Name: Plenary - All Sessions
Start: 2008-08-25T08:30:00-05:00
End: 2008-08-29T12:30:00-05:00
Location: No location set

Plenary - All Sessions

from Monday, August 25, 2008 (8:30 AM) to Friday, August 29, 2008 (12:30 PM)

Monday, August 25, 2008
8:30 AM
8:30 AM - 2:00 PM
Room: Lecture Hall
Contributions

8:30 AM Welcome - Michael Ramsey-Musolf (UW - Madison)

8:45 AM Dark Matter, Dark Energy, and Inflation: The Cosmological Triple Crown - Rocky Kolb (Univ. of Chicago)

9:25 AM Direct and Indirect Dark Matter Searches - Dan Hooper (Fermilab)

10:05 AM Direct Searches for WIMP Dark Matter - Uwe Oberlack (Rice University)

11:15 AM Searching for High Energy Neutrinos with IceCube - Lisa Gerhardt (LBNL)

11:55 AM The Origin of the Universe and the Arrow of Time - Sean Carroll (Caltech)
7:00 PM
7:00 PM - 9:40 PM
Room: Lecture Hall
Contributions

7:00 PM First Stars & Dark Matter - Katie Freese (University of Michigan)

7:40 PM Can One Determine Reheating Temperature at the LHC with Axino or Gravitino Dark Matter? - Leszek Roszkowski (University of Sheffield)

8:20 PM Dark Matter and Collider Studies - Shufang Su (University of Arizona)

9:00 PM Precision Cosmology at the LHC - Bhaskar Dutta (Texas A&M)
Tuesday, August 26, 2008
8:30 AM
8:30 AM - 2:00 PM
Room: Lecture Hall
Contributions

8:30 AM Holographic systematics of D-brane inflation - Shamit Kachru (Stanford University)

9:10 AM Kahler Moduli Inflatons - Fernando quevedo (University of Cambridge)

9:50 AM Axion Monodromy Inflation and Tensor Modes in the CMB - Eva Silverstein (Stanford University)

11:00 AM Is there eternal inflation in the cosmic landscape? - Henry Tye (Cornell University)

11:40 AM Dark Energy's Dual Personality - Rachel Bean (Cornell University)
7:15 PM
7:15 PM - 9:55 PM
Room: Lecture Hall
Contributions

7:15 PM Beyond the CMSSM - Keith Olive (University of Minnesota)

7:55 PM The Highest Energy Particles - Angela Olinto (University of Chicago)

8:35 PM Neutrino Astrophysics and Cosmology - John Beacom (Ohio State Univ.)

9:15 PM Supernovae as sources of nuclei and probes of neutrino physics - Yong-Zhong Qian (University of Minnesota)
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
8:55 AM
8:55 AM - 1:30 PM
Room: Lecture Hall
Contributions

9:00 AM Supersymmetric electroweak baryogenesis and its experimental probes - Vincenzo Cirigliano (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

9:40 AM Electroweak Baryogenesis and Colliders - Marcela Carena (Fermilab)

10:20 AM Electro-weak Baryogenesis: a Multi-Faceted Approach - Stefano Profumo (University of California, Santa Cruz)

11:30 AM Leptogenesis - Mu-Chun Chen (University of California at Irvine)

12:10 PM Cosmic antimatter: Models and observational manifestations - Alexander Dolgov (University of Ferrara, INFN, and ITEP)
Thursday, August 28, 2008
8:30 AM
8:30 AM - 2:00 PM
Room: Lecture Hall
Contributions

8:30 AM Update on Brane Inflation from String Theory - Jim Cline (McGill University)

9:10 AM Perspectives on Dark Energy: A review of constraints and clues to dark energy physics - Robert Caldwell (Dartmouth College)

9:50 AM Reconciling supersymmetry and leptogenesis - Hitoshi Murayama (IPMU)

11:00 AM Cosmic Acceleration from Modified Gravity: Lessons from the f(R) Worked Example - Wayne Hu (University of Chicago)

11:40 AM Primordial non-Gaussianity and the cosmic microwave background - Ben Wandelt (University of Illinois)
Friday, August 29, 2008
8:30 AM
8:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: Lecture Hall
Contributions

8:30 AM Are we beginning to see dark matter? - Gordy Kane (University of Michigan)

9:10 AM GLAST Status and Plans - Steve Ritz (NASA GSFC)

9:50 AM Cosmic Rays and Neutrinos from MINOS - Bob Armstrong (Indiana University)

11:00 AM The status of DAMA and direct detection of WIMPs - Chris Savage (University of Minnesota)

11:40 AM High Longevity Microlensing Events and Dark Matter Black Holes - Paul Frampton (University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill)

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