| November 13 | |
| Thursday Morning | Chair: P. Greene |
| Theme: Mostly Branes, Strings, and de Sitter Space-Time |
|
| Time | Speaker | Title |
| 09:00 am | Patrick B. Greene |
Welcome |
| 09:10 am | Andrei Linde (Stanford) |
Towards Inflation in String Theory |
| 09:50 am | Jerome Martin (Inst. d'Astro. Paris, CNRS | Parametric Amplification of Metrics
Fluctuations Through a Bouncing Phase |
| 10:30 am | Coffee Break | |
| 11:00 am | Savdeep Sethi (University of Chicago) | Some Thoughts on Time-Dependent String Theory |
| 11:40 am |
Sergei Khlebnikov (Purdue) |
A Dual Description of Decoherence in de Sitter Space (talk as .pdf) |
| 12:20 am | Marco Peloso (CITA) | de Sitter Branes and the Gravi-Scalar Nature of the Radion |
| 01:00pm -- 02:30 pm | Lunch Break | |
| Thursday Afternoon | Chair:
K. Kadota |
| Theme: More Branes, Strings, and de Sitter
Space-Time |
| Time | Speaker | Title |
| 02:30 pm | Johannes Martin (University of Toronto/CITA) |
Branedynamics (talk as .pdf) |
| 03:05 pm | Andrei Frolov (KIPAC/ITP, Stanford) |
Can Inflating Braneworlds be Stabilized? (talk as .pdf) |
| 03:40 pm |
Leonard Parker (UW Milwaukee) | Acceleration of the Universe from Heat Kernal Asymptotics (talk as .html) |
| 04:15
pm |
Coffee
Break |
|
| 04:45 pm |
Richard Woodard (University of Florida) | Post-Inflationary Dynamics (talk as .pdf) |
| 05:30 pm | Discussion/TBA |
|
| 06:00 pm -- 07:00pm | Reception on Second Floor Overpass (Outside of Curia II) | |
| November 14 | |
| Friday Morning | Chair:
E. Kolb |
| Theme: Back-reaction of Fluctuations | |
| Time | Speaker | Title |
| 09:10 am | Robert Brandenberger (Brown University) |
Back-Reaction of Cosmological
Perturbations on a Local Measure of the Expansion (talk as .pdf) |
| 09:50 am | Fabio Finelli (IASF/CNR) |
Energy-Momentum Tensor of Cosmological Fluctuations in Massive Chaotic Inflation (talk as .ps) |
| 10:30 am | Coffee Break | |
| 11:00 am | Paul Anderson (Wake Forest University) |
Linear Response Theory
and the Validity of the Semiclassical Approximation (talk as .ps) |
| 11:40 am |
Emil Mottola (LANL) |
Allowed
States and Stress Tensor Fluctuations in de Sitter Space |
| 12:20 pm | Erick Weinberg (Columbia) |
New Bounce Solutions and Vacuum Tunneling in de Sitter Spacetime (talk as .pdf) |
| 01:00 pm -- 0:2:30 pm | Lunch Break | |
| Friday Afternoon | Chair:
F. Finelli |
| Theme: Potpourri (strings, branes, back-reaction, and initial conditions) |
| Time | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 02:30 pm | Emil Martinec (University of Chicago) | Having the World on a String |
| 03:10 pm |
Atsushi Higuchi (University of
York, UK) |
Long-distance
Behavior of the Graviton Propagator |
| 03:45 pm |
Tomislav Prokopec (University of Heidelberg) | Production of Massless Fermions during Inflation |
| 04:20 pm | Coffee Break | |
| 04:50 pm |
Kenji Kadota (UC Berkeley) | A Resolution for Initial-Condition/Fine-tuning Problems in Modular Cosmology |
| 05:25 pm | Patrick B. Greene (Fermilab) | Inflation and the Breadth of Our Baby Universe |
| 06:00 pm |
Discussion/TBA | |
| 06:30 pm | Break for Day | |
| November 15 | |
| Saturday |
Chair:
C. Armendariz-Picon |
| Theme: Initial
Conditions and Alpha-Vacua |
|
| Time | Speaker | Title |
| 09:00 am | Katie Freese (U. Michigan at Ann Arbor) | What can WMAP tell us about the very early universe? (talk as .pdf) |
| 09:35 am |
Eugene Lim (University of Chicago) | Constraints
on Inflationary Vacuum Choices (talk as .pdf) |
| 10:10 am |
Daniel Chung (UW Madison) | Theoretical
Uncertainties of the Standard Inflationary Vacuum |
| 10:45 am |
David Lowe (Brown University) | Alpha_vac Perturbation Theory (talk as postscript or powerpoint) |
| 11:20 am -- 11:50 am |
Coffee Break | |
| 11:50 am |
Hael Collins (Carnegie Mellon
University) |
The Fate of the Alpha-Vacuum (talk as .pdf or as powerpoint) |
| 12:25 pm |
Matthew Martin (Carnegie Mellon
University) |
Vacuum Selection and the Enhancement of Inflaton Loops (talk as .ps) |
| 01:00 pm |
Stefan Hollands (University of
Chicago) |
Alpha-Vacua
Ruled Out by General Covariance |
| 01:35 pm |
Rocky Kolb |
Closing Remarks |
| 01:45
pm |
End
of Workshop |
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