Monday, February 25, 2008
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Morning Session Chair: Lev Kofman
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8:50am |
Martin Einhorn
(KITP Deputy Director)
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Welcome [Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
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9:00am |
Andrei Linde
(Stanford)
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QFT Aspects of Inflation [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
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10:00am |
MORNING BREAK |
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10:30am |
Roman Scoccimarro
(NYU)
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Resummation in Gravitational Clustering in Cosmology [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
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11:30am |
Sterl Phinney
(Caltech)
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Prospects for Detecting Gravitational Waves from Nonequilibrium Phenomena [Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
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12:30pm |
LUNCH BREAK |
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Afternoon Session Chair: Jan Smit
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2:00pm |
Mark Hindmarsh
(Univ. of Sussex)
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Cosmic Strings - Lessons from Field Theory [Slides][Podcast][Vid][Aud][Cam] |
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2:30pm |
Arttu Rajantie
(Imperial College)
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Formation of Cosmic Strings in Gauge Field Theory [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
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3:00pm |
Alex Chambers
(Imperial College)
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Lattice Calculation of Non-Gaussianity from Preheating [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
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3:30pm |
AFTERNOON BREAK |
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4:00pm |
Dongsu Bak
(Univ. Seoul)
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Time Dependent Black Holes and Thermal Equilibration [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
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4:30pm |
Esteban Calzetta
(FCEN - Buenos Aires)
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Analog Cosmology with Spinor Bose-Einstein Condensates [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
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5:00pm |
Bei-Lok B. Hu
(Univ. Maryland)
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Cosmological Perturbations and Structure Formation via Stochastic Gravity [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
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6:00pm |
SHUTTLE TO BWSCI |
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Tuesday, February 26, 2008
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Morning Session Chair: Laurence Yaffe
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9:00am |
Barbara Jacak
(SUNY, Stony Brook)
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Experimenting with Strongly Coupled QCD Matter at RHIC [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
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10:00am |
MORNING BREAK |
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10:30am |
Ulrich Heinz
(Ohio State/CERN)
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Viscous Hydrodynamics for Heavy-ion Collisions [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
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11:30am |
Guy Moore
(McGill Univ.)
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QCD Plasma Instabilities [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
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12:30pm |
LUNCH BREAK |
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Afternoon Session Chair: Mikko Laine
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2:00pm |
Mike Strickland
(Frankfurt IAS)
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Measuring QGP Isotropization Time with High-Energy Dileptons [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
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2:30pm |
Dietrich Bodeker
(Univ. of Bielefeld)
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Plasma Instabilities [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
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3:00pm |
Sebastian Scheffler
(Darmstadt Univ.)
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Bottom-up Isotropization in Classical-statistical Lattice Gauge Theory [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
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3:30pm |
AFTERNOON BREAK |
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4:00pm |
Pawel Danielewicz
(NSCL, MSU)
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Partons in Phase Space [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
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4:30pm |
Ariel Zhitnitsky
(Univ of British Columbia)
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From RHIC Physics to Cosmology: 511 KeV Line and Other Diffuse
Emissions as a Trace of the Dark Matter [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
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5:00pm |
Fred Cooper
(NSF)
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Quantum Back Reaction Problem in QED and QCD [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
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6:00pm |
RECEPTION, WINE & NUTS |
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6:30pm |
SPECIAL EVENTS DINNER |
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8:30pm |
SHUTTLE TO BWSCI |
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Wednesday, February 27, 2008
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Morning Session Chair: Wilfried Buchmuller
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9:00am |
Peter Petreczky
(Brookhaven Nat'l Lab)
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Euclidean Correlators and Spectral Functions in Lattice QCD [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
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10:00am |
MORNING BREAK |
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10:30am |
Mikko Laine
(Univ. Bielefeld)
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Cosmological Phase Transitions [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
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11:30am |
Joseph Polchinski
(UCSB, KITP)
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A Matrix Model for Black Hole Thermalization [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
