Bubbles in the Sky

Date:	April 1-2 2011
Location:	University of California Davis
Building:	Physics Dept. Room 432

Abstract:

“Bubbles in the Sky” will bring together cosmologists to discuss present and future signals of, and constraints on, dynamical phenomena in the very early universe, including bubble formation by tunneling between different inflationary vacua, eternal inflation, and related issues.

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

Program

Friday

8:30-9:00 Coffee
9:00-9:15 Welcome
9:15-9:55 Leonard Susskind The search for a precise formulation of eternal inflation mp4
9:55-10:15 Discussion
10:15-10:30 Coffee break
10:30-11:10 Matt Kleban Physics of Cosmic Bubble Collisions mp4
11:10-11:30 Discussion
11:30-12 General Discussion
12:00-1:30 Lunch
1:30-2:10 Albion Lawrence Axion Monodromy mp4
2:10-2:30 Discussion
2:30-2:40 Break
2:40-3:20 Takahiro Tanaka Tensor perturbation constraint on inflation models with non-negligible spatial curvature in landscape scenario mp4
3:20-3:40 Discussion
3:40-4:00 Coffee break
4:00-4:40 Anthony Aguirre A status report on the observability of cosmic bubble collisions mp4
4:40-5:00 Discussion
5:00-5:30 General Discussion
7:00 Dinner Suggested Restaurants

Saturday

8:30-9:00 Coffee
9:00-9:40 Matthew Johnson Observational constraints on eternal inflation: model assumptions and Bayesian analysis mp4
9:40-10 Discussion
10-10:30 Coffee Break
10:30-11:10 Hiranya Peiris First observational constraints on eternal inflation: data analysis mp4
11:10-11:30 Discussion
11:30-12 General Discussion
12-1:30 Lunch
1:30-2:10 Douglas Scott Tilted Physics mp4
2:10-2:30 Discussion
2:30-2:40 Break
2:40-3:20 Tommy Levi TBA
3:20-3:40 Discussion
3:40-4:00 Coffee break
4:00-4:40 Surjeet Rajendran Observing the Dimensionality of Our Parent Vacuum mp4
4:40-5:00 Discussion
5:00-5:30 Wrap-up discussion
6:30-beyond Dinner, evening on the town Suggested Restaurants

Participants

Anthony Aguirre (UCSC)
Andy Albrecht (UC Davis/KICP)
Ethan Anderes (UCD)
Haiying Cai (UCD)
Spencer Chang (UCD)
Hsin-Chia Cheng (UCD)
Max Chertok (UCD)
John Conway (UCD)
Marina Cortes (Berkeley Lab)
Olivier Dore (JPL)
Robin Erbacher (UCD)
John Felde (UCD)
Willy Fischler (UT Austin)
Jack Gunion (UCD)
Matt Johnson (Perimeter)
Nemanja Kaloper (UCD)
Matt Kleban (NYU)
Lloyd Knox (UCD)
Eiichiro Komatsu (UT Austin)
Albion Lawrence (Brandeis)
Tommy Levi (UBC)
Markus Luty (UCD)
John McRaven (UCD)
Anibal Medina (UCD)
Hiranya Peiris (UCL)
Dan Phalen (UCD)
Surjeet Rajendran (Johns Hopkins University)
Vladimir Rosenhaus (UC Berkeley)
Michael Salem (Stanford)
McCullen Sandora (UC Davis)
Prashant Saraswat (Stanford University)
Douglas Scott (UBC)
Leonardo Senatore (Stanford/KIPAC)
Edgar Shaghoulian (Stanford University)
Steve Shenker (Stanford)
David Stancato (UCD)
Lenny Susskind (Stanford)
Bob Svoboda (UCD/LUX)
Norihiro Tanahashi (UCD)
Takahiro Tanaka (Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics)
John Terning (UC Davis)
Mani Tripathi (UCD/LUX)
Tony Tyson (UCD/LSST)