==== The Particle Cosmology Frontier ====

[[http://particle.physics.ucdavis.edu/workshops/doku.php?id=2009:particlecosmo|workshop page]]

Thursday May 14, 2009

  *9:15 Dean Winston Ko: Welcome
  *9:30 - 10:30 AM   {{2009:may:bousso.mp3 |Raphael Bousso}}: "Think Global Act Causal: Complementarity in the Multiverse"
  *10:30 -11 AM      discussions/break
  *11 - 12 AM        {{2009:may:freivogel.mp3 |Ben Freivogel}}: "Anthropic Explanation of the Dark Matter Abundance"
  *12 - 12:30 PM     discussions/break
  *12:30 - 2 PM      lunch break

  *2 - 3 PM          Spencer Chang: {{2009:may:chang.pdf |"Cosmological Observables When Worlds Collide"}}
  *3 - 3:30 PM       discussions/break
  *3:30 - 4:30 PM    Matt Kleban: "{{2009:may:kleban.pdf |A Conformal Field Theory for Eternal Inflation}}"
  *4:30 - 5 PM       discussions/break
  *6 PM: Dinner 

Friday May 15, 2009

  *9:30 - 10:30 AM   {{2009:may:dubovsky.mp3 |Sergei Dubovsky}}: "Observing the String Axiverse with CMB polarization, CDM power spectrum and astrophysical black holes"
  *10:30 - 11 AM     discussions/break
  *11 - 12 AM        {{2009:may:westphal.mp3 |Alex Westphal}}: "Monodromy Inflation"
  *12 - 12:30 PM     discussions/break
12:30 - 2 PM      lunch break

  *2 - 3 PM          {{2009:may:peloso.mp3 |Marco Peloso}}: {{2009:may:peloso.pdf |"Breaking Statistical Isotropy"}}
  *3 - 3:30 PM       discussions/break
  *3:30 - 4:30 PM    {{2009:may:knox.mp3 |Lloyd Knox}}: {{2009:may:knox.pdf |"Planck Science"}}
  *4:30 - 5 PM       discussions/break
  *Meeting concludes