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*Please note: Many talks are available for viewing online by just clicking on the speaker's name or the talk's title. All talks are in either powerpoint format [ppt] or as a [PDF].

Sunday

• Welcome reception 5:30-6:30 on the Garden Deck
• Dinner 6:30-7:30

Plenary Program

Monday morning (8:30am-12:30pm):

• Winston Ko (UCD Dean of Mathematical and Physical Sciences) Welcome
• 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]

Monday afternoon (2pm-5:30pm): Parallel Sessions (Click here to view details below)

Tuesday morning (9:00am-12:20pm):

• 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]
• Adam Riess (Space Telescope Science Institute and Johns Hopkins University), "Supernovae and Dark Energy"

Tuesday afternoon (2:00pm-6:00pm):

• 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]

Wednesday morning (8:30am-12:20pm):

• Neil Turok (Cambridge University), "The Cyclic Universe Scenario" [pdf]
• Manoj Kaplinghat (University of California, Irvine), "Dark Matter from Decays" [pdf]
• Neil Weiner (Center for Cosmology and Particle Physics, New York University), "Late Forming Dark Matter in Theories of Neutrino Dark Energy"

Wednesday Afternoon (12:20pm-6pm): Free Time

• Box lunches provided by the Granlibakken Conference Center
• Check here for some suggested fun area activities.
• This page has more detailed contact info for the activities that require reservations.

Thursday morning (8:30am-12:20pm):

• 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]
• Ruth Gregory (Durham University), "Have Modified Branes got us Spooked?"
• Shamit Kachru (Stanford University), "String Theory and Gravitational Waves" [pdf]

Thursday afternoon (2pm-5:30pm): Parallel Sessions (Click here to view details below)

Friday morning (8:30am-11am):

• 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]

The final session ends at 11am on Friday September 29 which should allow participants to catch flights leaving Tahoe/Reno airport at 2pm or later.

Parallel Sessions Schedules:

Monday afternoon (2pm-5:30pm)

• Eternal Inflation and Inflationary Predictions - Anthony Aguirre
  1. Sergei Winitzki (Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich), "Eternal Inflation and Inflationary Predictions" [pdf]
  2. Eugene Lim (Yale), "Counting Pockets in Eternal Inflation : The Worldline Measure" [pdf]
  3. Matthew C Johnson (UC Santa Cruz), "Bubble Nucleation Mechanisms and Eternal Inflation" [pdf]
  4. Amir Hajian (Princeton), "Efficient Cosmological Parameter Estimation with Hamiltonian Monte Carlo" [ppt]
  5. Christophe Ringeval (Imperial College London), "Inflation after WMAP3: The Exact Numerical Treatment" [pdf]
  6. Scott Watson (U Toronto), "Spontaneously Broken de Sitter Space" [pdf]
  7. Mark Hindmarsh (Sussex), "Constraints on Inflationary Models with Cosmic Strings" [ppt]
  8. Pascal Vaudrevange (U Toronto), "Scanning Inflation" [pdf]
• New Cosmological Probes - Manoj Kaplinghat
  1. Laura Cadonati (MIT) for the LIGO Scientific Collaboration, "Exploring the Gravitational Wave Sky with LIGO" [pdf]
  2. Brian Keating (UC San Diego), "Probing Inflation with Future CMB Polarization Experiments"
  3. Sirichai Chongchitnan (Cambridge), "Primordial Gravitational Waves: Is it Worth the Search" [ppt]
  4. Cristian Armendariz-Picon (Syracuse), "Are Primordial Perturbations Statistically Isotropic" [pdf]
  5. Steven Furlanetto (Yale), "Cosmology with the 21cm Transition" [ppt]
  6. Siang Peng Oh (UC Santa Barbara), "21cm Emission from High-Redshift: Beyond the Power Spectrum" [pdf]
  7. Kris Sigurdson (Princeton), "Cosmic 21cm Fluctuations from Dark-Age Gas" [ppt]
  8. Miguel Morales (MIT), "The Sensitivity of EOR Observations" [pdf]
• Models for the Early Universe - Lorenzo Sorbo
  1. Alberto Iglesias (UC Davis), "Nonperturbative Effects of Modified Gravity" [pdf]
  2. Sergey Prokushkin (CITA), "Ensemble of Kaehler Moduli/Axion Inflations" [pdf]
  3. Patrick Greene (San Antonio), "Inflation and the Geometry of Our Miniverse" [pdf]
  4. Ryuichiro Kitano (SLAC), "Moduli Decays and Gravitinos" [pdf]
  5. Jérôme Martin (IAP), "Dark Energy and the MSSM" [ppt]
  6. Pasquale Di Bari (MPI Munich), "Flavor effects on leptogenesis predictions" [ppt]
  7. Leonardo Senatore (MIT), "Starting the Universe: Stable Violation of the Null Energy Condition and Non-standard Cosmologies" [ppt]
  8. Sergei Dubovsky (Harvard), "Black holes in the Higgs phases of gravity" [pdf]
  9. Natalia Shuhmaher (McGill), "Early stages of the Universe: brane gas-driven bulk dynamics" [pdf]

