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Workshop on Cosmology and Strings | (smr 1851)
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  • Monday, 9 July 2007
    • 08:15 - 09:30 Registration and Administrate Formalities
      Location: Main Building, Lobby
      • 08:15 Registration and Administrate Formalities 1h15'
    • 09:30 - 10:00 Introduction by the Director of the ICTP , Prof. K. R. Sreenivasan
      • 09:30 Introduction by the Director of the ICTP , Prof. K. R. Sreenivasan 30'
    • 10:00 - 10:45 LISA and Cosmology
      • 10:00 LISA and Cosmology 45'
        Speaker: P. Binetruy (Universite Paris 7, Denis Diderot, Paris, France)
    • 10:45 - 11:30 Coffee Break
      Location: Main Building Terrace
      • 10:45 Coffee Break 45'
    • 11:30 - 12:15 Lambda in the Landscape
      • 11:30 Lambda in the Landscape 45'
        Speaker: R. Bousso (University of California at Berkeley, USA)
    • 12:15 - 12:45 A Measure of de Sitter entropy and eternal inflation
      • 12:15 A Measure of de Sitter entropy and eternal inflation 30'
        Speaker: A. Nicolis (Harvard University, Cambridge, USA)
    • 12:30 - 14:30 Lunch
      Location: Main Building Cafeteria
      • 12:30 Lunch 2h0'
    • 14:30 - 15:00 Efficient Tunneling in the Landscape
      • 14:30 Efficient Tunneling in the Landscape 30'
        Speaker: S. Sarangi (Columbia University, New York, USA)
    • 15:00 - 15:30 A cosmological singularity in AdS/CFT
      • 15:00 A cosmological singularity in AdS/CFT 30'
        Speaker: B. Craps (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium)
    • 15:30 - 16:00 Coffee Break
      Location: Main Building, Lobby
      • 15:30 Coffee Break 30'
    • 16:00 - 16:30 Cosmologies with null Big-Bang singularities and their gauge theory duals
      • 16:00 Cosmologies with null Big-Bang singularities and their gauge theory duals 30'
        Speaker: K. Narayan (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, India)
    • 16:30 - 17:00 Astrophysics and Cosmology of Large Volume String Compactifications
      • 16:30 Astrophysics and Cosmology of Large Volume String Compactifications 30'
        Speaker: J. Conlon (University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK)
  • Tuesday, 10 July 2007
    • 09:30 - 10:15 Blach Holes and Hierarchy
      • 09:30 Blach Holes and Hierarchy 45'
        Speaker: G. Dvali (New York University, New York, USA)
    • 10:15 - 10:45 Charting the Landscape of Modified Gravity
      • 10:15 Charting the Landscape of Modified Gravity 30'
        Speaker: N. Kaloper (University of California at Davis, USA)
    • 10:45 - 11:30 Coffee Break
      Location: Main Building Terrace
      • 10:45 Coffee Break 45'
    • 11:30 - 12:15 Some speculations on inflation
      • 11:30 Some speculations on inflation 45'
        Speaker: P. Steinhardt (Princeton University, Princeton, USA)
    • 12:15 - 12:45 New Ekpyrotic Cosmology
      • 12:15 New Ekpyrotic Cosmology 30'
        Speaker: B. Ovrut (University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA)
    • 12:45 - 14:30 Lunch
      Location: Main Building Cafeteria
      • 12:45 Lunch 1h45'
    • 14:30 - 15:00 Phenomenology of New Ekpyrotic Cosmology
      • 14:30 Phenomenology of New Ekpyrotic Cosmology 30'
        Speaker: J. Khoury (Perimeter Inst. for Theoretical Physics, Ontario, Canada)
    • 15:00 - 15:30 Primordial perturbations in the new ekpyrotic model
      • 15:00 Primordial perturbations in the new ekpyrotic model 30'
        Speaker: D. Wands (University of Portsmouth, Portsmouth, UK)
    • 15:30 - 16:00 Tachyon condensation, string gases and structure formation
      • 15:30 Tachyon condensation, string gases and structure formation 30'
        Speaker: R. Brandenberger (McGill University, Montreal, Canada)
    • 16:00 - 16:30 Coffee Break
      Location: Main Building, Lobby
      • 16:00 Coffee Break 30'
  • Wednesday, 11 July 2007
    • 09:30 - 10:15 Gaussianity, Flatness, Tilt, Running, and Gravity Waves: WMAP and Some Future Prospects
      • 09:30 Gaussianity, Flatness, Tilt, Running, and Gravity Waves: WMAP and Some Future Prospects 45'
        Speaker: E. Komatsu (University of Texas at Austin, USA)
    • 10:15 - 11:00 Inflation and Stringy Landscape
      • 10:15 Inflation and Stringy Landscape 45'
        Speaker: A. Linde (Stanford University, Stanford, USA)
    • 11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break
