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)
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Monday, August 04
Tuesday, August 05
Wednesday, August 06
Thursday, August 07
Friday, August 08
Monday, August 11
Tuesday, August 12
Wednesday, August 13
Thursday, August 14
Friday, August 15
| Introduction | |
| Dani G. Figueroa (Geneva U.) | |
| Mildly non-linear effects in the large scale structure: resummation vs effective approaches | |
| Diego Blas (CERN) | |
| Random walks through Cosmic Epochs | |
| Gerasimos Rigopoulos (Heidelberg U.) | |
| Discussion Session: Bias, redshift-space distortions, etc | |
| V. Desjacques (Geneva U.), H. Gil-Marin (Portsmouth) and M. Manera (UCL London) |
Tuesday, August 05
| HeII-ionizing background fluctuations from clustered sources | |
| Vincent Desjacques (Geneva U.) | |
| Relativistic effects in large-scale structure | |
| Camille Bonvin (Cambridge U.) |
Wednesday, August 06
| The large-scale structure of the Higgs vacuum | |
| Antonio Maroto (Madrid U.) | |
| Non-local infrared modifications of gravity | |
| Stefano Foffa (Geneva U.) | |
| Subtleties in Higgs-inflation | |
| Marieke Postma (Nikhef) |
Thursday, August 07
| The MICE simulations for cosmological surveys: DES, PAU, DESI and Euclid | |
| Francisco Castander (IEEC-CSIC) | |
| A Supervoid Imprinting the Cold Spot in the Cosmic Microwave Background | |
| Francesco Paci (SISSA) | |
| New observables for future CMB anisotropy observations | |
| Antony Lewis (Sussex U.) | |
| Discussion Session: Cold spots and super-voids | |
| S. Nadathur (Helsinki U.), others |
Friday, August 08
| Cosmology meets Quantum Gravity ? | |
| Sergey Sibiryakov (CERN) | |
| Dissipation during inflation: Warm inflation after Planck | |
| Mar Bastero-Gil (Granada U.) |
Monday, August 11
| HALOgen: a tool for fast generation of halo mock catalogs | |
| Santiago Avila (IFT, Madrid) | |
| Nonlocal bias with and without massive neutrinos | |
| Matteo Biagetti (Geneva U.) | |
| Relativistic galaxy number counts: spectrum and bispectrum | |
| Francesco Montanari (Geneva U.) | |
| Measuring Baryon Acoustic Oscillations with the Dark Energy Survey | |
| Ana Isabel (Madrid, IFT) + F. Javier Sanchez (CIEMAT, Madrid) | |
| The Cosmic Web: Large Scale Structure in Different Geometric Environments | |
| Lizzie Eardley (Edimburgh U.) | |
| Measuring the growth of matter fluctuations with third-order galaxy correlations | |
| Kai Hoffmann (ICE, Barcelona) | |
| Light propagation in the averaged universe | |
| Samae Bagheri (Bielefeld U.) | |
| Scalar perturbations in f(R)-gravity in the late Universe | |
| Jan Novak (MIAS, Prague) | |
| Renormalization of fermion fields in cosmological spacetimes | |
| Paco Torrenti (IFT Madrid) | |
| Late time quantum backreaction in cosmology | |
| Drazen Glavan (Utrech U.) |
Tuesday, August 12
| Gauge invariant Cosmological Perturbations, Unitarity and Frame Independece in Higgs Inflation | |
| Tomislav Prokopec (Utrech U.) | |
| Infrared physics of inflationary correlation functions | |
| Yuko Urakawa (Nagoya U.) |
Wednesday, August 13
| Testing Gravity on Cosmological Scales | |
| Ignacy Sawicki (Geneva U.) | |
| Transforming gravity: islands of stability beyond the land of Horndeski | |
| Miguel Zumalacarregui (Heidelberg U.) | |
| Dark Matter - present situation and future prospects | |
| Lars Bergstrom (Stockholm U.) | |
| Constraining cosmic growth combining WiggleZ and BOSS galaxies | |
| Felipe Marin (Swinburne U.) | |
| The power spectrum and bispectrum of the CMASS BOSS galaxies | |
| Hector Gil-Marin (Portsmouth U.) | |
| Remapping cosmological simulations from standard to modified gravity | |
| Alex Mead (Edimburgh U.) | |
| Challenges for HI intensity mapping | |
| David Alonso (Oxford U.) |
Thursday, August 14
| The curvaton scenario: Pre and post BICEP | |
| Chris Byrnes (Sussex U.) | |
| Perturbative reheating after multiple field Inflation | |
| Ewan Tarrant (Sussex U.) | |
| Analytic reheating | |
| Joseph Elliston (Sussex U.) | |
| Probing the inflationary Universe with gravitational waves | |
| Tomo Takahashi (Saga U.) |
Friday, August 15
| Large-scale structure, non-Gaussianity, and gravitational waves | |
| Fabian Schmidt (MPA Munich) | |
| N-body methods for relativistic cosmology | |
| Julian Adamek (Geneva U.) | |
| Relativistic corrections in cosmological modelling | |
| Chris Clarkson (Cape Town U.) |
This session has received financial support from the following institutions:
