Monday, October 18th |
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8:30-9:30am |
BREAKFAST PROVIDED (337 West Hall) |
Session Chair: Kenji Kadota |
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9:30-9:40am |
Welcoming by Gordon Kane |
9:40-10:20am |
The cosmological moduli problem revisited.
Scott Watson (Syracuse University) |
10:20-11:00am |
Non-thermal right-handed sneutrino as cold dark matter.
Takeo Moroi (University of Tokyo) |
11:00-11:30am |
COFFEE PROVIDED (337 West Hall) |
11:30-12:10pm |
Non-thermal dark matter and its observational implication
Kazunori Nakayama (High-Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK)) |
12:15-2:10pm |
LUNCH BREAK |
Session Chair: Konstantin Bobkov |
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2:15-2:55pm |
The Cosmological Moduli Solution(s)
Bobby Acharya (Abdus Salam International Center for Theoretical Physics) |
3:00-3:40pm |
Bounds on moduli masses in Calabi-Yau string models.
Claudio Scrucca (EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland) |
3:40-4:30pm |
COFFEE PROVIDED (337 West Hall) |
4:30-5:10pm |
Holographic cosmology and inflation.
Tom Banks (Rutgers University & University of California) |
5:15-5:55pm |
Towards a dual to inflation.
Justin Khoury (University of Pennsylvania) |
6:00-7:30pm |
RECEPTION (337 West Hall) |
Tuesday, October 19th
Session Chair: Tim Cohen |
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9:15-9:55am |
Weak-scale freeze-in of dark matter.
Lawrence Hall (University of California, Berkeley) |
10:00-10:45am |
COFFEE PROVIDED (337 West Hall) |
10:45-11:25am |
Hidden baryons as dark matter.
David Morrissey (TRIUMF) |
11:30-12:10pm |
Massive gravitino decays and the cosmological lithium problem.
Keith Olive (University of Minnesota) |
12:15-2:10pm |
LUNCH BREAK |
Session Chair: Ian Woo Kim |
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2:15-2:55pm |
Cosmological implications of electroweak scale phase transitions.
Daniel Chung (University of Wisconsin) |
3:00-3:40pm |
Alternatives to the thermal WIMP miracle - a top-down perspective.
Piyush Kumar (Columbia University) |
3:40-4:30pm |
COFFEE PROVIDED (337 West Hall)
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4:30-5:10pm |
Axion Cold Dark Matter in Standard and Non-Standard Cosmologies
Paolo Gondolo (University of Utah) |
Wednesday, October 20th |
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Session Chair: Jing Shao |
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9:15-9:55am |
Modulus Decay at the MeV Scale: From Problem to Progress
Kuver Sinha (Texas A&M University) |
10:00-10:45am |
COFFEE PROVIDED (337 West Hall) |
10:45-11:25am |
Non-thermal gravitino dark matter in gauge mediation etc.
Ryuichiro Kitano (Tohoku University) |
11:30-12:10pm |
Probing reheating temperature at the LHC with long-lived staus.
Koichi Hamaguchi (Tokyo University) |
12:15-2:10pm |
LUNCH BREAK |
Session Chair: Eric Kuflik |
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2:15-2:55pm |
Dark Matter of Dark Energy
Alexander Vikman (CERN) |
3:00-3:40pm |
Minimalist approach to Kahler moduli stabilization in Type IIB orientifolds and constraints on the string axiverse.
Konstantin Bobkov (Ohio State University) |
3:40-4:30pm |
COFFEE PROVIDED (337 West Hall) |
4:10-5:10pm
Department Colloquia |
How to do six impossible things before breakfast; numerical calculation of very unlikely events
Len Sander (University of Michigan) |
Thursday, October 21st |
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Session Chair: Minjoon Park |
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9:15-9:55am |
Matrix Inflation
Amjad Ashoorioon (Uppsala University) |
10:00-10:45am |
COFFEE PROVIDED (337 West Hall) |
10:45-11:25am |
Asymmetric dark matter from a GeV hidden sector.
Timothy Cohen (University of Michigan) |
11:30-12:10pm |
The simplest asymmetric dark matter.
Jure Zupan (University of Cincinnati) |
12:15-2:10pm |
LUNCH BREAK |
Session Chair: Moira Gresham |
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2:15-2:55pm |
Modification of the cosmological thermal history due to primordial black holes and gravitational wave background.
Alexander Dolgov (University of Ferrara, INFN & ITEP) |
3:00-3:40pm |
Guidelines of the flavour structure of G2-MSSM models.
Liliana Velasco-Sevilla (ICTP-Italy, Cinvestav-Mexico) |
3:40-4:30pm |
COFFEE PROVIDED (337 West Hall) |