Plenary - All Sessions

Aug 25, 2008, 8:30 AM → Aug 29, 2008, 12:30 PM America/Chicago

Lecture Hall

Mon, August 25

8:30 AM → 2:00 PM Particle Physics & Cosmology

8:30 AM Welcome

Speaker: Michael Ramsey-Musolf (UW - Madison)

8:45 AM Dark Matter, Dark Energy, and Inflation: The Cosmological Triple Crown

Speaker: Rocky Kolb (Univ. of Chicago)

Slides cosmo08_kolb.pdf

9:25 AM Direct and Indirect Dark Matter Searches

Speaker: Dr Dan Hooper (Fermilab)

10:05 AM Direct Searches for WIMP Dark Matter

Speaker: Uwe Oberlack (Rice University)

Slides DM_direct_searches.pdf

10:45 AM Break

11:15 AM Searching for High Energy Neutrinos with IceCube

Speaker: Lisa Gerhardt (LBNL)

Slides GerhardtCosmo08_bg1_v2.ppt

11:55 AM The Origin of the Universe and the Arrow of Time

Speaker: Sean Carroll (Caltech)

Slides carroll-cosmo-08.pdf

12:45 PM Lunch Break

7:00 PM → 9:40 PM Dark Matter

7:00 PM First Stars & Dark Matter

Speaker: Katie Freese (University of Michigan)

7:40 PM Can One Determine Reheating Temperature at the LHC with Axino or Gravitino Dark Matter?

Speaker: Leszek Roszkowski (University of Sheffield)

Slides ewimps-treh-v2.pdf

8:20 PM Dark Matter and Collider Studies

Speaker: Prof. Shufang Su (University of Arizona)

Slides cosmo08_su.pdf

9:00 PM Precision Cosmology at the LHC

Speaker: Bhaskar Dutta (Texas A&M)

Slides cosmo2008dutta.ppt

Tue, August 26

8:30 AM → 2:00 PM Strings & Cosmology & More

8:30 AM Holographic systematics of D-brane inflation

Speaker: Shamit Kachru (Stanford University)

Slides kachru.pdf.pdf

9:10 AM Kahler Moduli Inflatons

Speaker: Fernando quevedo (University of Cambridge)

9:50 AM Axion Monodromy Inflation and Tensor Modes in the CMB

Speaker: Eva Silverstein (Stanford University)

Slides Silverstein.pdf.pdf

10:30 AM Break

11:00 AM Is there eternal inflation in the cosmic landscape?

Speaker: Henry Tye (Cornell University)

Slides TyeCosmo08.pdf.pdf

11:40 AM Dark Energy's Dual Personality

Speaker: Rachel Bean (Cornell University)

Slides rbean_cosmo08.pdf

12:30 PM Lunch Break

7:15 PM → 9:55 PM Astrophysical Connections

7:15 PM Beyond the CMSSM

Speaker: Keith Olive (University of Minnesota)

7:55 PM The Highest Energy Particles

Speaker: Angela Olinto (University of Chicago)

8:35 PM Neutrino Astrophysics and Cosmology

Speaker: Prof. John Beacom (Ohio State Univ.)

Slides Beacom.pdf Beacom.ppt

9:15 PM Supernovae as sources of nuclei and probes of neutrino physics

Speaker: Yong-Zhong Qian (University of Minnesota)

Wed, August 27

8:55 AM → 1:30 PM Baryogenesis & Leptogenesis

9:00 AM Supersymmetric electroweak baryogenesis and its experimental probes

Speaker: Vincenzo Cirigliano (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

9:40 AM Electroweak Baryogenesis and Colliders

Speaker: Marcela Carena (Fermilab)

10:20 AM Electro-weak Baryogenesis: a Multi-Faceted Approach

Speaker: Stefano Profumo (University of California, Santa Cruz)

11:00 AM Break

11:30 AM Leptogenesis

Speaker: Prof. Mu-Chun Chen (University of California at Irvine)

Slides cosmo08MCC.pdf

12:10 PM Cosmic antimatter: Models and observational manifestations

Speaker: Alexander Dolgov (University of Ferrara, INFN, and ITEP)

Paper anti-matter.pdf

1:00 PM Group Photo

1:20 PM END FOR DAY

Thu, August 28

8:30 AM → 2:00 PM Inflation & Cosmological Perspectives

8:30 AM Update on Brane Inflation from String Theory

Speaker: Jim Cline (McGill University)

Slides jcline-cosmo.pdf.pdf

9:10 AM Perspectives on Dark Energy: A review of constraints and clues to dark energy physics

Speaker: Robert Caldwell (Dartmouth College)

Slides CaldwellCosmo2008.pdf

9:50 AM Reconciling supersymmetry and leptogenesis

Speaker: Hitoshi Murayama (IPMU)

Slides Murayama.pdf.pdf

10:30 AM Break

11:00 AM Cosmic Acceleration from Modified Gravity: Lessons from the f(R) Worked Example

Speaker: Wayne Hu (University of Chicago)

11:40 AM Primordial non-Gaussianity and the cosmic microwave background

Speaker: Ben Wandelt (University of Illinois)

Slides

• COSMO08.odp
• COSMO08.pdf
• COSMO08.ppt

12:30 PM Lunch Break

Fri, August 29

8:30 AM → 12:30 PM Horizons

8:30 AM Are we beginning to see dark matter?

Speaker: Gordy Kane (University of Michigan)

9:10 AM GLAST Status and Plans

Speaker: Steve Ritz (NASA GSFC)

9:50 AM Cosmic Rays and Neutrinos from MINOS

Speaker: Bob Armstrong (Indiana University)

Slides MINOS_Cosmo08.pdg.pdf

10:30 AM Break

11:00 AM The status of DAMA and direct detection of WIMPs

Speaker: Chris Savage (University of Minnesota)

Slides csavage_DAMA_couplings.ppt.ppt

11:40 AM High Longevity Microlensing Events and Dark Matter Black Holes

Speaker: Paul Frampton (University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill)

12:15 PM END OF CONFERENCE