Thursday Afternoon (2pm-5:30pm)

• Astrophysical Constraints on the Nature of Dark Matter - James Bullock
  1. Stefano Profumo (Cal Tech), "Dark Matter Candidates"
  2. Edward Baltz (SLAC), "Combining Data on Dark Matter" [pdf]
  3. Patrick McDonald (CITA), "Probing dark matter clustering using the Lyman-alpha forest" [ppt]
  4. Andrew Zentner (U Chicago), "Probing the Nature of Dark Matter with Halo Substructure"
  5. Louis Strigari (UC Irvine), "Measuring Dark Matter Distributions in Local Group Galaxies with Space Interferometry" [pdf]
  6. Michael Kuhlen (UC Santa Cruz), "Dark Matter Substructure in the Milky Way Halo" [pdf]
  7. Savvas M. Koushiappas (LANL), "Proper motion of gamma-rays from microhalo sources" [ppt]
  8. Michael Kesden (CITA) - Probing Dark-Matter Forces with Tidal Streams" [ppt]
• Cosmological Probes of Fundamental Physics - Matthew Kleban
  1. Arttu Rajantie (Cambridge), "Heavy Cosmic Strings" [pdf]
  2. Yong-Seon Song (U Chicago), "The Large Scale Structure Formation of f(R) Theory"
  3. Antonio De Felice (Sussex), "Ghosts, Instabilities, and Superluminal Propagation in Modified Gravity Models" [pdf]
  4. Justin Khoury (MIT), "Fading Gravity and Self-Inflation" [ppt]
  5. Andrew Tolley (Princeton), "Mimicking Lambda with a Spin-Two Ghost Condensate" [pdf]
  6. Dejan Stojkovic (Case Western Reserve University), "Formation, Evaporation and Observation of Black Holes" [pdf]
  7. Katherine Freese (U Michigan), "Natural Inflation after WMAP3" [ppt]
  8. Neil Turok (Cambridge), "Getting the Measure of Inflation" [pdf]
• Probes of Dark Energy - Hu Zhan
  1. Tony Tyson (UC Davis), "The LSST Project and Dark Energy" [pdf]
  2. Natalia Kuznetsova (LBNL), "The Supernova Acceleration Probe (SNAP)" [ppt]
  3. Yun Wang (U Oklahoma), "Dark Energy Search" [ppt]
  4. Ryan Scranton (U Pittsburgh), "Global Integrated Sachs-Wolfe Detection" [pdf]
  5. Sheng Wang (Columbia), "Constraining cosmology by using high-shear regions" [ppt]
  6. Jeffrey Newman (LBNL), "Calibrating Photometric Redshifts Beyond Spectroscopic Limits" [ppt]
  7. Rachel Bean (Cornell), "Dark Energy: novel matter or gravity?" [pdf]
  8. Niayesh Afshordi (Harvard), "Cuscuton Cosmology: Dark Energy meets Modified Gravity" [ppt]
  9. Ignacy Sawicki (U Chicago), "Near-Horizon Solution for DGP Perturbations" [ppt]