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July 28 — August 3, 2013 • Quy Nhon, Viet Nam


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Sunday — July 28th 2013 : Arrival

07:30 - 12:00 : Arrival of participants

12:00 - 14:00 : Lunch

14:30 - 18:30 : Registration
19:00 - 19:30 : Welcome cocktail

19:30 - 21:00 : Dinner

MondayJuly 29th 2013

09:00 - 09:20 : Welcome and Presentation of ICISE | Jean Trân Thanh VânLes Rencontres du Vietnam

CMB & Cosmology Chair : Ken GangaAPC, Paris
09:2009:50 : The Planck mission | Paolo NatoliUniversity of Ferrara (pdf)
09:50 - 10:30 The Planck products | Maude Le JeuneAPC, Paris (pdf)

10:30 - 11:00 : Coffee Break

CMB & Cosmology Chair : Ken GangaAPC, Paris (pdf)
11:00 - 11:30 : Planck constraints on primordial non-gaussianity | Michele Liguori University of Padova (pdf)
11:30 - 11:50 : First characterisation of the Planck all-sky catalogue of high-z source candidates | Ludovic MontierIRAP, Toulouse (pdf)
11:50 - 12:10 : The QUIJOTE experiment: status and first views on radiosources with the Multi-Frequency Instrument | Marcos Lopez-CaniegoInstituto de Fisica de Cantabria, Santander (pdf)

12:30 - 14:00 : Lunch

CMB & CosmologyChair : Walter GearCardiff University
14:00 - 14:30 : Cosmological parameters from Planck and other datasets | Paolo NatoliUniversity of Ferrara (pdf)
14:30 - 15:00 : Planck Lensing | Aurelien Benoît-LévyUniversity College London (pdf)
15:00 - 15:20 : The Planck Catalogue of Compact Sources | Marcos Lopez CaniegoInstituto de Fisica de Cantabria, Santander (pdf)

15:20 - 16:00 : Coffee Break

CMB & Cosmology  Chair : Walter GearCardiff University
16:00 - 16:30 : The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: recent results, ACTPol status, and future plans | Mike NiemackCornell University, Ithaka (pdf)
16:30 - 16:50 : Southern African Large Telescope observations of ACT SZ-selected clusters  | Brian KirkCentre for High Performance Computing, Cape Town (pdf)
16:50 - 17:10 : Test of cosmic isotropy: Power asymmetry  | Yabebal FantayeUniversity of Oslo (pdf)
17:10 - 17:80 : QUBIC : a Q & U bolometric interferometer for cosmology  | Marie-Anne Bigot-SazyAPC, Paris (pdf)

19:30 - 21:00 : Dinner

Tuesday — July 30th 2013

Experimental gravity and General RelativityChair : Kei-Ichi Maeda Waseda University, Tokyo
08:30 - 09:00 : Testing general relativity in the strong-field regime | Clifford WillUniversity of Florida, Gainesville (ppt)
09:00 - 09:20 : Equivalence principle and matter wave interferometry | Luc BlanchetIAP, Paris (pdf)
09:20 - 09:40 : From configuration to dynamics - Emergence of Lorentz signature in classical field theory | Shinji MukohyamaKavli IPMU and Univ of Tokyo (pdf)
09:40 - 10:00 : On negative mass in de Sitter space-time| Manu ParanjapeUniversité de Montréal (pdf)

10:00 - 10:30 : Coffee Break

General RelativityChair : Shinji MukohyamaKavli IPMU and Univ of Tokyo
10:30 - 10:50 : Energy-momentum inequalities for asymptotically anti-de Sitter spacetimes | Naqing XieFudan University Shanghai (pdf)
10:5011:10 : Point massive particle in General Relativity | Mikhail KatanaevSteklov Mathematical Institute, Moscow (pdf)
11:1011:40 : BICEP2/Kek | Hien T. NguyenJPL & Caltech, Pasadena (pdf)
11:40 - 12:00 : Group photo : meeting point in the lobby entrance of  Seagull Hotel

12:00 - 14:00 : Lunch

Alternative gravity theoriesChair : Clifford Will University of Florida, Gainesville
14:00 - 14:30 : Dynamics of bigravity and general relativity | Kei-Ichi MaedaWaseda University, Tokyo (pdf)
14:30 - 15:00 : Modified Gravity and Binary Pulsar Tests | Claudia de Rham Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland (pdf)
15:00 - 15:30 : Massive gravity and cosmology | Shinji MukohyamaKavli IPMU and Univ of Tokyo (pdf)

15:30 - 16:00 : Coffee Break

Alternative gravity theories Chair : Alain Blanchard IRAP, Toulouse
16:00 - 16:30 : The MOND phenomenology | Benoit FamaeyUniversity of Strasbourg (pdf)
16:30 - 17:00 : Bimetric MOND gravity (BIMOND) | Moti MilgromWeizmann Institute, Rehovot (pdf)
17:0017:30 : Gravitational polarization and MOND | Luc BlanchetIAP, Paris (pdf)

19:30
- 21:00 : Dinner

Wednesday — July 31st 2013

07:15 - 12:00 : Excursion

12:00
- 14:00 : Lunch

Dark Matter Chair : Yannick Giraud-HéraudAPC, Paris
14:00 - 14:30 : Search for dark matter at LHC | Naoko KanayaICEPP, University of Tokyo (pdf)
14:30 - 15:00 : PAMELA results after more than 6 years of cosmic rays investigation, and indirect dark matter searches | Francesco Cafagna INFN Sezione di Bari (pdf)
15:00 - 15:30 : AMS Results | William GillardLPSC, Grenoble (pdf)

