Schedule
Workshop on Cosmic Acceleration
Friday, August 24, 2012 - Sunday, August 26, 2012
(Giant Eagle Auditorium, Baker Hall A51, Carnegie Mellon University)
- Plenary talks will be 30 minutes long plus 10 minutes for questions; all other talks will be 15 minutes long plus 5 minutes for questions.
- All speakers are requested to send a PDF version of their talks to Nishant Agarwal (nishanta@andrew.cmu.edu) no later than 6:00 p.m. on the day before their talk. In the interest of saving time between talks, all talks will be uploaded on a common computer available to speakers.
- A shuttle bus will run on loop from 7:30 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. each day from the workshop hotels (Holiday Inn and Hilton Garden Inn) to the workshop venue. Additionally, a shuttle bus would run on loop from 7:00 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. on August 24 from the Carnegie Museum to the hotels, from 5:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. on August 25 from the workshop venue to the hotels, and from 11:30 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. on August 26 from the workshop venue to the hotels.
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Time |
Speaker |
Title |
Session Chair |
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08:45-09:00 |
Welcome (Gregg Franklin) |
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09:00-09:40 |
Gregory Gabadadze |
Massive gravity and quasi-dilation: Theory and cosmology |
Mark Trodden |
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09:40-10:20 |
Claudia de Rham |
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10:20-10:40 |
Andrew Tolley |
Helicity zero mode in cosmological solutions in massive gravity and bigravity | |
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10:40-11:00 |
Coffee break |
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11:00-11:40 |
Rachel Bean |
Discerning dark energy's character | Mark Trodden |
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11:40-12:20 |
Rachel Mandelbaum |
Observational constraints on dark energy vs. modified gravity |
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12:20-14:00 |
Lunch break |
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14:00-14:20 |
Rachel Rosen |
Recent developments in massive gravity |
Justin Khoury |
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14:20-14:40 |
Matteo Fasiello |
The interplay of stability requirements and observations in massive gravity |
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14:40-15:00 |
Lavinia Heisenberg |
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15:00-15:20 |
Garrett Goon |
Galileons as Wess-Zumino terms | |
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15:20-15:40 |
Goddfrey Miller |
Spatially covariant theories of a transverse, traceless graviton |
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15:40-16:00 |
Coffee break |
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16:00-16:20 |
Ezra Newman |
Tina Kahniashvili |
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16:20-16:40 |
Yi-Zen Chu |
The problem of motion in the presence of Vainshtein screening |
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16:40-17:00 |
David Jacobs |
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17:00-17:20 |
George Zahariade |
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17:20-17:40 |
Jolyon Bloomfield |
Matter interactions in effective field theories of dark energy | |
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18:30-21:00 |
Dinner reception at Carnegie museum |
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Saturday, August 25, 2012
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Time |
Speaker |
Title |
Session Chair |
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09:00-09:40 |
Alberto Nicolis |
Solid inflation |
Richard Holman |
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09:40-10:20 |
Mark Wyman |
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10:20-10:40 |
Justin Khoury |
The Ward identities of single field inflation |
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10:40-11:00 |
Coffee break |
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11:00-11:40 |
Sarah Shandera |
Richard Holman |
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11:40-12:20 |
Will Kinney |
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12:20-14:00 |
Lunch break |
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14:00-14:20 |
Nishant Agarwal |
Non-Gaussianity from general inflationary states |
Sarah Shandera |
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14:20-14:40 |
Azadeh Moradinezhad Dizgah |
General conditions for scale-invariant pertubations in an expanding universe |
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14:40-15:00 |
Adrienne Erickcek |
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15:00-15:20 |
Elliot Nelson |
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15:20-15:40 |
Suddhasattwa Brahma |
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15:40-16:00 |
Coffee break |
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16:00-16:20 |
Michael Wood-Vasey |
Rachel Bean |
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16:20-16:40 |
Christopher Hirata |
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16:40-17:00 |
Christian Reichardt |
Unraveling dark energy and inflation with the South Pole Telescope |
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17:00-17:20 |
Xiaoying Xu |
Measuring D_{A} and H at z = 0.35 from the SDSS DR7 LRGs using baryon acoustic oscillations |
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18:00-19:30 |
Poster session * (with light refreshments) |
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*Poster Session
Joyce Byun - Primordial non-Gaussian shape recognition
Sayantan Choudhury - Fourth Level MSSM inflation from new flat directions
Andrew Matas - Galileon radiation from binary pulsars
Eva-Maria Mueller - Cosmological constraints on the effective field theory and cosmic acceleration
Charles Shapiro - Weak Lensing of Type la Supernovae from SDSS-III
Sunday, August 26, 2012
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Time |
Speaker |
Title |
Session Chair |
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09:00-09:40 |
Kazuya Koyama |
Andrew Tolley |
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09:40-10:20 |
Henry Tye |
A possible stringy mechanism for a small cosmological constant |
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10:20-10:40 |
Sohyun Park |
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10:40-11:00 |
Coffee break |
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11:00-11:40 |
Dragan Huterer |
Falsifying paradigms for cosmic acceleration in the systematics-dominated era |
Michael Wood-Vasey |
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11:40-12:00 |
Hao-Yi Wu |
Impact of small-scale galaxy clustering systematics on cosmological parameter constraints |
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12:00-12:20 |
Adam Mantz |
Acceleration and modified gravity constraints from X-ray galaxy clusters |
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12:20 |
Concluding remarks |
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