Plenary - All Sessions
Aug 25, 2008, 8:30 AM
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Aug 29, 2008, 12:30 PM
America/Chicago
Lecture Hall
Lecture Hall
Monday, August 25
Mon, Aug 25
Tue, Aug 26
Wed, Aug 27
Thu, Aug 28
Fri, Aug 29
8:30 AM
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2:00 PM
Particle Physics & Cosmology
8:30 AM
Welcome
15m
Lecture Hall
Lecture Hall
Speaker
:
Michael Ramsey-Musolf
(UW - Madison)
8:45 AM
Dark Matter, Dark Energy, and Inflation: The Cosmological Triple Crown
35m
Lecture Hall
Lecture Hall
Speaker
:
Rocky Kolb
(Univ. of Chicago)
Slides
9:25 AM
Direct and Indirect Dark Matter Searches
35m
Lecture Hall
Lecture Hall
Speaker
:
Dr
Dan Hooper
(Fermilab)
10:05 AM
Direct Searches for WIMP Dark Matter
35m
Lecture Hall
Lecture Hall
Speaker
:
Uwe Oberlack
(Rice University)
Slides
10:45 AM
Break
30m
Outside Lecture Hall
Outside Lecture Hall
11:15 AM
Searching for High Energy Neutrinos with IceCube
35m
Lecture Hall
Lecture Hall
Speaker
:
Lisa Gerhardt
(LBNL)
Slides
11:55 AM
The Origin of the Universe and the Arrow of Time
35m
Lecture Hall
Lecture Hall
Speaker
:
Sean Carroll
(Caltech)
Slides
12:45 PM
Lunch Break
1h 15m
Community Terrace
Community Terrace
7:00 PM
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9:40 PM
Dark Matter
7:00 PM
First Stars & Dark Matter
35m
Speaker
:
Katie Freese
(University of Michigan)
7:40 PM
Can One Determine Reheating Temperature at the LHC with Axino or Gravitino Dark Matter?
35m
Speaker
:
Leszek Roszkowski
(University of Sheffield)
Slides
8:20 PM
Dark Matter and Collider Studies
35m
Speaker
:
Prof.
Shufang Su
(University of Arizona)
Slides
9:00 PM
Precision Cosmology at the LHC
35m
Speaker
:
Bhaskar Dutta
(Texas A&M)
Slides
Tuesday, August 26
Mon, Aug 25
Tue, Aug 26
Wed, Aug 27
Thu, Aug 28
Fri, Aug 29
8:30 AM
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2:00 PM
Strings & Cosmology & More
8:30 AM
Holographic systematics of D-brane inflation
35m
Lecture Hall
Lecture Hall
Speaker
:
Shamit Kachru
(Stanford University)
Slides
9:10 AM
Kahler Moduli Inflatons
35m
Lecture Hall
Lecture Hall
Speaker
:
Fernando quevedo
(University of Cambridge)
9:50 AM
Axion Monodromy Inflation and Tensor Modes in the CMB
35m
Lecture Hall
Lecture Hall
Speaker
:
Eva Silverstein
(Stanford University)
Slides
10:30 AM
Break
30m
Outside Lecture Hall
Outside Lecture Hall
11:00 AM
Is there eternal inflation in the cosmic landscape?
35m
Lecture Hall
Lecture Hall
Speaker
:
Henry Tye
(Cornell University)
Slides
11:40 AM
Dark Energy's Dual Personality
35m
Lecture Hall
Lecture Hall
Speaker
:
Rachel Bean
(Cornell University)
Slides
12:30 PM
Lunch Break
1h 30m
Community Terrace
Community Terrace
7:15 PM
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9:55 PM
Astrophysical Connections
7:15 PM
Beyond the CMSSM
35m
Speaker
:
Keith Olive
(University of Minnesota)
7:55 PM
The Highest Energy Particles
35m
Speaker
:
Angela Olinto
(University of Chicago)
8:35 PM
Neutrino Astrophysics and Cosmology
35m
Speaker
:
Prof.
John Beacom
(Ohio State Univ.)
