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Program and speakers:

Monday,_June_26
Tuesday, June 27
Wednesday, June 28
Thursday, June 29
Friday, June 30

 

Monday, June 26     Chairperson: P.Peter


08:30 - 10:15

Registration

10:15 - 10:30

Welcome address by J.Martin

10:30 - 11:15

A. Guth (M.I.T): History of inflationary theory

11:15 - 12:00

A. Linde(Stanford University): Theoretical basis of inflation

12:00 - 12:20

L. Ford (Tufts University): Quantum stress tensor fluctuations in inflation

12:20 - 12:40

F. Finelli (INAF/IASF Bologna): Quantum generation of field fluctuations during inflation

12:40 - 13:00

M. Luzzi (Department of Physics, University of Bologna): WKB-type approximations for cosmological perturbations

Lunch

Chairperson: M.Sakellariadou

14:15 - 15:00

V. Mukhanov (LMU, Muenchen): Inflationary cosmological perturbations

15:00 - 15:45

L. Kofman (CITA Toronto): Reheating in post-inflation universe

15:45 - 16:15

Break

16:15 - 16:35

J. Garcia-Bellido (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid): Signatures from preheatingafter inflation: electroweak baryogenesis and primordial magnetic fields

16:35 - 16:55

J.F. Dufaux (CITA, Toronto): Preheating with trilinear interactions and tachyonic resonance

16:55 - 17:15

J. Serreau (APC, Univ. Paris 7): Nonequilibrium quantum field theory description of (p)reheating dynamics

17:15 - 17:35

M. Johnson (University of California, Santa Cruz): Two tunnels to inflation

17:35 - 17:55

B. Losic (University of Alberta, Vancouver): Quantum backreactions in slow-roll inflation

17:55 - 18:15

K. Kadota

(Fermilab Batavia, USA): Inflation phenomenology by scalar fields

19:00

Welcome cocktail at the observatory

Tuesday, 27

Chairperson: P.Brax

09:30 - 10:15

D. Lyth (Lancaster University): Inflation models in high energy particle physics

10:15 - 11:00

R. Kallosh (Stanford University): Inflation in string theory

11:00 - 11:20

Break

11:20 - 11:40

K. Dimopoulos (Lancaster University):
String inspired trapped quintessential inflation

11:40 - 12:00

C. Van de Bruck (Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Sheffield): Hybrid inflation and moduli stabilization in supergravity

12:00 - 12:20

M. Bastero-Gil (Universidad de Granada): Supersymmetric hybrid inflation with minimal and non-minimal Kahler potential

12:20 - 12:40

A. Mazumdar

(Nordita Copenhagen): The inflaton

12:40 - 13:00

S. Davis (Leinden University): Combining D-term Inflation and Moduli Stabilisation

Lunch

Chairperson: F.Finelli

14:15 - 15:00

A. Starobinsky (Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics): Stochastic inflation and perturbations

15:00 - 15:45

A. Vilenkin (Tufts University): Eternal inflation, quantum cosmology, and the landscape

15:45 - 16:15

Break

16:15 - 16:35

P. Greene (University of Texas at San Antonio): Inflation and the miniverse

16:35 - 16:55

M. Musso (University of Texas at Austin): New results in stochastic inflation

16:55 - 17:15

S. Winitzki (Ludwig-Maximilians-University): Self-reproduction in k-inflation

17:15 - 17:35

S. Dutta (Case Western Reserve University): Islands in the Lambda-sea

17:35 - 17:55

I.Shapiro (Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora -UFJF- MG, Brazil): Possible and impossible forms of quantum corrections in curved space-time

Wednesday, 28

Chairperson: J.Lesgourgues

09:30 - 10:15

H. Peiris (University of Chicago): Inflation after WMAP

10:15 - 11:00

U. Seljak (ICTP): Inflation, large scale structure and Ly-α

11:00 - 11:20

Break

11:20 - 12:05

S. Prunet (IAP): The Planck mission

12:05 - 12:25

C. Ringeval (Imperial College London): Inflation after WMAP3: Confronting the slow-roll and exact power spectra to CMB data

