Talks for the conference.

Understanding cosmological observations

2017, Jul 30 -- Aug 11

Organizers:
D. Blas (CERN)
C. Byrnes (Sussex)
R. Crittenden (Portsmouth)
M. Crocce (ICE)
R. Flauger (Texas)
A. Lewis (Sussex)
S. Nadathur (Portsmouth)
R. Smith (Sussex)
F. Vernizzi (Saclay)

Monday, July 31

09:00h	Registration

09:30h	Overview on Gravitaitonal Waves from the early Universe
	Daniel Figueroa
11:15h	GW from Primordial Black Holes as Dark Matter and Inflation
	Juan Garcia Bellido

Tuesday, August 01

09:30h	Position-dependent Power Spectrum
	Eiichiro Komatsu
11:15h	Counts-in-cells statistics - from theory towards galaxy surveys
	Cora Uhlemann
11:50h	Latest eBOSS BAO analysis of the DR-14 quasars at 1
	Hector Gil Marin

Wednesday, August 02

17:30h	The Flattened Road Toward Cosmic Acceleration in String Theory
	Alexander Westphal
19:15h	Role and symmetries of DBI inflation, G-inflation and their super symmetric partners
	Diederik Roest
19:50h	Inflationary dynamics, models and fine tuning
	Richard Easther

Thursday, August 03

09:30h	Towards an efficient description of cosmic Large-Scale Structure
	Sergey Sibiryakov
11:15h	Screening in perturbative approaches to LSS
	Matteo Fasiello
11:50h	Probing dark energy with cosmic voids
	Ixandra Achitouv

Friday, August 04

09:30h	Overviewing the Dark Energy Survey and some of its early results
	Josh Frieman
11:15h	DES Multi-Probe Methodology and Simulated Likelihood Analyses
	Elizabeth Krause

Monday, August 07

09:30h	Machine learning for classification in cosmology
	Hiranya Peiris
11:15h	Problems with KiDS
	Benjamin Joachimi
11:50h	KiDS-450+2dFLenS: Cosmological constraints from WL tomography and overlapping redshift-space galaxy clustering
	Shahab Joudaki

Tuesday, August 08

09:30h	Probing small-scale structure with ALMA
	Neal Dalal
11:15h	Cluster Cosmology
	Eduardo Rozo
11:50h	Studying the expansion of the Universe with quasar spectra
	Andreu Font Rivera

Wednesday, August 09

18:00h	Dark matter dynamics in collisionless simulations
	Oliver Hahn
19:45h	Signatures of primordial tensor modes (tensor fossils)
	Ema Dimastrogiovanni
20:20h	Broken symmetries and tensor non-Gaussianities
	Gianmassimo Tasinato

Thursday, August 10

09:30h	Inflation, perturbations and symmetries
	Subodh Patil
11:15h	Contributed talk: A cleaner Baryon Acoustic Oscillations standard ruler: the Linear Point
	Stefano Anselmi
11:35h	Contributed talk: Analogue condensed matter systems for cosmology
	Jonathan Braden
11:55h	Contributed talk: Supermassive Black Holes from Dissipative Dark Matter
	Guido D'Amico
14:30h	Does space expand?
	Pierre Fleury and Nick Kaiser
15:30h	CMB foregrounds and future CMB B-mode searches
	Raphael Flauger
17:00h	Probes of massive neutrinos in cosmology
	Andreu Font-Ribera
18:00h	Cosmo Tools
	Antony Lewis and Jesus Torrado