning Inflation”
4:30 PM  Amit Yadav (Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) "A new way of Probing the Early Universe"

 



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