Parallel 8 - Inflation

Tuesday Aug 26, 2008, 2:00 PM → 9:40 PM America/Chicago

Richard Woodard (University of Florida)

2:00 PM → 2:18 PM Curvature perturbation spectrum from false vacuum inflation

Speaker: Dr Jinn-Ouk Gong (University of Wisconsin - Madison)

Paper http://arxiv.org/abs/0804.4488

Slides 26Aug_2008_Cosmo08_jgong.pdf.pdf

2:20 PM → 2:38 PM Anisotropic Inflationary Scenario

Speaker: Sugumi Kanno (IPMU)

2:40 PM → 2:58 PM N-flationary Reheating

Speaker: Jonathan Braden (University of Toronto / CITA)

Slides COSMO__Braden_final.ppt

3:00 PM → 3:18 PM Dissipative effects on MSSM inflation

Speaker: Kohei Kamada (University of Tokyo, Research Center for the Early Universe)

Slides KK_COSMO08.pdf KK_COSMO08.ppt

3:20 PM → 3:38 PM Inflation Models After WMAP year 5

Speaker: Laila Alabidi (Queen Mary, University of London)

Slides alabidi_cosmo08.ppt

3:40 PM → 4:00 PM Break

4:00 PM → 4:18 PM Signatures of an anisotropic stage at the onset of inflation

Speaker: Marco Peloso (University of Minnesota)

4:20 PM → 4:38 PM Non-gaussianity, the curvaton, and possible consequences for the dark matter

Speaker: Maria Beltran (University of Chicago)

Slides cosmo08_Maria_Beltran.ppt

4:40 PM → 4:58 PM From the Pioneer-flyby anomalies to an alternative cosmology

Speaker: Mike McCulloch (University of Exeter)

Slides MEM080826d.ppt

5:00 PM → 5:18 PM Observational constraints on the general inflationary action

Speaker: Nishant Agarwal (Cornell University)

Slides Nishant_Cosmo08.ppt

5:20 PM → 5:38 PM MSSM inflation

Speaker: Sami Nurmi (University of Helsinki)

Slides mssm.pdf.pdf

7:00 PM → 9:40 PM Evening Plenary Session - See Plenary Schedule