| Time |
Speaker |
Title |
| 8/06, 12:30 p.m. |
Dr. David Wands
KITP & Portsmouth |
What a Cosmologist Wants from String Theory[Slides][Aud][Cam] |
| 8/07, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Stephen Shenker
KITP & Stanford |
The Black Hole Singularity in AdS/CFT[Aud][Cam] |
| 8/12, 10:30 a.m. |
Dr. Stephen Shenker
KITP & Stanford (Moderator) |
Informal Discussion of Cosmological Singularities[Aud][Cam] |
| 8/13, 12:00 p.m. |
Dr. Finn Larsen
KITP & Univ. of Michigan |
de Sitter Holography and the CMB[Slides][Aud][Cam] |
| 8/14, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Geraldine Servant
KITP & Univ. of Chicago |
Kaluza-Klein Dark Matter[Slides][Aud][Cam] |
| 8/19, 10:30 a.m. |
Dr. Csaba Csaki
(KITP & Cornell (discussion leader))
Dr. Christophe Grojean
(KITP & Saclay (discussion leader)) |
Discussion on Modifications of Gravity at Large Distances[Aud][Cam] |
| 8/20, 9:00 a.m. |
Dr. Steve Giddings
KITP & UCSB |
Branes, Fluxes, Moduli Potentials, and the Fate of Four Dimensions[Aud][Cam] |
| 8/21, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Eva Silverstein
KITP & SLAC |
Entropy and Holography in (A)ds Flux Models[Slides][Aud][Cam] |
| 8/22, 10:30 a.m. |
Dr. Gabriele Veneziano
KITP & CERN (discussion leader) |
Discussion on Problems in Bouncing Cosmologies[Aud][Cam] |
| 8/26, 10:30 a.m. |
Dr. Shamit Kachru
Stanford |
Inflation from String Theory[Aud][Cam] |
| 8/27, 12:00 a.m. |
Dr. Washington Taylor
MIT |
String Field Theory, Cosmology, and Tachyons[Aud][Cam] |
| 8/28, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Fernando Quevedo
University of Cambridge |
Branonium[Slides][Aud][Cam] |
| 8/28, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Cliff Burgess
McGill University |
Warped Brane Worlds from 6d Gauged Supergravity[Slides][Aud][Cam] |
| 8/29, 10:30 a.m. |
Dr. Sean Carroll
University of Chicago |
Why is the Universe Accelerating?[Aud][Cam] |
| 9/03, 12:00 p.m. |
Dr. Lam Hui
Fermilab |
Running Spectral Index Inflation and Gravity Waves -- an Astrophysicist's Perspective[Slides][Aud][Cam] |
| 9/04, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Andrei Linde
Stanford |
Eternal Inflation[Slides][Aud][Cam] |
| 9/09, 10:30 a.m. |
Dr. Raphael Bousso,
KITP & UC Berkeley |
Holography in Cosmology and in Flat Space[Aud][Cam] |
| 9/10, 12:30 p.m. |
Dr. David Wands
Portsmouth |
Alternate Scenarios for the Origin of Structure[Aud][Cam] |
| 9/11, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Renata Kallosh
Stanford |
Review of Inflation in String Theory[Slides][Aud][Cam] |
| 9/16, 10:30 a.m. |
Dr. Jim Hartle
UCSB |
Discussion: Wavefunction of the Universe[Slides][Aud][Cam] |
| 9/17, 12:00 p.m. |
Dr. Brian Greene
Columbia |
Discussion: Transplanckian Effects in Inflation[Slides][Aud][Cam] |
| 9/18, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Alessandra Buonanno
Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris |
Gravitational Waves and the Very Early Universe[Slides][Aud][Cam] |
| 9/23, 10:30 a.m. |
Dr. Edmund Copeland
Sussex |
Discussion: Perturbations in Bouncing Cosmologies[Aud][Cam] |
| 9/24, 12:00 p.m. |
Dr. Gary Horowitz
UCSB |
Cosmic Censorship Violation in String Theory[Slides][Aud][Cam] |
| 9/25, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. David Langlois
Inst. Astro., Paris |
Cosmology in a Brane-Universe[Slides][Aud][Cam] |
