Parallel 1 - Inflation

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

Lecture Hall

Marco Peloso (Univ. of Minnesota)

1 Boom and bust inflation: a graceful exit via compact extra dimensions

Speaker: Adam Brown

2 How to Generate a Cosmological Power Asymmetry

Speaker: Adrienne Erickcek (Caltech)

Slides cosmo08_erickcek.pdf.pdf

3 Non-perturbative particle production from SUSY flat directions – a spoiler of delayed thermalisation?

Speaker: Anders Basbøll (University of Aarhus)

Slides Anders_Basbøll_slides.odp

4 Testing inflationary paradigm at the LHC

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

5 Early Stage of Anisotropic Inflation Driven by a Vector Field

Speaker: Burak Himmetoglu (University of Minnesota)

Slides himmetoglu-talk08.pdf

3:40 PM Break

6 Constraining deviations from statistical isotropy in the primordial perturbations

Speaker: Cristian Armendariz-Picon (Syracuse University)

7 Preheating after mulfi-field Inflation

Speaker: Diana Battefeld (Helsinki Institute of Physics)

Slides cosmo_08.pdf

8 Preheating in Derivatively-Coupled Inflation Models

Speaker: Eric West (Syracuse University)

9 Radiation Driven Inflation

Speaker: Ilya Gurwich (Ben-Gurion University)

Paper JCAP06(2008)001.pdf

Slides Gurwich_RDI_pdf.pdf Gurwich_RDI_pptx.pptx

10 Tachyon Mediated non-Gaussianity

Speaker: Louis Leblond (Texas A&M University)

Slides leblond.pdf

11 Strings, Texture and the CMB

Speaker: Bjorn Garbrecht (UW - Madison)

Slides Garbrechtcosmo08.pdf

6:00 PM Reception & Poster Session