      Location: Main Building Terrace
      • 11:00 Coffee Break 30'
    • 11:30 - 12:00 Testing String Theory with CMB
      • 11:30 Testing String Theory with CMB 30'
        Speaker: R. Kallosh (Stanford University, Stanford, USA)
    • 12:00 - 12:45 Stringy signatures in Brane Inflation
      • 12:00 Stringy signatures in Brane Inflation 45'
        Speaker: H. Tye (Cornell University, Ithaca, USA)
    • 12:45 - 14:15 Lunch
      Location: Main Building Cafeteria
      • 12:45 Lunch 1h30'
    • 14:15 - 14:45 Probing Warped Geometries from Precision Cosmology and the LHC
      • 14:15 Probing Warped Geometries from Precision Cosmology and the LHC 30'
        Speaker: G. Shiu (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA)
    • 14:45 - 15:30 A Reasonably Explicit Model of D-brane Inflation
      • 14:45 A Reasonably Explicit Model of D-brane Inflation 45'
        Speaker: L. McAllister (Princeton University, Princeton, USA)
    • 15:30 - 16:00 Coffee Break
      Location: Main Building, Lobby
      • 15:30 Coffee Break 30'
    • 16:00 - 16:30 Non-Gaussianities in extended D-term inflation
      • 16:00 Non-Gaussianities in extended D-term inflation 30'
        Speaker: F. Bernardeu (CEA/DSM/SPhT/Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette cedex, France)
    • 16:30 - 17:00 Making and Probing Inflation
      • 16:30 Making and Probing Inflation 30'
        Speaker: L. Kofman (CITA, University of Toronto, Canada)
    • 18:30 - 18:30 RECEPTION
      Location: Adriatico Guest House (Terrace)
      • 18:30 RECEPTION
  • Thursday, 12 July 2007
    • 10:15 - 10:45 Spinflation
      • 10:15 Spinflation 30'
        Speaker: R. Gregory (University of Durham, Durham, UK)
    • 10:45 - 11:30 Coffee Break
      Location: Main Building Terrace
      • 10:45 Coffee Break 45'
    • 11:30 - 12:00 The fate of SUSY flat directions and their role in reheating
      • 11:30 The fate of SUSY flat directions and their role in reheating 30'
        Speaker: M. Peloso (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA)
    • 12:00 - 12:45 Cosmic (super)strings: Gravitational wave bursts, stochastic background, and experimental constraints
      • 12:00 Cosmic (super)strings: Gravitational wave bursts, stochastic background, and experimental constraints 45'
        Speaker: X. Siemens (California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA)
    • 12:45 - 14:15 Lunch
      Location: Main Building Cafeteria
      • 12:45 Lunch 1h30'
    • 14:15 - 15:00 Strings with junctions
      • 14:15 Strings with junctions 45'
        Speaker: E. Copeland (University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK)
    • 15:00 - 15:30 B-mode from strings
      • 15:00 B-mode from strings 30'
        Speaker: L. Pogosian (Siman Fraser University, Burnaby, Canada)
    • 15:30 - 16:00 Coffee Break
      Location: Main Building Cafeteria
      • 15:30 Coffee Break 30'
    • 16:00 - 16:30 Detecting cosmic superstrings
      • 16:00 Detecting cosmic superstrings 30'
        Speaker: M. Jackson (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, USA)
    • 16:30 - 17:00 (p,q) cosmic strings and brane inflation
      • 16:30 (p,q) cosmic strings and brane inflation 30'
        Speaker: H. Firouzjahi (McGill University, Montreal, Canada)
  • Friday, 13 July 2007
    • 09:30 - 10:15 Cosmic Microwave Background: scientific expectations from Planck and the future CMB probes
      • 09:30 Cosmic Microwave Background: scientific expectations from Planck and the future CMB probes 45'
        Speaker: C. Baccigalupi (S.I.S.S.A.. Trieste, Italy)
    • 10:15 - 10:45 Quantum fluctuations may give a small cosmological constant and also inflation without an inflaton
      • 10:15 Quantum fluctuations may give a small cosmological constant and also inflation without an inflaton 30'
        Speaker: G. Kane (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA)
    • 10:45 - 11:30 Coffee Break
      Location: Main Building Terrace
      • 10:45 Coffee Break 45'
    • 11:30 - 12:00 Cosmology with pseudo Nambu-Goldstone bosons
      • 11:30 Cosmology with pseudo Nambu-Goldstone bosons 30'
        Speaker: L. Sorbo (University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA)
    • 12:00 - 12:45 Overview of Large Scale Structure
      • 12:00 Overview of Large Scale Structure 45'
        Speaker: U. Seljak (ICTP, Trieste)