GROUP PHOTO
Schedule of the conference program
| 30 May 2011 (Monday) Photos | ||
| Time | Event | Presenter |
| 9:00 - 9:15 | Registration | |
| 9:15 - 9:30 | Welcome address | Tony F Chan [President of HKUST] |
| 9:30 - 10:20 | Plenary Talk #1: "Cosmological
Challenges – The View of a String Theorist" Video |
David Gross [KITP, UC Santa Barbara] |
| 10:20-10:40 | Coffee Break | |
| 10:40-11:20 | Talk #1: "First Physics Highlights
from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC)" Video |
Peter Jenni [CERN] |
| 11:20-12:00 | Talk #2: "Electroweak Symmetry
Breaking Scenarios and Their Signals" Video |
Csaba Csaki [Cornell University] |
| 12:00-12:40 | Talk #3: "Delta N Formalism and
Curvature Perturbations on Superhorizon Scales" Video |
Misao Sasaki [Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto] |
| 12:40-14:00 | Welcome Lunch | |
| 14:00-14:40 | Talk #4: "String Cosmology: An
Update" Video |
Gary Shiu [University of Wisconsin – Madison] |
| 14:40-15:20 | Talk #5: "Some Peculiar Cosmological
Solutions of Einstein's Theory" Video |
Shamit Kachru [Stanford University] |
| 15:20-16:00 | Talk #6: "Non-Gaussianity Generated
at the End of Multi-field Inflation" Video |
Qing-Guo Huang [Institute of Theoretical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences] |
| 17:30-18:30 | Cocktail Reception | |
| 31 May 2011 (Tuesday) Photos | ||
| 9:00-9:50 | Plenary
Talk #2: "Dark Matter and Dark Energy from Topology" Video |
Hitoshi Murayama [UC Berkeley and IPMU, Tokyo] |
| 9:50-10:30 | Talk #7: "Gravitational Lenses of
the Dark Universe" Video |
Adam Amara [ETH Zürich] |
| 10:30-10:50 | Coffee Break | |
| 10:50-11:30 | Talk #8: "Relativistic Effects in
Weak Gravitational Lensing" Video |
Camille Bonvin [University of Cambridge] |
| 11:30-12:10 | Talk #9: "Recent Developments in
Observational Cosmology" Video |
Uroš Seljak [University of Zürich, UC Berkeley and Ewha University, Seoul] |
| 12:10-12:50 | Talk #10: "21cm Cosmology" Video |
Xuelei Chen [National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences] |
| 12:50-14:00 | Lunch Break | |
| 14:00-14:40 | Talk #11: "Black Holes, Big
and Small: Impact on Galaxy Formation" Video |
Luis Ho [The Observatories of the Carnegie Institution for Science ] |
| 14:40-15:20 | Talk #12: "Searching for
Remnant String Loops by Microlensing" Video |
David Chernoff [Cornell University] |
| 15:20-16:00 | Talk #13: "Astrometric Effects of a
Stochastic Gravitational Wave Background" Video |
Éanna Flanagan [Cornell University] |
| 16:00-16:20 | Coffee Break | |
| 16:20-17:00 | Talk #14: "Connection between
Thermodynamics and Gravitational Dynamics" Video |
Rong-Gen Cai [Institute of Theoretical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences] |
| 17:00-18:30 | Poster Presentations | |
| 18:30-21:00 | Banquet | |
| 1 June 2011 (Wednesday) Photos | ||
| 9:00-9:50 | Plenary
Talk #3 Video |
Alan Guth [Massachusetts Institute of Technology] |
| 9:50-10:30 | Talk #15: "What Do Galaxy Surveys
Really Measure?" Video |
Ruth Durrer [University of Geneva] |
| 10:30-10:50 | Coffee Break | |
| 10:50-11:30 | Talk #16: "The Cosmic Microwave Sky: Beyond the Power Spectrum" Video |
Paul Shellard [University of Cambridge] |
| 11:30-12:10 | Talk #17: "Testing Gravity on Cosmological Scales" Video |
Wayne Hu [University of Chicago] |
| 12:10-12:50 | Talk #18: "Bubble Collisions and
Inflationary Perturbations" Video |
Lam Hui [Columbia University] |
| 12:50-14:00 | Lunch break | |
| 14:00-14:40 | Talk #19: "Constructing a Wilsonian Cosmological Effective Action" Video |
Koenraad Schalm [Leiden University] |
| 14:40-15:20 | Talk #20: "Cosmological Inflation
and the Standard Model" Video |
Mikhail Shaposhnikov [École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne] |
| 15:20-15:40 | Coffee Break | |
| 15:40-16:20 | Talk #21: "Einstein's ‘Zurich
Notebook’ and his Journey to General Relativity" Video |
Norbert Straumann [University of Zürich] |
| 16:20-16:40 | Closing Remarks | Henry Tye [HKUST] |