Slides
9:15 PM
Supernovae as sources of nuclei and probes of neutrino physics
35m
Speaker
:
Yong-Zhong Qian
(University of Minnesota)
Wednesday, August 27
Mon, Aug 25
Tue, Aug 26
Wed, Aug 27
Thu, Aug 28
Fri, Aug 29
8:55 AM
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1:30 PM
Baryogenesis & Leptogenesis
9:00 AM
Supersymmetric electroweak baryogenesis and its experimental probes
35m
Lecture Hall
Lecture Hall
Speaker
:
Vincenzo Cirigliano
(Los Alamos National Laboratory)
9:40 AM
Electroweak Baryogenesis and Colliders
35m
Lecture Hall
Lecture Hall
Speaker
:
Marcela Carena
(Fermilab)
10:20 AM
Electro-weak Baryogenesis: a Multi-Faceted Approach
35m
Lecture Hall
Lecture Hall
Speaker
:
Stefano Profumo
(University of California, Santa Cruz)
11:00 AM
Break
30m
Outside Lecture Hall
Outside Lecture Hall
11:30 AM
Leptogenesis
35m
Lecture Hall
Lecture Hall
Speaker
:
Prof.
Mu-Chun Chen
(University of California at Irvine)
Slides
12:10 PM
Cosmic antimatter: Models and observational manifestations
35m
Lecture Hall
Lecture Hall
Speaker
:
Alexander Dolgov
(University of Ferrara, INFN, and ITEP)
Paper
1:00 PM
Group Photo
20m
Rooftop (rain location - Lecture Hall)
Rooftop (rain location - Lecture Hall)
1:20 PM
END FOR DAY
10m
Lecture Hall
Lecture Hall
Thursday, August 28
Mon, Aug 25
Tue, Aug 26
Wed, Aug 27
Thu, Aug 28
Fri, Aug 29
8:30 AM
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2:00 PM
Inflation & Cosmological Perspectives
8:30 AM
Update on Brane Inflation from String Theory
35m
Lecture Hall
Lecture Hall
Speaker
:
Jim Cline
(McGill University)
Slides
9:10 AM
Perspectives on Dark Energy: A review of constraints and clues to dark energy physics
35m
Lecture Hall
Lecture Hall
Speaker
:
Robert Caldwell
(Dartmouth College)
Slides
9:50 AM
Reconciling supersymmetry and leptogenesis
35m
Lecture Hall
Lecture Hall
Speaker
:
Hitoshi Murayama
(IPMU)
Slides
10:30 AM
Break
30m
Outside Lecture Hall
Outside Lecture Hall
11:00 AM
Cosmic Acceleration from Modified Gravity: Lessons from the f(R) Worked Example
35m
Lecture Hall
Lecture Hall
Speaker
:
Wayne Hu
(University of Chicago)
11:40 AM
Primordial non-Gaussianity and the cosmic microwave background
35m
Lecture Hall
Lecture Hall
Speaker
:
Ben Wandelt
(University of Illinois)
Slides
COSMO08.odp
COSMO08.pdf
COSMO08.ppt
12:30 PM
Lunch Break
1h 30m
Community Terrace
Community Terrace
Friday, August 29
Mon, Aug 25
Tue, Aug 26
Wed, Aug 27
Thu, Aug 28
Fri, Aug 29
8:30 AM
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12:30 PM
Horizons
8:30 AM
Are we beginning to see dark matter?
35m
Lecture Hall
Lecture Hall
Speaker
:
Gordy Kane
(University of Michigan)
9:10 AM
GLAST Status and Plans
35m
Lecture Hall
Lecture Hall
Speaker
:
Steve Ritz
(NASA GSFC)
9:50 AM
Cosmic Rays and Neutrinos from MINOS
35m
Lecture Hall
Lecture Hall
Speaker
:
Bob Armstrong
(Indiana University)
Slides
10:30 AM
Break
30m
Outside Lecture Hall
Outside Lecture Hall
11:00 AM
The status of DAMA and direct detection of WIMPs
35m
Lecture Hall
Lecture Hall
Speaker
:
Chris Savage
(University of Minnesota)
Slides
11:40 AM
High Longevity Microlensing Events and Dark Matter Black Holes
35m
Lecture Hall
Lecture Hall
Speaker
:
Paul Frampton
(University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill)
12:15 PM
END OF CONFERENCE
15m
Lecture Hall
Lecture Hall