IAS Workshop on New Perspectives on Cosmology

Program Schedule

19 May | 20 May | 21 May | 22 May | 23 May

Updated on 29 May 2014

19 May 2014 (Mon) - Gravity and Cosmology

Time	Event	Speaker
Chair	Gary Shiu, HKUST
8:50 – 9:00	Welcome & Opening	Gary Shiu, HKUST
9:00 – 9:40	Talk #1: “Naturalness of 126 GeV Higgs Boson and meV Dark Energy” (Presentation File)	Satoshi Iso, High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK)
9:40 – 10:20	Talk #2: “Exploring the Axiverse by Gravitational Waves and Gamma Rays” (Presentation File)	Hideo Kodama, High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK)
10:20 – 11:00	Talk #3: “New Bubbles in Cosmology” (Presentation File)	Bum-Hoon Lee, Sogang University
11:00 – 11:30	Coffee Break
11:30 – 12:10	Talk #4: “Reheating the Universe Once More - the Dissipation of Acoustic Waves as a Novel Probe of Primordial Inhomogeneities on Even Smaller Scales” (Presentation File)	Teruaki Suyama, The University of Tokyo
12:10 – 14:30	Welcome Lunch
Chair	Hikaru Kawai, Kyoto University
14:30 – 15:10	Talk #5: “Stability and Predictability of the Schwarzschild-de Sitter Black Hole in the dRGT Massive Gravity Theory” (Presentation File)	Ivan Arraut, Osaka University
15:10 – 15:50	Talk #6: “Cosmological Implications of Redshift-space Clustering” (Presentation File)	Yong-Seon Song, Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute
15:50 – 16:30	Coffee Break
16:30 – onward	Discussion	--
End of Day 1

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20 May 2014 (Tue) - Theoretical Cosmology

Time	Event	Speaker
Chair	Qingguo Huang, Chinese Academy of Sciences
9:00 – 9:40	Talk #7: “Bounds on the Hidden Universe”	Subodh Patil, CERN
9:40 – 10:20	Talk #8: “Probability of Vacuum Stability in Type IIB Multi-Kähler Moduli Models” (Presentation File)	Yoske Sumitomo, High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK)
10:20 – 11:00	Talk #9: “Effective Field Theory for Spacetime Symmetry Breaking”	Toshifumi Noumi, RIKEN
11:00 – 11:30	Coffee Break
11:30 – 12:10	Talk #10: “Non-Gaussian Inflationary Signatures of Heavy Sectors and the Scale of UV Physics” (Presentation File)	Spyros Sypsas, Asia Pacific Center for Theoretical Physics
12:10 – 12:50	Talk #11: "Probing Dark Matter Physics via Exotic Decays of the 125 GeV Higgs Boson" (Presentation File)	Tao Liu, HKUST
12:50 – 14:30	Lunch (self-arranged) and Discussion
Chair	Henry Tye, HKUST
14:30 – 14:40	Short Talks and Discussion Structure Formation of the Universe in the Long Lifetime Decaying Dark Matter (DDM) Models	Dalong Cheng, CUHK
14:40 – 14:50	The Evolution of Cosmic Web: a Symphony of Gravity and Dark Energy	Jiajun Zhang, CUHK
14:50 – 15:00	Angular Momentum – Mass Relation in Dark Matter Haloes	Shihong Liao, CUHK
15:00 – 15:10	Millicharged Dark Matter in Quantum Gravity and String Theory	Fang Ye, HKUST
15:10 – 15:20	Probing Hidden Sectors with Stueckelberg U(1)’s	Pablo Soler Gomis, HKUST
15:20 – 15:30	Helical Inflation and Cosmic Strings	Sam Wong, HKUST
15:30 – 15:40	Probing Dark Matter with Gamma-Ray Anisotropies	Johannes Ulf Lange, CUHK
15:40 – 16:10	Coffee Break
16:10 – 18:00	Discussion	--
18:00 – 20:00	Reception	Location: 5/F Lounge, IAS Lo Ka Chung Building
End of Day 2