12:25 - 12:45

W. Kinney (Institute Univ. at Buffalo): Inflation confronts observation

12:45 - 13:05

C. Contaldi(Imperial College) : CMB polarization and the search for gravity waves

Lunch

Chairperson: A.Riazuelo

14:15 - 14:35

A. Liddle (University of Sussex): Cosmological model selection and inflation

14:35 - 14:55

J. Hamann (DESY Hamburg): New constraints on the primordial power spectrum

14:55 - 15:15

J. Lesgourgues (LAPTH, Annecy): Constraints on isocurvature modes from CMB and LSS

15:15 - 15:35

L. Sorbo (University of Massachusetts): N-flationary magnetic fields

15:35 - 15:55

A. Shafieloo (IUCAA-Inter University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics-Pune): Primordial power spectrum from WMAP

15:55 - 16:15

D. Sudarsky (Inst. For Nuclear science-UNAM, Mexico): New physics in the quantum origin of the seeds of cosmic structure.

17:00 - 17:30

Médaille de l'Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris awarded to Prof. A. Linde

17:30 - 18:30

A. Linde: The origin and the fate of the universe

Thursday, 29

Chairperson: D.Langlois

09:30 - 10:15

A. Riotto (INFN, Padova and CERN): The quest for non-gaussian primordial perturbations

10:15 - 11:00

D. Wands (University of Portsmouth): Multi-field inflation and the curvaton

11:00 - 11:20

Break

11:20 - 11:40

J. Cline (McGill University): Nongaussianity in hybrid and brane-antibrane inflation

11:40 - 12:00

G. Rigopoulos (Utrecht University): Non-linear evolution of inhomogeneities in multi-field inflation

12:00 - 12:20

S. Colombi (IAP): Morse theory and detection of non gaussianity on CMB maps

12:20 - 13:40

F. Vernizzi (Helsinki Institute of Physics): Nonlinear cosmological perturbations and non-gaussianities

12:40 - 13:00

B. Van Tent (DAMTP, University of Cambridge): Large non-gaussianity in multiple-field inflation

Lunch

Chairperson: M.Lemoine

14:15 - 15:00

M. Sakellariadou (KCL London): Production of topological defects at the end of inflation

15:00 - 15:45

R. Brandenberger (Mc Gill University, Montréal, Canada): Open questions on the inflation scenario

15:45

Break

16:15 - 16:35

J. Rocher (Univ. of Texas San Antonio): Confronting D-term inflation in supergravities with WMAP 3

16:35 - 16:55

J. Mc Donald (University of Lancaster): RH sneutrino-modified D-term inflation: a solution of the cosmic string and spectral index problems

16:55 - 17:15

J. Fabris (DF-UFES Vitória): Phantom inflation

17:15 - 17:35

S. Mizuno (University of Tokyo): Slow-roll corrections to inflaton fluctuations on a brane

17:35 - 17:55

B.C. Paul (North Bengal University): Chaotic inflationary universe on brane

Conference diner

Friday, 30

Chairperson: F.R. Bouchet

09:30 - 10:15

A. Cooray (University of California, Irvine): Observational perspective (CMBPOL/EPIC, BBO)

10:15 - 11:15

Moderator : F.R. Bouchet (IAP) General discussion on observational aspects: Is inflation falsifiable?

11:15 - 11:40

Break

11:40 - 12:00

A. Nayeri (Harvard University): Inflation free, stringy generation of scale-invariant cosmological fluctuations in D = 3 + 1 dimensions

12:00 - 12:20

N. Pinto-Neto (Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Físicas, Rio de Janeiro): Cosmological perturbations in bouncing cosmologies

12:20 - 12:40

D. Mulryne (Astronomy Unit, Queen Mary, University of London): Loop quantum cosmology and inflation

12:40 - 13:00

I. D. Soares (Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Físicas, Rio de Janeiro): Nonlinear resonance in bouncing universes and initial conditions to inflation

Lunch

Chairperson: R. Brandenberger

14:15 - 15:00

N. Turok (DAMTP- University of Cambridge): Alternative models

15:00 - 15:20

P.V. Moniz (Universidade da Beira Interior -UBI- Portugal): From supersymmetric (quantum) cosmology towards a classical space time

15:20 - 15:45

Break

15:45 - 16:45

General discussion on theoretical aspects