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Workshops

Mining the Cosmic Frontier in the Planck Era

Fundamental Questions in Cosmology

Date:	May 20-24, 2013
Location:	University of California Davis
Building:	UC Davis Conference Center

Abstract:

Planck will bring together observers and theorists to discuss present and future signals and constraints.

Program

Monday May 20

8:00am Registration Desk Opens
8:30 Welcome from Dean Ko
8:35 Lawrence Mission History & Products
8:55 Gorski Overview of Planck Data and Results
9:35 Maino LFI maps
9:50 Crill CMB measurements with the Planck HFI
10:10 Coffee Break
10:35 Colombo Component Separation
11:00 Graça Rocha Power Spectra and the Likelihood
11:30 Millea LCDM & Extensions
12:00 Lunch provided on site
1:30 Hanson CMB Lensing
2:00 Riess The Hubble Constant from Supernovae, Cepheids and Parallax
2:40 Perlmutter SNe
3:20 Padmanabhan BAO: Current status and future directions
4:00 Coffee Break
4:30 Albrecht, Hinshaw, Lawrence, Reiss, Spergel Panel Discussion

Tuesday, May 21

8:30 Meinhold Internal Consistency of Planck Data
9:00 Lyman Page WMAP
9:30 SPT Holzapfel TBA
10:00 Staggs ACT
10:30 Coffee break
11:00 Bartlett Galaxy ClusterScience From Planck: A World of Riches
11:30 Benson The SPT-SZ Survey: Cosmological Constraints from SZ
12:00 Rykoff TBA
12:45 Lunch provided on site
2:15 Lagache CIB
2:45 Dore Lensing cross correlations
3:15 Holder Lensing cross correlations Holder
3:45 Coffee Break
4:15 Dalal Dark Matter Substructure
4:45 Wandelt Inflation and Non-Gaussianity Results from Planck

Wednesday

9:00 Constraints from Planck on Neutrinos Hou TBA
9:20 Keith Olive BBN and the Status of D, He4, and Li7 Observations
10:10 Kaplinghat Constraints on dark matter from the non-linear regime
10:50 Coffee Break
11:20 - 12:00 Summary Summary of the 'Mining' conference
12:00 - 1:30 Lunch provided on site
1:30 - 2:15 Andy Albrecht Challenges for theoretical cosmology
2:15 - 3:00 Linde Inflation after Planck2013
3:00 - 3:30 Break
3:30 - 4:15 Mukhanov Quantum cosmological perturbations: predictions and observations
4:15 - 5:00 Kleban Prospects for observing the multiverse
7:30 Carroll Public Lecture: The Origin of the Universe and the Arrow of Time

Thursday, May 23rd

9:15-10:00 Steinhardt Alternative considerations
10:00-10:45 Turok Cosmological singularity resolution via AdS/CFT
10:45-11:15 Break
11:15 -12:00 Ruth Gregory Black holes and dark energy
12:00 - 2:00 Lunch Break/Buffet
2:00-2:45 Don Page Extreme cosmic censorship for cosmology and black holes
2:45-3:30 Alex Vilenkin The global structure of the multiverse and the measure problem
3:30-4:00 Break
4:00-4:45 Eva Silverstein Towards tractable dS solutions/data mining in a flattened landscape
4:45-5:30 D'Amico Unwinding inflation

Friday, May 24th

9:15-10:00 Brown Mining black holes
10:00-10:45 Freivogel Reconstructing bulk from boundary: clues and challenges
10:45-11:15 Break
11:15 -12:00 Justin Khoury Symmetries and Ward identities of adiabatic modes
12:00 - 2:00 Lunch Break/Buffet
2:00-2:45 Fractal-flows in cosmology and observational signatures of the multiverse Susskind TBA
2:45-3:30 Tom Banks What does data really tell us about the underlying theory of inflation?
3:30-4:00 Break
4:00-4:45 John Terning Planck data and ultralight axions
4:45-5:30 Dick Bond Inflation physics and Planck 2013's small scale concordance and large scale anomalies

Participants

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