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21 May 2014 (Wed) - BICEP2 and Early Universe I

Time	Event	Speaker
Chair	Jinn-Ouk Gong, Asia Pacific Center for Theoretical Physics
9:00 – 9:40	Talk #12: “Cosmological Implications from BICEP” (Presentation File)	Qingguo Huang, Chinese Academy of Sciences
9:40 – 10:20	Talk #13: “Implications of the Tensor Mode Detection by BICEP2 for the QCD Axion” (Presentation File)	Kiwoon Choi, Institute for Basic Science
10:20 – 11:00	Talk #14: “Naturalness and Higgs inflation” (Presentation File)	Hikaru Kawai, Kyoto University
11:00 – 11:30	Coffee Break
11:30 – 12:10	Talk #15: “Open Inflation Reviving” (Presentation File)	Misao Sasaki, Kyoto University
12:10 – 12:50	Talk #16: “On Derivative Interactions for a Spin-2 field at Cubic Order” (Presentation File)	Xian Gao, Tokyo Institute of Technology
12:50 – 14:30	Lunch (self-arranged) and Discussion
Free Time
End of Day 3

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22 May 2014 (Thu) - Observations

Time	Event	Speaker
Chair	Hideo Kodama, High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK)
9:00 – 10:00	Talk #17: “BICEP2 Results, Implications, and Future”	Chao-Lin Kuo, Stanford University
10:00 – 11:00	Talk #18: “Wider, Deeper, Faster: Probing Fundamental Cosmology with Surveys by ACT and CHIME”	Adam Hincks, University of British Columbia
11:00 – 11:30	Coffee Break
11:30 – 12:10	Talk #19: “Cosmic Polarization Rotation (CPR) induced from Pseudoscalar-Photon Interaction and New CPR Constraints from SPTPOL and BICEP2 Detections of B-Mode Polarization in CMB" (Presentation File)	Wei-Tou Ni, National Tsing Hua University
12:10 – 14:30	Lunch (self-arranged) and Discussion
Chair	Gary Shiu, HKUST
14:30 – 15:30	Talk #20: “The Universe according to Planck” (Presentation File)	Douglas Scott, University of British Columbia
15:30 – 16:00	Group Photo & Coffee Break
16:00 – 17:30	Panel Discussion Moderator: Gary Shiu, HKUST Venue: Lecture Theater, G/F	· Adam Hincks, University of British Columbia · Chao-Lin Kuo, Stanford University · Douglas Scott, University of British Columbia
17:30 – 18:00	Free time	--
18:00 – 20:00	Banquet Shuttle Bus Departure Time - From IAS to Sai Kung: 18:00 - From Sai Kung to HKUST / Crowne Plaza / Holiday Inn Express in Tseung Kwan O: 20:00	Location: Sai Kung Remarks: Seafood is served
End of Day 4

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23 May 2014 (Fri) - BICEP2 and Early Universe II

Time	Event	Speaker
Chair	Wei-Tou Ni, National Tsing Hua University
9:00 – 9:40	Talk #21: “CMB Anomalies in the Light of BICEP2” (Presentation File)	Yi Wang, University of Cambridge
9:40 – 10:20	Talk #22: “Blue Tensor Spectrum from Particle Production during Inflation”	Ryo Namba, University of Tokyo
10:20 – 11:00	Talk #23: “Conformal Description of Inflation and Primordial B-Modes” (Presentation File)	Shi Pi, Asia Pacific Center for Theoretical Physics
11:00 – 11:30	Coffee Break
11:30 – 12:10	Talk #24: “Topological Inflation with Large Tensor-to-scalar Ratio” (Presentation File)	Chunshan Lin, The University of Tokyo
12:10 – 12:50	Talk #25: “Massive Gravity and Cosmology”	Shinji Mukohyama, The University of Tokyo
12:50 – 13:00	Closing Remarks	Gary Shiu, HKUST
End of Workshop


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