Utrecht Spring 2016
14h00 – 15h00: Fabian Schmidt (MPA Garching, Germany)
From GUT scale to galaxies: probing the early universe with
large-scale structure
16h00 – 17h00: Daan Meerburg (CITA, Canada)
14h00 – 15h00: Fabian Schmidt (MPA Garching, Germany)
From GUT scale to galaxies: probing the early universe with
large-scale structure
16h00 – 17h00: Daan Meerburg (CITA, Canada)
14.00-15.00: Gonzalo Palma (Univ. of Chile at Santiago)
The sound speed of primordial fluctuations in supergravity inflation
16.00: Joan van der Waals colloquium
David Reitze (Caltech / Univ. of Florida)
Executive Director, LIGO Laboratory
Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger
14:00-15:00 Robert Brandenberger (McGill)
Searching for Cosmic Strings in New Observational Windows
15:30-16:30 Gianluca Inverso (NIKHEF)
Single-step de Sitter vacua from non-perturbative effects with matter
12:30-13:30 Jens Chluba (IoA, Cambridge).
Science with CMB Spectral Distortions: a New Window to Early-Universe and Particle Physics
14:15-15:15 David Marsh (King’s College London)
Axion Cosmology, from strings to dwarf galaxies
16:00-17:00 Raphael Flauger (University of Texas, Austin)
On Tensions, Systematics and B-modes
12.30-14h: ‘Sound-bite’ session
Remko Klein (RUG) – An introduction to Galileons and higher order derivatives in scalar field theories
Anja Marunovic (UU) – Topological inflation and graceful exit
Antonella Garzilli (UL) – Features in the Lyman α forest spectrum
14h00-15h00: Giulio Fabbian (SISSA)
Modeling and measuring CMB lensing in the cross-correlation era.
15h30-16h30: Jorge Noreña (University of Geneva)
The squeezed limit of observable correlation functions
14h00 – 15h00 Mathias Garny (CERN)
UV dependence of the large scale structure power spectrum
15h45 – 16h30 Cora Uhlemann (LMU, Munich)
Large scale structure formation with the Schrödinger method
13h30 – 14h10: Saleem Zaroubi (Groningen)
14h15 – 15h00: Chanda Prescod-Weinstein (MIT)
Do Dark Matter Axions Form A Bose-Einstein Condensate?
15h30 – 16h10: Wessel Valkenburg (Leiden)
Towards simulating modified gravity by discretising imperfect fluids.