Talks for the conference.

Modern Cosmology: Early Universe, CMB and LSS

2014, Aug 03 -- Aug 16

Organizers:
R. Durrer (UniGE, Geneva)
D. G. Figueroa (UniGE, Geneva)
J. Frieman (Fermilab, Chicago)
J. García-Bellido (IFT, Madrid)
E. Gaztañaga (ICE IEEC/CSIC, Barcelona)

Monday, August 04

09:45h	Introduction
	Dani G. Figueroa (Geneva U.)
10:00h	Mildly non-linear effects in the large scale structure: resummation vs effective approaches
	Diego Blas (CERN)
11:30h	Random walks through Cosmic Epochs
	Gerasimos Rigopoulos (Heidelberg U.)
18:00h	Discussion Session: Bias, redshift-space distortions, etc
	V. Desjacques (Geneva U.), H. Gil-Marin (Portsmouth) and M. Manera (UCL London)

Tuesday, August 05

10:00h	HeII-ionizing background fluctuations from clustered sources
	Vincent Desjacques (Geneva U.)
11:30h	Relativistic effects in large-scale structure
	Camille Bonvin (Cambridge U.)

Wednesday, August 06

18:00h	The large-scale structure of the Higgs vacuum
	Antonio Maroto (Madrid U.)
18:55h	Non-local infrared modifications of gravity
	Stefano Foffa (Geneva U.)
19:20h	Subtleties in Higgs-inflation
	Marieke Postma (Nikhef)

Thursday, August 07

10:00h	The MICE simulations for cosmological surveys: DES, PAU, DESI and Euclid
	Francisco Castander (IEEC-CSIC)
10:55h	A Supervoid Imprinting the Cold Spot in the Cosmic Microwave Background
	Francesco Paci (SISSA)
11:40h	New observables for future CMB anisotropy observations
	Antony Lewis (Sussex U.)
18:00h	Discussion Session: Cold spots and super-voids
	S. Nadathur (Helsinki U.), others

Friday, August 08

10:00h	Cosmology meets Quantum Gravity ?
	Sergey Sibiryakov (CERN)
11:30h	Dissipation during inflation: Warm inflation after Planck
	Mar Bastero-Gil (Granada U.)

Monday, August 11

10:00h	HALOgen: a tool for fast generation of halo mock catalogs
	Santiago Avila (IFT, Madrid)
10:20h	Nonlocal bias with and without massive neutrinos
	Matteo Biagetti (Geneva U.)
10:40h	Relativistic galaxy number counts: spectrum and bispectrum
	Francesco Montanari (Geneva U.)
11:00h	Measuring Baryon Acoustic Oscillations with the Dark Energy Survey
	Ana Isabel (Madrid, IFT) + F. Javier Sanchez (CIEMAT, Madrid)
11:40h	The Cosmic Web: Large Scale Structure in Different Geometric Environments
	Lizzie Eardley (Edimburgh U.)
12:00h	Measuring the growth of matter fluctuations with third-order galaxy correlations
	Kai Hoffmann (ICE, Barcelona)
12:20h	Light propagation in the averaged universe
	Samae Bagheri (Bielefeld U.)
18:00h	Scalar perturbations in f(R)-gravity in the late Universe
	Jan Novak (MIAS, Prague)
18:20h	Renormalization of fermion fields in cosmological spacetimes
	Paco Torrenti (IFT Madrid)
18:40h	Late time quantum backreaction in cosmology
	Drazen Glavan (Utrech U.)

Tuesday, August 12

18:00h	Gauge invariant Cosmological Perturbations, Unitarity and Frame Independece in Higgs Inflation
	Tomislav Prokopec (Utrech U.)
19:00h	Infrared physics of inflationary correlation functions
	Yuko Urakawa (Nagoya U.)

Wednesday, August 13

10:00h	Testing Gravity on Cosmological Scales
	Ignacy Sawicki (Geneva U.)
10:55h	Transforming gravity: islands of stability beyond the land of Horndeski
	Miguel Zumalacarregui (Heidelberg U.)
11:40h	Dark Matter - present situation and future prospects
	Lars Bergstrom (Stockholm U.)
18:00h	Constraining cosmic growth combining WiggleZ and BOSS galaxies
	Felipe Marin (Swinburne U.)
18:30h	The power spectrum and bispectrum of the CMASS BOSS galaxies
	Hector Gil-Marin (Portsmouth U.)
19:00h	Remapping cosmological simulations from standard to modified gravity
	Alex Mead (Edimburgh U.)
19:30h	Challenges for HI intensity mapping
	David Alonso (Oxford U.)

Thursday, August 14

10:00h	The curvaton scenario: Pre and post BICEP
	Chris Byrnes (Sussex U.)
10:30h	Perturbative reheating after multiple field Inflation
	Ewan Tarrant (Sussex U.)
10:45h	Analytic reheating
	Joseph Elliston (Sussex U.)
11:40h	Probing the inflationary Universe with gravitational waves
	Tomo Takahashi (Saga U.)

Friday, August 15

10:00h	Large-scale structure, non-Gaussianity, and gravitational waves
	Fabian Schmidt (MPA Munich)
10:55h	N-body methods for relativistic cosmology
	Julian Adamek (Geneva U.)
11:40h	Relativistic corrections in cosmological modelling
	Chris Clarkson (Cape Town U.)