Parallel 1 - Inflation
Monday, August 25, 2008 -
2:00 PM
Monday, August 25, 2008
2:00 PM
Boom and bust inflation: a graceful exit via compact extra dimensions
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Adam Brown
Boom and bust inflation: a graceful exit via compact extra dimensions
Adam Brown
2:00 PM - 2:18 PM
Room: Lecture Hall
2:20 PM
How to Generate a Cosmological Power Asymmetry
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Adrienne Erickcek
(
Caltech
)
How to Generate a Cosmological Power Asymmetry
Adrienne Erickcek
(
Caltech
)
2:20 PM - 2:38 PM
Room: Lecture Hall
2:40 PM
Non-perturbative particle production from SUSY flat directions – a spoiler of delayed thermalisation?
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Anders Basbøll
(
University of Aarhus
)
Non-perturbative particle production from SUSY flat directions – a spoiler of delayed thermalisation?
Anders Basbøll
(
University of Aarhus
)
2:40 PM - 2:58 PM
Room: Lecture Hall
3:00 PM
Testing inflationary paradigm at the LHC
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Anupam Mazumdar
(
Lancaster University / University of Copenhagen
)
Testing inflationary paradigm at the LHC
Anupam Mazumdar
(
Lancaster University / University of Copenhagen
)
3:00 PM - 3:18 PM
Room: Lecture Hall
3:20 PM
Early Stage of Anisotropic Inflation Driven by a Vector Field
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Burak Himmetoglu
(
University of Minnesota
)
Early Stage of Anisotropic Inflation Driven by a Vector Field
Burak Himmetoglu
(
University of Minnesota
)
3:20 PM - 3:38 PM
Room: Lecture Hall
3:40 PM
Break
Break
3:40 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: Outside Lecture Hall
4:00 PM
Constraining deviations from statistical isotropy in the primordial perturbations
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Cristian Armendariz-Picon
(
Syracuse University
)
Constraining deviations from statistical isotropy in the primordial perturbations
Cristian Armendariz-Picon
(
Syracuse University
)
4:00 PM - 4:18 PM
Room: Lecture Hall
4:20 PM
Preheating after mulfi-field Inflation
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Diana Battefeld
(
Helsinki Institute of Physics
)
Preheating after mulfi-field Inflation
Diana Battefeld
(
Helsinki Institute of Physics
)
4:20 PM - 4:38 PM
Room: Lecture Hall
4:40 PM
Preheating in Derivatively-Coupled Inflation Models
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Eric West
(
Syracuse University
)
Preheating in Derivatively-Coupled Inflation Models
Eric West
(
Syracuse University
)
4:40 PM - 4:58 PM
Room: Lecture Hall
5:00 PM
Radiation Driven Inflation
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Ilya Gurwich
(
Ben-Gurion University
)
Radiation Driven Inflation
Ilya Gurwich
(
Ben-Gurion University
)
5:00 PM - 5:18 PM
Room: Lecture Hall
5:20 PM
Tachyon Mediated non-Gaussianity
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Louis Leblond
(
Texas A&M University
)
Tachyon Mediated non-Gaussianity
Louis Leblond
(
Texas A&M University
)
5:20 PM - 5:38 PM
Room: Lecture Hall
5:40 PM
Strings, Texture and the CMB
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Bjorn Garbrecht
(
UW - Madison
)
Strings, Texture and the CMB
Bjorn Garbrecht
(
UW - Madison
)
5:40 PM - 5:58 PM
Room: Lecture Hall
6:00 PM
Reception & Poster Session
Reception & Poster Session
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Room: Grand Terrace