Plenary - All Sessions
Aug 25, 2008, 8:30 AM
→
Aug 29, 2008, 12:30 PM
America/Chicago
Lecture Hall
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Monday, August 25
Mon, Aug 25
Tue, Aug 26
Wed, Aug 27
Thu, Aug 28
Fri, Aug 29
Particle Physics & Cosmology
1
Welcome
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Lecture Hall
Speaker
:
Michael Ramsey-Musolf
(
UW - Madison
)
2
Dark Matter, Dark Energy, and Inflation: The Cosmological Triple Crown
Lecture Hall
Lecture Hall
Speaker
:
Rocky Kolb
(
Univ. of Chicago
)
Slides
3
Direct and Indirect Dark Matter Searches
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Lecture Hall
Speaker
:
Dr
Dan Hooper
(
Fermilab
)
4
Direct Searches for WIMP Dark Matter
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Lecture Hall
Speaker
:
Uwe Oberlack
(
Rice University
)
Slides
10:45 AM
Break
Outside Lecture Hall
Outside Lecture Hall
5
Searching for High Energy Neutrinos with IceCube
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Lecture Hall
Speaker
:
Lisa Gerhardt
(
LBNL
)
Slides
6
The Origin of the Universe and the Arrow of Time
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Lecture Hall
Speaker
:
Sean Carroll
(
Caltech
)
Slides
12:45 PM
Lunch Break
Community Terrace
Community Terrace
Dark Matter
7
First Stars & Dark Matter
Speaker
:
Katie Freese
(
University of Michigan
)
8
Can One Determine Reheating Temperature at the LHC with Axino or Gravitino Dark Matter?
Speaker
:
Leszek Roszkowski
(
University of Sheffield
)
Slides
9
Dark Matter and Collider Studies
Speaker
:
Prof.
Shufang Su
(
University of Arizona
)
Slides
10
Precision Cosmology at the LHC
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
Strings & Cosmology & More
11
Holographic systematics of D-brane inflation
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Lecture Hall
Speaker
:
Shamit Kachru
(
Stanford University
)
Slides
12
Kahler Moduli Inflatons
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Lecture Hall
Speaker
:
Fernando quevedo
(
University of Cambridge
)
13
Axion Monodromy Inflation and Tensor Modes in the CMB
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Lecture Hall
Speaker
:
Eva Silverstein
(
Stanford University
)
Slides
10:30 AM
Break
Outside Lecture Hall
Outside Lecture Hall
14
Is there eternal inflation in the cosmic landscape?
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Lecture Hall
Speaker
:
Henry Tye
(
Cornell University
)
Slides
15
Dark Energy's Dual Personality
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Lecture Hall
Speaker
:
Rachel Bean
(
Cornell University
)
Slides
12:30 PM
Lunch Break
Community Terrace
Community Terrace
Astrophysical Connections
16
Beyond the CMSSM
Speaker
:
Keith Olive
(
University of Minnesota
)
17
The Highest Energy Particles
Speaker
:
Angela Olinto
(
University of Chicago
)
18
Neutrino Astrophysics and Cosmology
Speaker
:
Prof.
John Beacom
(
Ohio State Univ.
)
Slides
19
Supernovae as sources of nuclei and probes of neutrino physics
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
Baryogenesis & Leptogenesis
20
Supersymmetric electroweak baryogenesis and its experimental probes
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Lecture Hall
Speaker
:
Vincenzo Cirigliano
(
Los Alamos National Laboratory
)
21
Electroweak Baryogenesis and Colliders
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Lecture Hall
Speaker
:
Marcela Carena
(
Fermilab
)
22
Electro-weak Baryogenesis: a Multi-Faceted Approach
Lecture Hall
Lecture Hall
Speaker
:
Stefano Profumo
(
University of California, Santa Cruz
)
11:00 AM
Break
Outside Lecture Hall
Outside Lecture Hall
23
Leptogenesis
Lecture Hall
Lecture Hall
Speaker
:
Prof.
Mu-Chun Chen
(
University of California at Irvine
)
Slides
24
Cosmic antimatter: Models and observational manifestations
Lecture Hall
Lecture Hall
Speaker
:
Alexander Dolgov
(
University of Ferrara, INFN, and ITEP
)
Paper
1:00 PM
Group Photo
Rooftop (rain location - Lecture Hall)
Rooftop (rain location - Lecture Hall)
1:20 PM
END FOR DAY
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Thursday, August 28
Mon, Aug 25
Tue, Aug 26
Wed, Aug 27
Thu, Aug 28
Fri, Aug 29
Inflation & Cosmological Perspectives
25
Update on Brane Inflation from String Theory
Lecture Hall
Lecture Hall
Speaker
:
Jim Cline
(
McGill University
)
Slides
26
Perspectives on Dark Energy: A review of constraints and clues to dark energy physics
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Lecture Hall
Speaker
:
Robert Caldwell
(
Dartmouth College
)
Slides
27
Reconciling supersymmetry and leptogenesis
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Lecture Hall
Speaker
:
Hitoshi Murayama
(
IPMU
)
Slides
10:30 AM
Break
Outside Lecture Hall
Outside Lecture Hall
28
Cosmic Acceleration from Modified Gravity: Lessons from the f(R) Worked Example
Lecture Hall
Lecture Hall
Speaker
:
Wayne Hu
(
University of Chicago
)
29
Primordial non-Gaussianity and the cosmic microwave background
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Lecture Hall
Speaker
:
Ben Wandelt
(
University of Illinois
)
Slides
COSMO08.odp
COSMO08.pdf
COSMO08.ppt
12:30 PM
Lunch Break
Community Terrace
Community Terrace
Friday, August 29
Mon, Aug 25
Tue, Aug 26
Wed, Aug 27
Thu, Aug 28
Fri, Aug 29
Horizons
30
Are we beginning to see dark matter?
Lecture Hall
Lecture Hall
Speaker
:
Gordy Kane
(
University of Michigan
)
31
GLAST Status and Plans
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Lecture Hall
Speaker
:
Steve Ritz
(
NASA GSFC
)
32
Cosmic Rays and Neutrinos from MINOS
Lecture Hall
Lecture Hall
Speaker
:
Bob Armstrong
(
Indiana University
)
Slides
10:30 AM
Break
Outside Lecture Hall
Outside Lecture Hall
33
The status of DAMA and direct detection of WIMPs
Lecture Hall
Lecture Hall
Speaker
:
Chris Savage
(
University of Minnesota
)
Slides
34
High Longevity Microlensing Events and Dark Matter Black Holes
Lecture Hall
Lecture Hall
Speaker
:
Paul Frampton
(
University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
)
12:15 PM
END OF CONFERENCE
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