Conference on Cosmology since Einstein
Program Materials
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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"
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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)"
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Peter Jenni [CERN]
11:20-12:00 Talk #2: "Electroweak Symmetry Breaking Scenarios and Their Signals"
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Csaba Csaki [Cornell University]
12:00-12:40 Talk #3: "Delta N Formalism and Curvature Perturbations on Superhorizon Scales"
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Misao Sasaki [Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto]
12:40-14:00 Welcome Lunch  
14:00-14:40 Talk #4: "String Cosmology: An Update"
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Gary Shiu [University of Wisconsin – Madison]
14:40-15:20 Talk #5: "Some Peculiar Cosmological Solutions of Einstein's Theory"
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Shamit Kachru [Stanford University]
15:20-16:00 Talk #6: "Non-Gaussianity Generated at the End of Multi-field Inflation"
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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"
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Hitoshi Murayama [UC Berkeley and IPMU, Tokyo]
9:50-10:30 Talk #7: "Gravitational Lenses of the Dark Universe"
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Adam Amara [ETH Zürich]
10:30-10:50 Coffee Break  
10:50-11:30 Talk #8: "Relativistic Effects in Weak Gravitational Lensing"
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Camille Bonvin [University of Cambridge]
11:30-12:10 Talk #9: "Recent Developments in Observational Cosmology"
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Uroš Seljak [University of Zürich, UC Berkeley and Ewha University, Seoul]
12:10-12:50 Talk #10: "21cm Cosmology"
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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"
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Luis Ho [The Observatories of the Carnegie Institution for Science ]
14:40-15:20 Talk #12: "Searching for Remnant String Loops by Microlensing"
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David Chernoff [Cornell University]
15:20-16:00 Talk #13: "Astrometric Effects of a Stochastic Gravitational Wave Background"
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Éanna Flanagan [Cornell University]
16:00-16:20 Coffee Break  
16:20-17:00 Talk #14: "Connection between Thermodynamics and Gravitational Dynamics"
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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
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Alan Guth [Massachusetts Institute of Technology]
9:50-10:30 Talk #15: "What Do Galaxy Surveys Really Measure?"
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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"
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Paul Shellard [University of Cambridge]
11:30-12:10 Talk #17: "Testing Gravity on Cosmological Scales"
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Wayne Hu [University of Chicago]
12:10-12:50 Talk #18: "Bubble Collisions and Inflationary Perturbations"
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Lam Hui [Columbia University]
12:50-14:00 Lunch break  
14:00-14:40 Talk #19: "Constructing a Wilsonian Cosmological Effective Action"
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Koenraad Schalm [Leiden University]
14:40-15:20 Talk #20: "Cosmological Inflation and the Standard Model"
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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"
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Norbert Straumann [University of Zürich]
16:20-16:40 Closing Remarks Henry Tye [HKUST]