Parallel 1 - Inflation

Monday Aug 25, 2008, 2:00 PM → 7:00 PM America/Chicago

Lecture Hall

Marco Peloso (Univ. of Minnesota)

2:00 PM → 2:18 PM Boom and bust inflation: a graceful exit via compact extra dimensions

Speaker: Adam Brown

2:20 PM → 2:38 PM How to Generate a Cosmological Power Asymmetry

Speaker: Adrienne Erickcek (Caltech)

Slides cosmo08_erickcek.pdf.pdf

2:40 PM → 2:58 PM Non-perturbative particle production from SUSY flat directions – a spoiler of delayed thermalisation?

Speaker: Anders Basbøll (University of Aarhus)

Slides Anders_Basbøll_slides.odp

3:00 PM → 3:18 PM Testing inflationary paradigm at the LHC

Speaker: Anupam Mazumdar (Lancaster University / University of Copenhagen)

3:20 PM → 3:38 PM Early Stage of Anisotropic Inflation Driven by a Vector Field

Speaker: Burak Himmetoglu (University of Minnesota)

Slides himmetoglu-talk08.pdf

3:40 PM → 4:00 PM Break

4:00 PM → 4:18 PM Constraining deviations from statistical isotropy in the primordial perturbations

Speaker: Cristian Armendariz-Picon (Syracuse University)

4:20 PM → 4:38 PM Preheating after mulfi-field Inflation

Speaker: Diana Battefeld (Helsinki Institute of Physics)

Slides cosmo_08.pdf

4:40 PM → 4:58 PM Preheating in Derivatively-Coupled Inflation Models

Speaker: Eric West (Syracuse University)

5:00 PM → 5:18 PM Radiation Driven Inflation

Speaker: Ilya Gurwich (Ben-Gurion University)

Paper JCAP06(2008)001.pdf

Slides Gurwich_RDI_pdf.pdf Gurwich_RDI_pptx.pptx

5:20 PM → 5:38 PM Tachyon Mediated non-Gaussianity

Speaker: Louis Leblond (Texas A&M University)

Slides leblond.pdf

5:40 PM → 5:58 PM Strings, Texture and the CMB

Speaker: Bjorn Garbrecht (UW - Madison)

Slides Garbrechtcosmo08.pdf

6:00 PM → 7:00 PM Reception & Poster Session