Parallel 8 - Inflation
Tuesday Aug 26, 2008, 2:00 PM
→
9:40 PM
America/Chicago
Richard Woodard
(
University of Florida
)
1
Curvature perturbation spectrum from false vacuum inflation
Speaker
:
Dr
Jinn-Ouk Gong
(
University of Wisconsin - Madison
)
Paper
Slides
2
Anisotropic Inflationary Scenario
Speaker
:
Sugumi Kanno
(
IPMU
)
3
N-flationary Reheating
Speaker
:
Jonathan Braden
(
University of Toronto / CITA
)
Slides
4
Dissipative effects on MSSM inflation
Speaker
:
Kohei Kamada
(
University of Tokyo, Research Center for the Early Universe
)
Slides
5
Inflation Models After WMAP year 5
Speaker
:
Laila Alabidi
(
Queen Mary, University of London
)
Slides
3:40 PM
Break
Outside Lecture Hall
Outside Lecture Hall
6
Signatures of an anisotropic stage at the onset of inflation
Speaker
:
Marco Peloso
(
University of Minnesota
)
7
Non-gaussianity, the curvaton, and possible consequences for the dark matter
Speaker
:
Maria Beltran
(
University of Chicago
)
Slides
8
From the Pioneer-flyby anomalies to an alternative cosmology
Speaker
:
Mike McCulloch
(
University of Exeter
)
Slides
9
Observational constraints on the general inflationary action
Speaker
:
Nishant Agarwal
(
Cornell University
)
Slides
10
MSSM inflation
Speaker
:
Sami Nurmi
(
University of Helsinki
)
Slides
7:00 PM
Evening Plenary Session - See Plenary Schedule
Lecture Hall
Lecture Hall