15:30 - 16:00 : Coffee Break

Dark MatterChair : Yannick Giraud-HéraudAPC, Paris
16:00 - 16:30 : Direct Dark matter searches | Bruno SerfassUniversity of Berkeley (pdf)
16:30 - 17:00 : Constraints on Dark Matter from Compact Stars | Petr TinyakovUniversité Libre de Bruxelles (pdf)
17:00
- 17:30 : Debate on Dark Matter & MOND : (moderator) Clifford WillUniversity of Florida, Gainesville (pptx)

19:30 - 21:00 : Dinner

Thursday — August 1st 2013

Gravitational wavesChair : Luc BlanchetIAP, Paris
08:30 - 09:00 : New concepts in gravitational wave detection | David BlairUniversity of Western Australia, Perth (pdf)
09:00 - 09:30 : Current status and future prospects of gravitational wave detectors | Gabriela GonzalezLouisiana State University, Baton Rouge (pptx)
09:30 - 10:00 : Virgo the French-Italian project for detecting gravitational waves | Nary ManOCA, Nice pdf)

10:00 -
10:30 : Coffee Break

Gravitational waves & Astrophysics of compact objectsChair : Gabriela Gonzalez Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
10:30 - 11:00 : KAGRA large-scale cryogenic gravitational wave telescope  | Shinji MiyokiICRR, University of Tokyo (pdf)
11:00 - 11:20 : Gravitational waves from spinning black hole binaries | Sylvain MarsatIAP, Paris (pdf)
11:20 - 11:40 : Quantum friction in neutron stars | Brahim LamineIRAP, Toulouse (pdf)
11:40 - 12:00 : The Spherically-Symmetric Pressure Free Collapse of the White-Black Hole | VO Van OnUniversity of Thu Dau Mot (pptm)

12:00 - 14:00 : Lunch

Primordial UniverseChair : David BlairUniversity of Western Australia, Perth
14:00 - 14:50 : Inflationary models after Planck | Jérôme MartinIAP, Paris (pptx)
14:50 - 15:10 : Cosmological perturbations of a quartet of scalar fields | Seoktae KohJeju National University (pdf)
15:10 - 15:30 : Primordial spectra from sudden turning trajectory | Masahide YamaguchiTokyo Institute of Technology (pdf)

15:30 - 16:00 : Coffee Break

16:00 - 19:00 : Visit of the site of ICISE

19:30 - 23:00 : Conference Dinner

Friday — August 2nd 2013

Dark energyChair : Pierre AstierLPNHE, Paris
08:30 - 09:00 : Cosmology with type-1A Supernavæ | Marc BetouleLPNHE, Paris (pdf)
09:00 - 09:30 : The future of BAO with BOSS, eBoss and DESI | Steven BaileyLawrence Berkeley National Lab (pdf)
09:30 - 10:00 : BOSS (Lyman alpha forest) | Graziano RossiCEA, Saclay (pdf)

10:00 - 10:30 : Coffee Break

Dark energyChair : Hien T. NguyenJPL, Caltech
10:30 - 11:00 : The detail view of large-scale structures at redshift about 1 with VIPERS | Ben GranettNAF OA, Brera (pdf)
11:00 - 11:30 : Cosmology with radio surveys  | Catherine CressCentre for High Performance Computing, Cape Town (pdf)
11:30 - 12:00 : Calibration techniques fot the LSST camera | Francesca VillaLPSC, Grenoble (pdf)

12:00 - 14:00 : Lunch

Dark energyChair : Jérôme MartinIAP, Paris
14:00 - 14:30 : From the quantum vacuum to the observed cosmological constant | Alain BlanchardIRAP, Toulouse (pdf)
14:30 - 15:00 : The FLG model faced to anthropic issues | Roland TriayCPT, Marseille (pdf)
15:00 - 15:30 : Timescape cosmology: Modifying the geometry of the Universe | David WiltshireUniversity Of Canterbury, Christchurch (pdf)

15:30 - 16:00 : Coffee Break

Dark energyChair : David WiltshireUniversity Of Canterbury, Christchurch
16:00 - 16:20 : Virialisation-induced curvature vs dark energy | Jan OstrowskiNicolaus Copernicus University, Torun (pdf)
16:20 - 16:40 : Testing the Spatial Curvature of FL Models | Roland TriayCPT, Marseille (pdf)
16:40 - 17:10 : Debate on Dark Energy & the Cosmological Constant: (moderator) David Blair University of Western Australia, Perth (pptx)

19:30
- 21:00 : Dinner

Saturday — August 2nd 2013 : Departure

Summaries
09:00 - 09:40 : Summary talk on Gravitation | Luc BlanchetIAP, Paris (pdf)
09:40 - 10:20 : Summary talk on Cosmology | Alain BlanchardIRAP, Toulouse (pptx)
10:20 - 10:30 : Concluding Remarks

11:30
12:30 : Lunch
13:00 Departure for the Post-Conference Tour

Posters

  • Gravitational Waves from Binary Neutron Stars | Nguyen Quynh LanHanoi National University of Education (pdf)
  • Effects of 3-body forces and QCD on the Nuclear Equation of State for Core-Collapse Supernovae and Neutron Star Structure | Nguyen Quynh LanHanoi National University of Education (pdf)

Last updated : August 3rd 2013