Cosmo06 Talks Available Online
Click on the talk to view. All talks are in either powerpoint format [ppt] or as a [PDF]. These are the current talks available online. For a list of all talks given, go to the Program page.
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Plenary Talks
- Joe Polchinski (University of California, Santa Barbara), "Cosmic Strings and Superstrings" [ppt]
- Csaba Csaki (Cornell University), "Accelerated acceleration (without phantoms)" [pdf]
- Olivier Doré (Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics, University of Toronto), "Cosmological knowledge after three years of WMAP observations" [pdf]
- Dick Bond (Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics, University of Toronto), "Inflation, Gravity Waves and the CMB" [ppt]
- Henk Hoekstra (University of Victoria), "Cosmic Shear: Current Status and near future" [ppt]
- Katsushi Arisaka (University of California, Los Angelos), "Unveiling the Mystery of Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays" [ppt]
- Dragan Huterer (University of Chicago), "Lambda or not Lambda: Exploring the Dark Energy Domain" [pdf]
- David Wittman (University of California, Davis), "Future Weak Lensing Surveys" [pdf]
- Paolo Creminelli (International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste), "Non-Gaussianities of Cosmological Perturbations" [ppt]
- Jacqueline Hewitt (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), "21cm Experiments for Reionization and the Dark Ages: Plans and Progress" [ppt]
- Neil Turok (Cambridge University), "The Cyclic Universe Scenario" [pdf]
- Manoj Kaplinghat (University of California, Irvine), "Dark Matter from Decays" [pdf]
- Andrei Linde (Stanford University), "Eternal Inflation and Sinks in the Landscape" [ppt]
- Nikhil Padmanabhan (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab), "Galaxy clustering with the SDSS Imaging Data : Gigaparsec Scales, BAO, and all that...." [pdf]
- Shamit Kachru (Stanford University), "String Theory and Gravitational Waves" [pdf]
- Barth Netterfield (University of Toronto), "Future CMB Polarization Measurements" [ppt]
- Lisa Randall (Harvard University), "Searching for Warped Geometry with Gravity Waves" [ppt]
- Michael Turner (University of Chicago), "Looking Back and Looking Forward" [ppt]
Parallel Talks
Eternal Inflation and Inflationary Predictions
- Sergei Winitzki (Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich), "Eternal Inflation and Inflationary Predictions" [pdf]
- Eugene Lim (Yale), "Counting Pockets in Eternal Inflation : The Worldline Measure" [pdf]
- Matthew C Johnson (UC Santa Cruz), "Bubble Nucleation Mechanisms and Eternal Inflation" [pdf]
- Amir Hajian (Princeton), "Efficient Cosmological Parameter Estimation with Hamiltonian Monte Carlo" [ppt]
- Christophe Ringeval (Imperial College London), "Inflation after WMAP3: The Exact Numerical Treatment" [pdf]
- Scott Watson (U Toronto), "Spontaneously Broken de Sitter Space" [pdf]
- Mark Hindmarsh (Sussex), "Constraints on Inflationary Models with Cosmic Strings" [ppt]
- Pascal Vaudrevange (U Toronto), "Scanning Inflation" [pdf]
New Cosmological Probes
- Laura Cadonati (MIT) for the LIGO Scientific Collaboration, "Exploring the Gravitational Wave Sky with LIGO" [pdf]
- Sirichai Chongchitnan (Cambridge), "Primordial Gravitational Waves: Is it Worth the Search" [ppt]
- Cristian Armendariz-Picon (Syracuse), "Are Primordial Perturbations Statistically Isotropic" [pdf]
- Steven Furlanetto (Yale), "Cosmology with the 21cm Transition" [ppt]
- Siang Peng Oh (UC Santa Barbara), "21cm Emission from High-Redshift: Beyond the Power Spectrum" [pdf]
- Kris Sigurdson (Princeton), "Cosmic 21cm Fluctuations from Dark-Age Gas" [ppt]
- Miguel Morales (MIT), "The Sensitivity of EOR Observations" [pdf]
Models for the Early Universe
- Alberto Iglesias (UC Davis), "Nonperturbative Effects of Modified Gravity" [pdf]
- Sergey Prokushkin (CITA), "Ensemble of Kaehler Moduli/Axion Inflations" [pdf]
- Patrick Greene (San Antonio), "Inflation and the Geometry of Our Miniverse" [pdf]
- Ryuichiro Kitano (SLAC), "Moduli Decays and Gravitinos" [pdf]
- Jérôme Martin (IAP), "Dark Energy and the MSSM" [ppt]
- Pasquale Di Bari (MPI Munich), "Flavor effects on leptogenesis predictions" [ppt]
- Leonardo Senatore (MIT), "Starting the Universe: Stable Violation of the Null Energy Condition and Non-standard Cosmologies" [ppt]
- Sergei Dubovsky (Harvard), "Black holes in the Higgs phases of gravity" [pdf]
- Natalia Shuhmaher (McGill), "Early stages of the Universe: brane gas-driven bulk dynamics" [pdf]
Astrophysical Constraints on the Nature of Dark Matter
- Edward Baltz (SLAC), "Combining Data on Dark Matter" [pdf]
- Patrick McDonald (CITA), "Probing dark matter clustering using the Lyman-alpha forest" [ppt]
- Louis Strigari (UC Irvine), "Measuring Dark Matter Distributions in Local Group Galaxies with Space Interferometry" [pdf]
- Michael Kuhlen (UC Santa Cruz), "Dark Matter Substructure in the Milky Way Halo" [pdf]
- Savvas M. Koushiappas (LANL), "Proper motion of gamma-rays from microhalo sources" [ppt]
- Michael Kesden (CITA) - Probing Dark-Matter Forces with Tidal Streams" [ppt]
Cosmological Probes of Fundamental Physics
- Arttu Rajantie (Cambridge), "Heavy Cosmic Strings" [pdf]
- Antonio De Felice (Sussex), "Ghosts, Instabilities, and Superluminal Propagation in Modified Gravity Models" [pdf]
- Justin Khoury (MIT), "Fading Gravity and Self-Inflation" [ppt]
- Andrew Tolley (Princeton), "Mimicking Lambda with a Spin-Two Ghost Condensate" [pdf]
- Dejan Stojkovic (Case Western Reserve University), "Formation, Evaporation and Observation of Black Holes" [pdf]
- Katherine Freese (U Michigan), "Natural Inflation after WMAP3" [ppt]
- Neil Turok (Cambridge), "Getting the Measure of Inflation" [pdf]
Probes of Dark Energy
- Tony Tyson (UC Davis), "The LSST Project and Dark Energy" [pdf]
- Natalia Kuznetsova (LBNL), "The Supernova Acceleration Probe (SNAP)" [ppt]
- Yun Wang (U Oklahoma), "Dark Energy Search" [ppt]
- Ryan Scranton (U Pittsburgh), "Global Integrated Sachs-Wolfe Detection" [pdf]
- Sheng Wang (Columbia), "Constraining cosmology by using high-shear regions" [ppt]
- Jeffrey Newman (LBNL), "Calibrating Photometric Redshifts Beyond Spectroscopic Limits" [ppt]
- Rachel Bean (Cornell), "Dark Energy: novel matter or gravity?" [pdf]
- Niayesh Afshordi (Harvard), "Cuscuton Cosmology: Dark Energy meets Modified Gravity" [ppt]
- Ignacy Sawicki (U Chicago), "Near-Horizon Solution for DGP Perturbations" [ppt]