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12:30pm |
LUNCH BREAK |
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2:00pm |
POSTER SESSION |
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3:00pm |
FREE AFTERNOON |
SHUTTLE AVAILABLE TO BWSCI |
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Thursday, February 28, 2008
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Morning Session Chair: Juergen Berges
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9:00am |
Andreas Karch
(Univ. Washington)
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Gauge-string Duality [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
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10:00am |
MORNING BREAK |
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10:30am |
Szabolcs Borsanyi
(Univ. Sussex)
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Nonequilibrium QFT [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
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11:30am |
Jan Smit
(Univ. Amsterdam)
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Lattice Simulations of Nonequilibrium Dynamics [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
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12:00pm |
Gary Felder
(Smith College)
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Gravity Waves from Preheating [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
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12:30pm |
LUNCH BREAK |
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Afternoon Session Chair: Emil Mottola
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2:00pm |
Dam T. Son
(Univ. Washington)
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Hydrodynamics from Gauge/Gravity Duality [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
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2:30pm |
Alex Buchel
(Univ. W. Ontario)
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Boost-invariant Plasma in AdS/CFT [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
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3:00pm |
Christopher Herzog
(Princeton)
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Impure AdS/CFT [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
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3:30pm |
AFTERNOON BREAK |
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4:00pm |
Pavel Kovtun
(Univ. of Victoria)
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Universality without Symmetry [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
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4:30pm |
Denes Sexty
(TU Darmstadt)
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Real Time Simulations from Stochastic Quantisation [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
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5:00pm |
Markus M. Mueller
(MPI Heidelberg)
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Comparison of Boltzmann Kinetics with Quantum Dynamics for Relativistic Quantum Fields [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
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6:00pm |
RECEPTION, WINE & NUTS |
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6:30pm |
SPECIAL EVENTS DINNER |
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8:30pm |
SHUTTLE TO BWSCI |
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Friday, February 29, 2008
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Morning Session Chair: Owe Philipsen
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9:00am |
Wilfried Buchmuller
(DESY)
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Baryogenesis and Dark Matter [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
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10:00am |
MORNING BREAK |
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10:30am |
Marco Peloso
(Univ. Minnesota)
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Preheating after Inflation [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
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11:30am |
George Fuller
(UCSD)
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Frontiers of Neutrino Physics and Supernovae [Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
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12:30pm |
LUNCH BREAK |
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Afternoon Session Chair: Mark Hindmarsh
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2:00pm |
Thomas Gasenzer
(Univ. of Heidelberg)
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Hot Dynamics of Ultracold Atoms [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
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2:30pm |
Sergei Khlebnikov
(Purdue Univ.)
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Classical Thermodynamics of Gravitational Collapse [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
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3:30pm |
CONFERENCE END |
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3:45pm |
SHUTTLE TO BWSCI |
Shuttle also available to the SB Airport and SB Airbus, Goleta location. See Jocelyn to sign up. |
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WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON
ABSTRACTS/POSTER PRESENTATIONS
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Andrew Beckwith
(TcSAM)
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Several Routes to Determining Entropy Generation in the Early Universe[Slides] |
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Yannis Burnier
(Bielefeld Univ.)
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Heavy Quarkonium as a Probe of Hot QCD [Slides] |
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Paul Chesler
(Univ. Washington)
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Jets in Strongly Coupled N = 4 Super Yang-Mills |
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Mathias Garny
(MPI Heidelberg)
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Kadanoff-Baym Equations and 2PI Renormalization |
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Yoshimasa Hidaka
(Brookhaven Nat'l Lab)
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Suppression of the Shear Viscosity as QCD Cools Into a Confining Phase[Slides] |
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Rudnei O. Ramos
(Rio de Janeiro State Univ)
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Fluctuation and Dissipation in Nonequilibrium QFT
and Studying Local Effective Langevin Dynamics [Slides] |
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Arnau Rios
(NSCL, MSU)
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Time-dependent Green's Functions Approach to Nuclear Reactions[Slides] |
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