Parallel 11 - Inflation
Thursday, August 28, 2008 -
2:00 PM
Monday, August 25, 2008
Tuesday, August 26, 2008
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
Thursday, August 28, 2008
2:00 PM
Emergent Cyclic Universes and Tolman's Entropy Problem
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Tirthabir Biswas
(
Penn State University
)
Emergent Cyclic Universes and Tolman's Entropy Problem
Tirthabir Biswas
(
Penn State University
)
2:00 PM - 2:18 PM
Room: Lecture Hall
2:20 PM
Non-gaussianity from the bispectrum in general multiple field inflation
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Shuntaro Mizuno
(
University of Tokyo
)
Non-gaussianity from the bispectrum in general multiple field inflation
Shuntaro Mizuno
(
University of Tokyo
)
2:20 PM - 2:38 PM
Room: Lecture Hall
2:40 PM
Nflation: observable predictions from the random matrix mass spectrum.
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Soo A Kim
(
Kyung Hee University
)
Nflation: observable predictions from the random matrix mass spectrum.
Soo A Kim
(
Kyung Hee University
)
2:40 PM - 2:58 PM
Room: Lecture Hall
3:00 PM
Primordial gravitational waves in the anisotropic inflationary universe
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Jiro Soda
(
Kyoto University
)
Primordial gravitational waves in the anisotropic inflationary universe
Jiro Soda
(
Kyoto University
)
3:00 PM - 3:18 PM
Room: Lecture Hall
3:20 PM
Staggered Multi-Field Inflation
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Thorsten Battefeld
(
Princeton University
)
Staggered Multi-Field Inflation
Thorsten Battefeld
(
Princeton University
)
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
Conservation and evolution of the curvature perturbation
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Jinn-Ouk Gong
(
University of Wisconsin - Madison
)
Conservation and evolution of the curvature perturbation
Jinn-Ouk Gong
(
University of Wisconsin - Madison
)
4:00 PM - 4:18 PM
Room: Lecture Hall
4:20 PM
Vector inflation
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Vitaly Vanchurin
(
University of Munich
)
Vector inflation
Vitaly Vanchurin
(
University of Munich
)
4:20 PM - 4:38 PM
Room: Lecture Hall
4:40 PM
Reheating of the universe after inflation with f(phi)R gravity
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Yuki Watanabe
(
Univ. of Texas at Austin
)
Reheating of the universe after inflation with f(phi)R gravity
Yuki Watanabe
(
Univ. of Texas at Austin
)
4:40 PM - 4:58 PM
Room: Lecture Hall
5:00 PM
The role of SUSY flat directions in reheating
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Ahmet Emir Gumrukcuoglu
(
University of Minnesota
)
The role of SUSY flat directions in reheating
Ahmet Emir Gumrukcuoglu
(
University of Minnesota
)
5:00 PM - 5:18 PM
Room: Lecture Hall
5:20 PM
Mach's Principle: Exact Frame-Dragging by Perturbations of Friedmann-Robertson-Walker Universes with K = (+1, -1, 0)
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Christoph Schmidt
(
ETH Zurich
)
Mach's Principle: Exact Frame-Dragging by Perturbations of Friedmann-Robertson-Walker Universes with K = (+1, -1, 0)
Christoph Schmidt
(
ETH Zurich
)
5:20 PM - 5:38 PM
Room: Lecture Hall
5:40 PM
Stochastic gravitational radiation produced after inflation.
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John Giblin
(
Yale University
)
Stochastic gravitational radiation produced after inflation.
John Giblin
(
Yale University
)
5:40 PM - 5:58 PM
Room: Lecture Hall
7:00 PM
Banquet - Lawrence Krauss, Speaker
Banquet - Lawrence Krauss, Speaker
7:00 PM - 9:15 PM
Room: Community Terrace