Monday, Feb 03, 2020 |
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Session Chair: Mark Trodden (UPenn)
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| 8:50am |
Lisa Stewart (KITP CAO) |
Welcome[Aud][Cam] |
| 9:00am |
Andrei Frolov (Simon Fraser) |
Intermittent non-Gaussianity Generated by Preheating[Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 9:45am |
Brandon Melcher (Syracuse) |
Co-decaying Dark Matter and Early Universe Signatures[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 10:30am |
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| 11:00am |
Pearl Sandick (U of Utah) |
Dark Stars[Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 11:45am |
Zach Weiner (U of Illinois) |
Constraining Axion Inflation with Gravitational Waves Across 29 Decades in Frequency[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 12:30pm |
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Session Chair: Raphael Flauger (UCSD)
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| 2:00pm |
Gary Shiu (U of Wisconsin) |
Chaos and Complementarity in Cosmological Spacetimes[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 2:45pm |
Mustafa Amin (Rice U) |
Nonperturbative Dynamics During and After Inflation[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 3:30pm |
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| 4:00pm |
Evangelos I. Sfakianakis
(Nikhef, Amsterdam & Leiden)
| Field-space Effects in Preheating[Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 4:45pm |
Alex Kusenko (UCLA) |
Primordial Black Holes[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 5:30pm |
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Tuesday, Feb 04, 2020 |
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Session Chair: Peter Adshead (U of Illinois)
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| 9:00am |
Jonathan Heckman (UPenn) |
String Motivated Extra Sectors and Strong Coupling[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 9:45am |
Tommi Tenkanen (JHU) |
Probing the Early Universe with Isocurvature Perturbations[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 10:30am |
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| 11:00am |
Jorinde Van De Vis (DESY) |
Reheating after Higgs Inflation[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 11:45am |
Jeff Dror (UC Berkeley) |
Macroscopic Remnants of the Early Universe - Production and Detection[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 12:30pm |
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Session Chair: Yanou Cui (UC Riverside)
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| 2:00pm |
Rachel Rosen (Columbia U) |
Scalars, Shift Symmetries and de Sitter[Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 2:45pm |
Stefano Profumo (UCSC) |
The Primordial Black Holes Variations[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 3:30pm |
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| 4:00pm |
David Morrissey (TRIUMF) |
Looking (far) Back in Time with Gravitational Waves from Cosmic Strings[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 4:45pm |
Andrew Long (Rice U) |
Gravitational Production of Dark Matter at the End of Inflation[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 5:30pm |
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| 6:00pm |
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| 8:00pm |
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Wednesday, Feb 05, 2020 |
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Session Chair: Peter Adshead (U of Illinois)
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| 9:00am |
TBA |
TBA |
| 9:45am |
Kathryn Zurek (Caltech) |
Spacetime Fluctuations in Ads/CFT[Aud][Cam] |
| 10:30am |
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| 11:00am |
Jessie Shelton (U of Illinois) |
Hidden Thermal Histories[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 11:45am |
Ema Dimastrogiovanni
(New South Wales U) |
Inflation predicts a stochastic gravitational waves background[Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 12:30pm |
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Session Chair: Scott Watson (Syracuse)
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| 2:00pm |
Jay Hubisz (Syracuse) |
Brane Cosmology From Symmetry Principles[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 2:45pm |
Tom Giblin (Kenyon College) |
The Role of Gravity during Preheating[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 3:30pm |
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| 4:00pm |
Adrienne Erickcek (UNC) |
The Early Universe's Imprint on Dark Matter[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 4:45pm |
Dani Figueroa (IFIC) |
Probing the 'primordial dark ages' with gravitational waves. Implications for reheating.[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 5:30pm |
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| 6:00pm |
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| 8:00pm |
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Thursday, Feb 06, 2020 |
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Session Chair: Raphael Flauger (UCSD)
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| 9:00am |
Hai-bo Yu (UC Riverside) |
Self-Interacting Dark Matter[Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 9:45am |
Lauren Pearce
(Penn State New Kensington) |
Phenomenology of Fermion Production During Axion Inflation[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 10:30am |
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| 11:00am |
Sarah Shandera (Penn State) |
Dark Black Holes[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 11:45am |
Adam Solomon (CMU) |
Superfluids and the Cosmological Constant Problem[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 12:30pm |
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Session Chair: Yanou Cui (UC Riverside)
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| 2:00pm |
Daniel Green (UCSD) |
Signatures of Light Relics in the CMB and LSS[Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 2:45pm |
Dick Bond, Jonathan Braden
(CITA) |
webskying the Universe in search of Beyond-the-SMC[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 3:45pm |
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| 4:00pm |
Graham White (TRIUMF) |
The See Saw Mechanism: Using Cosmology to Reach Across a Desert[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 4:45pm |
Richard Easther
Nathan Musoke
(Auckland) |
Lighting the Dark: Nonlinear Dynamics and the Primordial Dark Age[Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 5:30pm |
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