Hot topics in Modern Cosmology
Spontaneous Workshop VI
7 - 12 May 2012 Cargèse

Program
  Sunday 6 May 2012 : ARRIVAL
  • 19:00 Information on lodging at the front desk of the Institute
Monday 7 May 2012
  • 09:15 Opening
  • 09:30 Recent progress in f(R) gravity and cosmology — Alexei Starobinsky, Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics : pdf (554 Ko)
  • 10:30 coffee break
  • 11:00 R2-inflation vs Higgs inflation: crucial tests in particle physics and cosmology — Dmitry Gorbunov, Institute for Nuclear Research of RAS : pdf (3.7 Mo)
  • 12:30 lunch
  • 14:00 Radiation-Dominated epoch in R2 gravity — Lorenzo Reverberi, Università degli Studi di Ferrara : pdf (995 Ko)
  • 15:00 Particle production in R2 gravity — Elena Arbuzova, Dubna University : pdf (154 Ko)
  • 16:00 coffee break
  • 16:30 Empty Universe Model — Andrei Arbuzov, Joint Institute for Nuclear Research : pdf (202 Ko)
  • 17:30 DISCUSSION
  • 19:15 Welcome party
Tuesday 8 May 2012
  • 09:30 Accelerating Universe in Effective String Theory — Kei-ichi Maeda, Waseda University : pdf (1.7 Mo)
  • 10:30 coffee break
  • 11:00 Palatini versus standard cosmological model — Andrzej Borowiec, Wroclaw University : pdf (1.1 Mo)
  • 12:30 lunch
  • 14:00 More about the infrared structure of the de Sitter Universe: Tachyons  — Ugo Moschella,  Univ. dell’Insubria : pdf (6.4 Mo)
  • 15:00 Laboratory searches for time variation of fundamental constants — Savely Karshenboim, Max-Planck-Institut fuer Quantenoptik & Pulkovo observatory : ppt (2.7 Mo)
  • 16:00 coffee break
  • 16:30 DISCUSSION
Wednesday 9 May 2012
  • 09:30 Constraints on Dark Matter from neutron stars — Petr Tinyakov, Univ. Libre de Bruxelles : pdf (1.1 Mo)
  • 10:30 coffee break
  • 11:00 Primordial Non-Gaussianity and Non-linear Formalisms — Yuki Watanabe, Ludwig Maximilian Univ. of Munich : pdf (3.7 Mo)
  • 12:30 lunch
  • 17:00 - 19:30 Boat trip (Departure at Cargese harbor)
Thursday 10 May 2012
  • 09:30 Some new aspects of massive gravity — Cédric Deffayet, APC : pdf (1.1 Mo)
  • 10:30 coffee break
  • 11:00 Recent Developements in Massive Gravity — Luigi Pilo, University of L'Aquila : pdf (568 Ko)
  • 12:00 Group photo
  • 12:30 lunch
  • 14:00 Cosmology in Massive Gravity — Claudia de Rham, Case Western Reserve University : pdf (4.2 Mo)
  • 15:00 Theoretical bounds on Massive Gravities — Matteo Fasiello, Case Western Reserve University : pdf (4.2 Mo)
  • 16:00 coffee break
  • 16:30 Connections between theories of Massive Gravity — Andrew Tolley, Case Western Reserve University : pdf (11.8 Mo)
  • 17:30 DISCUSSION
  • 19:30 Banquet
Friday 11 May 2012
  • 09:30 Superconductivity of vacuum induced by strong magnetic field — Maxim Chernodub, Université François-Rabelais : pdf (5.5 Mo)
  • 10:30 coffee break
  • 11:00 Effects of helical magnetic fields on the CMB — Kerstin Kunze, University of Salamanca : pdf (8 Mo)
  • 12:30 lunch
  • 14:00 Neutron oscillations to para-world: earlier end to the cosmic ray spectrum? — Zurab Berezhiani, Univetsity of L'Aquila : pdf (6.3 Mo)
  • 15:00 Search for matter-antimatter transformation with cold neutrons — Yuri Kamyshkov, University of Tennessee : pdf (2.2 Mo)
  • 16:00 coffee break
  • 16:30 DISCUSSION
Saturday 12 May 2012 : DEPARTURE
  • 08:45 Departure at IESC — Conference Bus to Ajaccio Airport

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