The Particle Cosmology Frontier

We will explore the latest ideas in particle cosmology.

To contact the organizers, please send email to
particlecosmo@particle.physics.ucdavis.edu.

Thursday

• 9:15 Dean Winston Ko: Welcome
• 9:30 - 10:30 AM Raphael Bousso: “Think Global Act Causal: Complementarity in the Multiverse”
• 10:30 -11 AM discussions/break
• 11 - 12 AM 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: "Cosmological Observables When Worlds Collide"
• 3 - 3:30 PM discussions/break
• 3:30 - 4:30 PM Matt Kleban: "A Conformal Field Theory for Eternal Inflation"
• 4:30 - 5 PM discussions/break
• 6 PM: Dinner

Friday

• 9:30 - 10:30 AM 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 Alex Westphal: “Monodromy Inflation”
• 12 - 12:30 PM discussions/break
• 12:30 - 2 PM lunch break

• 2 - 3 PM Marco Peloso: "Breaking Statistical Isotropy"
• 3 - 3:30 PM discussions/break
• 3:30 - 4:30 PM Lloyd Knox: "Planck Science"
• 4:30 - 5 PM discussions/break
• Meeting concludes

slides and mp3s will be stored here

The following people are registered:

Invited participants (confirmed):

• Raphael Bousso (UC Berkeley)

• Sergei Dubovsky (Stanford)

• Ben Freivogel (UC Berkeley)

• Marc Kamionkowski (Caltech)

• Matthew Kleban (NYU)

• Rocky Kolb (FNAL/U Chicago)

• Alberto Nicolis (Columbia; TBC)

• Marco Peloso (U Minnesota)

• Kris Sigurdson (UBC)

• Lorenzo Sorbo (U Mass Amherst)

• Alexander Westphal (Stanford)

Local participants:

• Haiying Cai (UCD)
• Yi Cai (UCD)
• Spencer Chang (UCD)
• Hsin-Chia Cheng (UCD)
• Robin Erbacher (UCD)
• John Conway (UCD)
• Jack Gunion (UCD)
• Zhenyu Han (UCD)
• Nemanja Kaloper (UCD)
• Markus Luty (UCD)
• John McRaven (UCD)
• David Stancato (UCD)
• John Terning (UCD)

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