Hot topics in Modern Cosmology
Spontaneous Workshop VIII
12 - 17 May 2014 Cargèse

Program
  Sunday 11 May 2014 : ARRIVAL
  • 19:00 Information on lodging at the front desk of the Institute
Monday 12 May 2014
  • 08:50 Opening
  • 09:00 Gravitational waves and the spectral tilt of scalar perturbations from inflation
    — Alexei
    Starobinsky, Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics (Moscow,
    RUS) : pdf (940 Kb)
  • 10:00 coffee break
  • 10:30 More about strings and de Sitter
    — Ugo
    Moschella, University of Insubria (Como,
    ITA) : pdf (4.3 Mb)
  • 11:30 Holographic inflation and the conservation of the curvature perturbation 
    — Yuko Urakawa, Institute for Advanced Research (
    Nagoya, JPN) : pdf (11.4 Mb)
  • 12:30 lunch
  • 14:00 An exactly solvable inflationary model
    — Salvatore Mignemi, Università di Cagliari (Cagliari, ITA) : pdf (84 Kb)
  • 15:00 Local Observables in a Landscape of Infrared Gauge Modes 
    — Federico Urban, Université Libre de Bruxelles (
    Bruxelles, BEL) : pdf (1.6 Mb)
  • 15:30 The quantum-to-classical transition of cosmological perturbations
    — Grasiele Santos Università Roma "la Sapienza" (
    Roma, ITA) : pdf (168 Kb)
  • 16:00 coffee break
  • 16:30 DISCUSSION
  • 19:15 Welcome party
Tuesday 13 May 2014
  • 09:00 Cosmology with non-minimal derivative coupling 
    — Sergey Sushkov, Kazan Federal Universit (
    Kazan, RUS) : pdf (11.2 Mb)
  • 10:00 coffee break
  • 10:30 Non-minimal field theory and its applications
    —  Alexander
    Balakin, Kazan Federal University (Kazan, RUS)
    : pdf (10.5 Mb)
  • 11:30 Gravitational Repulsion in Modified Gravity
    —  Elena
    Arbuzova, Dubna University (Dubna, RUS)
    : pdf (336 Kb)
  • 12:30 lunch
  • 14:00 The efficiency of CP-violating α2-dynamos from primordial cosmic axion oscillation with torsion
    —  Luiz
    Andrade, UERJ (Rio de Janeiro,
    BRA) : pdf (60 Kb)
  • 15:00 Generalised Multiple scalar tensor theories
    — Vishagan
    Sivanesan, IAP (Paris,
    FRA) : pdf (... Kb) : blackboard
  • 15:30 coffee break
  • 16:00 DISCUSSION
Wednesday 14 May 2014
  • 09:00 Cosmological bound on particle-antiparticle mass difference
    — Victor
    Novikov,
    Institute for Nuclear Research (Moscow, RUS) : pdf (... Kb) : blackboard
  • 10:00 coffee break
  • 10:30 Solar wind test of the de Broglie-Proca's massive photon with Cluster multi-spacecraft data
    — Alessandro Spallicci, LPC2E (Orléans, FRA) : pdf (1.2 Mb)
  • 11:30 Gravitational microlensing as a tool for dark matter hunt
    — Elena
    Fedorova, Liege University (
    Liege, BEL) : pdf (1.4 Mb)
  • 12:00 lunch
  • 14:00 - 19:30 Excursion
Thursday 15 May 2014
  • 09:00 Energy in massive gravity theory
    — Mikhail Volkov, University of Tours (Tours, FRA) : pdf (532 Kb)
  • 10:00 coffee break
  • 10:30 Some issues about vierbein massive gravity
    — Cedric
    Deffayet, IAP (Paris,
    FRA) : pdf (... Kb) : blackboard
  • 11:30 On the massive gravity limit of bimetric theory
    — Mikael von Strauss, IAP/UPMC (Paris, FRA) : pdf (... Kb) : blackboard
  • 12:00 Group photo
  • 12:30 lunch
  • 14:00 Two-point functions for the Maxwell field in Robertson-Walker spacetimes
    — Eric Huguet, Université Paris Diderot-Paris 7 (Paris, FRA) : pdf (788 Kb)
  • 15:00 Excitation of black holes in massive gravity
    — Mohamed
    Ouldelhadj, Université de Corse
    (Corte, FRA) : pdf (5.7 Mb)
  • 15:30 A Quantization of the Conformally Covariant Symmetric Traceless Field over Conformally Flat Einstein Spacetimes
    — Julien Queva, Laboratoire SPE (Corte, FRA) : pdf (356 Kb)
  • 16:00 coffee break
  • 16:30 DISCUSSION
  • 19:30 Banquet
Friday 16 May 2014
  • 09:00 Geometric scalar gravity
    — Mario
    Novello, CBPF & ICRA
    (Rio de Janeiro, BRA) : pdf (... Kb) : blackboard
  • 10:00 coffee break
  • 10:30 Static spherically symmetric solutions on geometric scalar theory of gravity
    —  Josephine Rua
    ICRA (Rio de Janeiro,
    BRA) : pdf (480 Kb)
  • 11:00 Dynamical Bridges
    —  Eduardo
    Bittencourt,
    Università la Sapienza (Roma, ITA) : pdf (288 Kb)
  • 11:30  Renormalized effective action and approximated stress-energy tensor
    —  Andrei
    Belokogne,
    Université de Corse (Corte, FRA) : pdf (548 Kb)
  • 12:00 lunch
  • 14:00 Sequestering the Standard Model Vacuum Energy
    — Nemanja Kaloper, UC Davis (
    Davis, USA) : pdf (... Kb) : blackboard
  • 15:00 DISCUSSION
Saturday 17 May 2014 : DEPARTURE
  • 07:45 Departure at IESC — Conference Bus to Ajaccio Airport

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