Modern Cosmology, Inflation, CMB and LSS

2006, July 30-August 18

Monday, July 31 10:00h Inflation after 3 years of WMAP data   Hiranya Peiris 12:00h The ACT experiment   Raul Jimenez 18:00h CMB observations from Tenerife: impact on foregrounds and power spectrum at high multipoles   Rafael Rebolo Tuesday, August 01 09:00h Dark energy and the CMB   Robert Crittenden 11:00h Missing Thermal Energy of the Universe: SZ effect in the CMB   Niayesh Afshordi 12:00h Mysteries at Universe's Largest Scales   Dragan Huterer 18:00h Discussion session: Parameter estimation and statistical analysis: bayesian vs frequentist   Moderator: Antony Lewis Wednesday, August 02 10:00h Inflation models and observation   David Lyth 11:30h String/Brane Inflation   Cliff Burgess 18:00h Discussion session: Non-Gaussianities and Inflation   Chair: David Wands Thursday, August 03 10:00h Cosmology after WMAP-3yr   Olivier Doré 11:30h From dark energy to dark force: Linear and non-linear phenomenology of coupled dark energy models   Luca Amendola 18:00h Discussion Session on Dark Energy   Chairman: Ed Copeland Friday, August 04 10:00h Radiation-Induced Large Scale Structure   Rupert Croft 11:30h Signatures of the first stars in the 21cm Emission and Absorption Against the CMB   Jordi Miralda Escudé 18:00h Tomislav Prokopec: A new dark matter candidate, Licia Verde: Kahler Inflation and Cosmology   Chairman: Enrique Gaztañaga 19:00h Lines in the CMB spectrum from the time of recombination   Alberto Rubino Martin Monday, August 07 10:00h Preheating after Inflation   Lev Kofman 11:30h Gravitational waves from inflation   Slava Mukhanov 18:00h The CMB, gravity waves and inflation   Dick Bond Tuesday, August 08 10:00h Gravitational Lensing of the CMB   Wayne Hu 11:30h CMB and cluster lensing   Antony Lewis 18:00h WMAP 3-year Constraints on the Inflationary Expansion, Fabio Finelli, N-flationary magnetic fields, Lorenzo Sorbo   Chairman: Julien Lesgourgues Wednesday, August 09 10:00h The Ly-alpha forest / A renormalization group approach to LSS   Patrick McDonald 11:30h Brane Inflation   Anne Davis 18:00h Black hole solutions in massive gravity, Peter Tinyakov; Combining D-term inflation and moduli stabilization, Marieke Postma   Chairman: David Wands Thursday, August 10 10:00h The Cosmic Dark Ages   Chris Hirata 11:30h Constraining inverse curvature gravity with Supernovae   Jochen Weller 18:00h Discussion session on delta N formalism   Chairman: David Lyth & Misao Sasaki Friday, August 11 10:00h Modelling the imprint of baryons on the galaxy distribution   Carlton M. Baugh 11:30h The clusters conundrum   Alain Blanchard 19:00h Discussion session: The sigma eight problem   Chairman: Enrique Gaztañaga Monday, August 14 10:00h delta N formalism for inflationary curvature perturbations   Misao Sasaki 11:30h Strings with Junctions   Ed Copeland 18:00h Poster Session   at the school Tuesday, August 15 10:00h Astrophysical constraints at the light of the PVLAS axionlike particle   Eduard Masso 11:00h Neutrino masses from cosmological observables   Sergio Pastor 12:00h Baryo-through-leptogenesis and CP violation in neutrino oscillations   Jose Bernabeu Wednesday, August 16 10:00h CMB experiments, parameters and evidence   Anthony Lasenby 11:30h Nonlinear Evolution of Acoustic Oscillations   Roman Scoccimarro Thursday, August 17 10:00h Supernovae as Probes of Dark Energy   Josh Frieman 11:30h Simulating the Dark Energy Survey   Francisco Castander