Hot topics in Modern Cosmology
Spontaneous Workshop IV
10 - 15 May 2010 Cargèse

Program
Monday 10 May
  • 09:00 Registration
  • 12:30 lunch
  • 15:00 Opening
  • 15:10 "Something New in the High Energy Limit of Spontaneously Broken Gauge Theories" -- Denis Comelli (INFN Ferrara) : pdf (292 Ko)
  • 15:50 "Phantom crossing and anomalous growth of density fluctuations in f(R) gravity" -- Jun’ichi Yokoyama (University of Tokyo) : pdf (1.8 Mo)
  • 16:30 coffee break
  • 16:50 "Hamiltonian formulation of f(Riemann) theories of gravity" Yuuiti Sendouda -- (APC, Université Paris VII) : pdf (4.3 Mo)
  • 17:30 DISCUSSION
Tuesday 11 May
  • 09:30 "Quantum gravity, black holes, and the renormalisation group" -- Daniel Litim (University of Sussex) : pdf (2.6 Mo)
  • 10:20 coffee break
  • 10:40 "Scalar tachyons on the de Sitter Universe" -- Ugo Moschella (Università dell’Insubria) : pdf (0 Ko)
  • 11:20 "Collapse of small scale density perturbations during preheating in single field inflation" -- Jérôme Martin (IAP Paris) : ppt (2.2 Mo)
  • 12:00 lunch
  • 15:10 "Conformally flat spacetimes and Weyl frames" -- Carlos Romero (Universidade Federal da Paraiba) : ppt (932 Ko)
  • 15:50 "Some aspects of Weyl gravity and cosmology in lower dimensions" -- Joel Fonseca (Universidade Federal da Paraiba) : pdf (324 Ko)
  • 16:30 coffee break
  • 16:50 DISCUSSION
  • 18:20 Welcome party
Wednesday 12 May
  • 09:30 "Massive gravity" -- Arkady Vainshtein (University of Minnesota) : pdf (22.1 Mo)
  • 10:20 coffee break
  • 10:40 "Recent developements in massive gravity" -- Luigi Pilo (Univsersity of L’Aquila) : pdf (1.8 Mo)
  • 11:20 "Black holes, holography and thermodynamics of gauge theories" -- Nikolaos Tetradis (University of Athens) : pdf (448 Ko)
  • 12:00 lunch
  • 15:10 "Non relativistic Quantum Gravity" -- Diego Blas (EPFL Lausanne) : pdf (572 Ko)
  • 15:50 "Stueckelberg formalism and phenomenology of non-relativistic gravity" -- Sergey Sibiryakov (EPFL Meyrin) : pdf (3.6 Mo)
  • 16:30 coffee break
  • 17:20 DISCUSSION
  • 20:00 Banquet
Thursday 13 May
  • 09:30 "DAMA/LIBRA" -- Pierluigi Belli (INFN Roma Tor Vergata) : pdf (4.8 Mo)
  • 10:20 coffee break
  • 10:40 "Upgrade and perspectives of DAMA/LIBRA" -- Riccardo Cerulli (INFN-LNGS) : pdf (3.5 Mo)
  • 11:20 "MSSM after PAMELA and Fermi/LAT" -- Borut Bajc (Jozef Stefan Institute) : pdf (300 Ko)
  • 12:00 lunch
  • 15:10 "Dark Energy, Large Scale Magnetic Field and QCD" -- Ariel Zhitnitsky (University of British Columbia) : pdf (3.7 Mo)
  • 15:50 "Looking glass house: Dark matter, dark gravity" -- Zurab Berezhiani (Univ. L’Aquila and LNGS) : pdf (1.7 Mo)
  • 16:30 coffee break
  • 16:50 "Informal discussion on Dark Energy" -- Roland Triay (CPT - Université de Provence) : pdf (0 Ko)
  • 17:30 DISCUSSION
Friday 14 May
  • 09:00 Excursion

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