Hot topics in Modern Cosmology
Spontaneous Workshop VII
 
6 - 11 May 2013 Cargèse

Program
  Sunday 5 May 2013 : ARRIVAL
  • 19:00 Information on lodging at the front desk of the Institute
Monday 6 May 2013
  • 08:50 Opening
  • 09:00 High energy gravitons. Their sources and detection Alexander Dolgov, University of Ferrara and ITEP (Moscow, RUS) : pdf (344 Kb)
  • 10:00 coffee break
  • 10:30 Geometric Scalar Gravity — Mario Novello, CBPF & ICRA, Rio de Janeiro (BRA) : pdf (148 Kb)
  • 11:30 Minkowski functionals of the SDSS luminous red galaxies — Alexander Wiegand, Max Planck Institut fuer Gravitationsphysik (Golm, DEU) : pdf (9.1 Mb)
  • 12:30 lunch
  • 14:00 LISA-2020. An Intermediate Scale Space Gravitational Wave Observatory for This Decade — Sasha Buchman, Stanford University (Stanford, USA) : pdf (7.3 Mb)
  • 15:00 From Brans-Dicke gravity to geometrical scalar-tensor theory — Carlos Romero, Universidade Federal da ParaÌba (Joao Pessoa, BRA) : pdf (204 Kb)
  • 16:00 coffee break
  • 16:30 Introdution to spherical symmetric solutions on geometric scalar theory of gravity — Josephine Rua, ICRA — Rio de Janeiro (BRA) : pdf (420 Kb)
  • 17:30 DISCUSSION
  • 19:15 Welcome party
Tuesday 7 May 2013
  • 09:00 Inflation after the Planck and other recent observational data — Alexei Starobinsky, Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics (Moscow, RUS)  pdf (280 Kb)
  • 10:00 coffee break
  • 10:30 Inflationary models and scale invariance — Dmitry Gorbunov, Institute for Nuclear Research of RAS (Moscow, RUS)  pdf (1 Mb)
  • 11:30 Stochastic Formalism Revisited and Stochastic Effects in Hybrid Inflation — Laurence Levasseur, DAMTP (Cambridge, GRB) pdf (9 Mb)
  • 12:30 lunch
  • 14:00 Testing conformal rolling scenario with the statistical anisotropy of CMB — Grigory Rubtsov, Institute for Nuclear Research of RAS (Moscow, RUS) pdf (4.9 Mb)
  • 15:00 Particle production in modified gravity at structure formation epoch — Elena Arbuzova, Dubna University (Dubna, RUS) pdf (360 Kb)
  • 16:00 coffee break
  • 16:30 Curvature singularities in f(R) gravity — Lorenzo Reverberi, Università degli Studi di Ferrara (Ferrara, ITA) pdf (800 Kb)
  • 17:30 DISCUSSION
Wednesday 8 May 2013
  • 09:00 Present status of the "proton radius puzzle" — Savely Karshenboim, Max-Planck-Institut fuer Quantenoptik & Pulkovo Observatory (Garching, DEU) pdf (3.8 Mb)
  • 10:00 coffee break
  • 10:30 An Alternative Concordance with Apparent Acceleration due to Causal Backreaction — Brett Bochner, Hofstra University (Hempstead, USA) pdf (1.8 Mb)
  • 11:30 A Topological Extension of GR : black holes induce dark energy — Marco Spaans, Kapteyn Astronomical Institute (Groningen, NLD) pdf (816 Kb)
  • 12:30 lunch
  • 17:00 - 19:30 Excursion
Thursday 9 May 2013
  • 09:00 Lorentz Invariant Breaking of CPT — Victor Novikov, ITEP (Moscow, RUS) pdf (404 Kb)
  • 10:00 coffee break
  • 10:30 A new look on massive gravity using vielbeins — Cedric Deffayet, APC (Paris, FRA)
  • 11:30 Healthy five Degrees of Freedom Massive Gravities — Denis Comelli, INFN (Ferrara, ITA) pdf (392 Kb)
  • 12:30 lunch + Group photo
  • 14:00 Quantum Corrections in Massive Gravity — Claudia de Rham, CWRU (Cleveland Ohio, USA) pdf (6.5 Mb)
  • 15:00 Supersymmetric Massive Gravity — Andrew Tolley, CWRU (Cleveland Ohio, USA)
  • 16:00 coffee break
  • 16:30 Self-accelerating cosmologies and hairy black holes in ghost-free bigravity and massive gravity — Mikhail Volkov, LMPT (Tours, FRA) pdf (872 Kb)
  • 17:30 Einstein Cartan and cosmology — Thomas Schucker, Centre de Physique Théorique (Marseille, FRA) pdf (3.5 Kb)
  • 18:30 DISCUSSION
  • 19:30 Banquet
Friday 10 May 2013
  • 09:00 Strings on dS and AdS— Ugo Moschella, Universita dell'Insubria (Como, ITA) pdf (4.5 Mb)
  • 10:00 coffee break
  • 10:30 String melting in a photon bath — Johanna Karouby, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, USA) pdf (1.3 Mb)
  • 11:30  Spontaneous breaking of conformal symmetry in the Standard Model and Cosmology — Andrej Arbuzov, Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (Dubna, RUS) pdf (724 Kb)
  • 12:30 lunch
  • 14:00 DISCUSSION
  • 16:00 coffee break
  • 17:30 DISCUSSION
Saturday 11 May 2013 : DEPARTURE
  • 08:45 Departure at IESC — Conference Bus to Ajaccio Airport

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