Hot topics in Modern Cosmology
Spontaneous Workshop IX
 
27 April - 2 May 2015 Cargčse


Program
  Sunday 26 April 2015 : ARRIVAL
  • 19:00 Information on lodging at the front desk of the Institute
Monday 27 April 2015
  • 8:50 Opening
  • 09:00 Dark matter and generation of galactic magnetic fields : pdf (160 Kb)
    Zurab Berezhiani, Universitą degli studi dell'Aquila & LNGS (L'Aquila, ITA)
  • 10:00 coffee break
  • 10:30 Interface of Cosmology and Magnetic fields with high energy cosmic rays: News from the Pierre Auger Experiment : pdf (17.7 Mb)
    — Guenter Sigl, University of Hamburg (Hamburg, DEU)
  • 11:30 Dark Matter and IceCube neutrino events : pdf (3.7 Mb)
    — Riccardo Biondi, Universitą degli studi dell'Aquila & LNGS (L'
    Aquila, ITA)
  • 12:30 lunch
  • 14:00 Wormholes in ghost-free bigravity theory : pdf (681 Kb)
    — Mikhail Volkov, University of Tours (Tours, FRA)
  • 15:00 (Multi-)Galileon Dualities : pdf (2.2 Mb)
    — Johannes Noller, University of Oxford (Oxford, GBR)
  • 16:00 coffee break
  • 16:30 DISCUSSION
  • 19:00 Welcome party
Tuesday 28 April 2015
  • 09:00 Details of inflation from recent CMB data : pdf (1 Mb)
    — Alexei Starobinsky, Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics RAS (Moscow, RUS)
  • 10:00 coffee break
  • 10:30 Dynamical features of scalar-torsion theories : pdf1 (3.7 Mb), pdf2 (4.6 Mb)
    — Alexey Toporensky, Sternberg Astronomical Institute (Moscow, RUS)
  • 11:30 Spectral distortions in the cosmic microwave background polarization : pdf (14.2Mb)
    — Sebastien Renaux, IAP (Paris, FRA)
  • 12:30 lunch
  • 14:00 Gravity Modification : pdf (294 Kb)
    — Luigi Pilo, University of L'Aquila (L'Aquila, ITA)
  • 15:00 Massive gravity Potentials : pdf (390 MKb)
    — Denis Comelli, INFN (Ferrara, ITA)
  • 16:00 coffee break
  • 16:30 New Fate of a Warped 5D FRW Model with a U(1) Scalar Gauge Field : pdf (6.7 Mb)
    — Reinoud Slagter, Asfyon & Amsterdam University (Amsterdam, NLD)
  • 17:30 DISCUSSION
Wednesday 29 April 2015
  • 09:00 Extended Geometric Scalar Gravity : pdf (708 Kb) : blackboard
    — Mario Novello, ICRA/CBPF (Rio de Janeiro, BRA)
  • 10:00 coffee break
  • 10:30 The cosmological constant problem and its sequester : pdf (6.8 Mb)
    — Antonio Padilla, University of Nottingham (Nottingham, GBR)
  • 11:30 Geometric Spin-2 Fields: Dark Sector and Bouncing Cosmology : pdf (631 Kb)
    — Vicente Antunes,
    Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Fısicas (CBPF) — Rio de Janeiro (BRA)
  • 12:15 group photo
  • 12:30 lunch
  • 14:00 - 19:30 Excursion
Thursday 30 April 2015
  • 09:00 Relations between matter properties and geometrical structures in classical and quantum cosmology : pdf (549 Kb)
    Alexander Kamenshchik, University of Bologna (Bologna, ITA)
  • 10:00 coffee break
  • 10:30 Status of Hořava gravity : pdf (1.4 Mb) : blackboard
    — Daniele Vernieri, IAP (Paris, FRA)
  • 11:30 De Sitter QFT (Recent results)
    — Ugo Moschella, Univ. dell'Insubria — Como (ITA)
  • 12:30 lunch
  • 14:00 The End and Other Tall Tales : pdf (1.4 Mb) : blackboard
    — Nemanja Kaloper, University of California (Davis, USA)
  • 15:00 Singular unverses against observations : pdf (6.1 Mb)
    — Tomasz Denkiewicz, Szczecin University (Szczecin, POL)
  • 16:00 coffee break
  • 16:30 Varying Constants Entropic Force Universes : pdf (192 Kb)
    — Hussain Gohar, University of Szczecin (Szczecin, POL)
  • 17:30 DISCUSSION
  • 19:30 banquet
Friday 1 May 2015
  • 09:00 Propagation peculiarities of mean field massive gravity : pdf (322 Kb)
    — George Zahariade, University of California Davis (Davis, USA)
  • 10:00 coffee break
  • 10:30 Testing dark energy and modified gravity models with EFTCAMB/EFTCosmoMC : pdf (3.1 Mb)
    — Noemi Frusciante IAP and UPMC (Paris, FRA)
  • 11:30 Covariant constraints in Massive gravity : pdf (604 Kb)
    — Mikael von Strauss, UPMC/IAP (Paris, FRA)
  • 12:30 lunch
  • 14:00 DISCUSSION
  • 15:00 coffee break
  • 15:30 DISCUSSION
Saturday 2 May 2015 : DEPARTURE
  • 07:45 Departure at IESC — Conference Bus to Ajaccio Airport

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