Parallel 11 - Inflation

Thursday Aug 28, 2008, 2:00 PM → 9:15 PM America/Chicago

Lecture Hall

Jai-chan Hwang (Kyungpook National Univ.)

1 Emergent Cyclic Universes and Tolman's Entropy Problem

Speaker: Tirthabir Biswas (Penn State University)

Slides cosmo08-tirtho.pptx

2 Non-gaussianity from the bispectrum in general multiple field inflation

Speaker: Shuntaro Mizuno (University of Tokyo)

3 Nflation: observable predictions from the random matrix mass spectrum.

Speaker: Soo A Kim (Kyung Hee University)

Slides SooaKim.pptx

4 Primordial gravitational waves in the anisotropic inflationary universe

Speaker: Jiro Soda (Kyoto University)

Slides cosmo08soda.pdf

5 Staggered Multi-Field Inflation

Speaker: Thorsten Battefeld (Princeton University)

Slides Battefeld_talk-COSMO.pdf

3:40 PM Break

6 Conservation and evolution of the curvature perturbation

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

Slides 28Aug_2008_Cosmo08_jgong.pdf.pdf

7 Vector inflation

Speaker: Vitaly Vanchurin (University of Munich)

Slides cosmo.pdf

8 Reheating of the universe after inflation with f(phi)R gravity

Speaker: Yuki Watanabe (Univ. of Texas at Austin)

Slides watanabe_cosmo08.pdf

9 The role of SUSY flat directions in reheating

Speaker: Ahmet Emir Gumrukcuoglu (University of Minnesota)

Slides cosmo.pdf

10 Mach's Principle: Exact Frame-Dragging by Perturbations of Friedmann-Robertson-Walker Universes with K = (+1, -1, 0)

Speaker: Christoph Schmidt (ETH Zurich)

11 Stochastic gravitational radiation produced after inflation.

Speaker: John Giblin (Yale University)

Slides giblin.pdf.pdf

7:00 PM Banquet - Lawrence Krauss, Speaker