| 10/01, 12:00 p.m. |
Dr. Sandip Trivedi
Tata Institute |
Attempts at Inflation in String Theory Flux Compactifications[Aud][Cam] |
| 10/02, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Elias Kiritsis
CPHT, École Polytechnique |
Cosmological Brane Bulk Energy Exchange and New Mechanisms for Acceleration[Slides][Aud] |
| 10/07, 10:30 a.m. |
Dr. Veronika Hubeny
Stanford |
Black Holes in Asymptotically Plane Wave Space-Times[Slides][Aud][Cam] |
| 10/08, 12:00 p.m. |
Dr. Mark Trodden
Syracuse University |
Is Cosmic Acceleration Telling Us Something about Gravity?[Slides][Aud][Cam] |
| 10/09, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Nemanja Kaloper
UC Davis |
Quantum Black Holes as Holograms[Slides][Aud][Cam] |
| 10/14, 10:30 a.m. |
Dr. Scott Thomas
Stanford |
Fundamental Physics from Precision Cosmology[Aud][Cam] |
| 10/15, 12:30 p.m. |
Dr. Stephen Hawking
Cambridge |
Cosmology from the Top Down[Aud][Cam] |
| 10/16, 1:30 p.m. |
Dr. Ramy Brustein
Ben Gurion University, Beer Sheva |
Discussion: Interpreting the Accelerated Expansion of the Universe[Aud][Cam] |
| 10/13-17 |
Conference: |
Superstring Cosmology |
| 10/28, 10:30 a.m. |
Dr. Jim Cline
McGill |
Discussion Session: Multi-field Inflation from String Theory?[Aud][Cam] |
| 10/29, 12:00 p.m. |
Dr. Robert Brandenberger
Brown |
Back Reaction of Cosmological Perturbations and the Cosmological Constant?[Aud][Cam] |
| 11/04, 10:30 a.m. |
Dr. Thibault Damour
IHES |
E10 and a Small Tension Expansion of M-Theory[Slides][Aud][Cam] |
| 11/05, 12:00 p.m. |
Dr. Joe Polchinski
KITP |
F and D Cosmic Strings in Flux Compactifications[Slides][Aud][Cam] |
|
| 11/06, 2:00 p.m. |
Amanda Weltman
Columbia |
Chameleon Fields: Awaiting Surprises for Tests of Gravity in Space[Slides][Aud][Cam] |
| 11/12, 12:00 p.m. |
Dr. Gary Horowitz
UCSB |
The Black Hole Final State[Aud][Cam] |
| 11/13, 12:00 p.m. |
Dr. Andrew Chamblin
Los Alamos |
Holographic Weyl Entropy Bounds[Slides][Aud][Cam] |
| 11/18, 10:30 a.m. |
Dr. David Lyth
University of Lancaster |
What is the Best Model of Inflation?[Aud][Cam] |
| 11/19, 12:00 p.m. |
Dr. Sergey Solodukhin
Bremen |
Cosmological Horizon Holography[Aud][Cam] |
| 11/20, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Stephon Alexander
SLAC |
Topological Inflation and D-anti-D-Brane Annihilation[Slides][Aud][Cam] |
| 11/25, 10:30 a.m. |
Dr. Albion Lawrence
Brandeis |
The Quantum to Classical Transition in Inflation[Aud][Cam] |
| 12/02, 10:30 a.m. |
Dr. Micha Berkooz
Weizmann Institute |
Standard Model Baryogenesis with Horizontal Symmetries[Slides][Aud][Cam] |
| 12/03, 12:00 p.m. |
Dr. Andrew Strominger
Harvard |
Matrix Model for AdS2[Aud][Cam] |
| 12/04, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Tom Banks
UCSC & Rutgers |
Holographic Cosmology[Slides][Aud][Cam] |
| 12/10, 12:00 p.m. |
Dr. Steve Gubser
Princeton |
String Inspired Modifications of Cold Dark Matter[Slides][Aud][Cam] |
| 12/11, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Sean Carroll
University of Chicago |
How Eternal Inflation Explains the Second Law of Thermodynamics[Aud][Cam] |
| 12/16, 10:30 a.m. |
Dr. Don Marolf
UCSB |
Entropy Bounds: Can We Live Without Them?[Slides][Aud][Cam] |
| 12/17, 12:00 p.m. |
End of Program Discussion |
Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going? |