Sunday, 28. August 2005


Sunday Session 1: Neutrinos/Baryogenesis
Location: Mathematisches Institut, Small Lecture Hall, First Floor, Room 242
Convenor: Laura Covi

Time

Speaker

Title

14.00-14.25Melchiorri, AlessandroNew Constrains on neutrino physics from cosmology
14.30-14.55Caldwell, DavidA Sterile Neutrino is Required by the Solar Neutrino Flux Modulation
15.00-15.25Smit, JanWinding knots and Chern-Simons number in a tachyonic electroweak transition
15.30-15.55Grigoriev, DmitriElectroweak baryogenesis in hadronic jets
16.00-16.30Coffee break
16.30-16.47Ichikawa, KazuhideWMAP Constraint on Neutrino Masses
16.50-17.07Konstandin, ThomasMSSM Electroweak Baryogenesis and Flavour Mixing in Transport Equations
17.10-17.27Fromme, LarsElectroweak baryogenesis with dimension-6 Higgs interactions
17.30-17.47Seniuch, MichaelElectroweak baryogenesis in the two Higgs doublet model
17.50-18.07Takahashi, FuminobuMeV-scale Reheating and Neutrino Oscillations
18.10-18.27Katlai, BalajiLeptogenesis with Dirac neutrinos.


Sunday Session 2: Observational Cosmology
Location: Mathematisches Institut, Large Lecture Hall, First Floor, Room 241
Convenor: Ryan Scranton

Time

Speaker

Title

14.00-14.25Kasuya, Shinta511 keV line from MSSM Q balls in the galactic bulge
14.30-14.55Wong, YvonneZ-bursts from the Virgo cluster
15.00-15.25Majumdar, SubhabrataImplications for Dark Energy & Inflation from Cluster Surveys
15.30-15.55Slosar, AnzeLuminosity dependence of pairwise velocities in the halo model
16.00-16.30Coffee break
16.30-16.47Bellini, FabioCuoricino results and perspectives for Cuore
16.50-17.07Sakharov, AlexanderLimits on Lorentz Violation from Gamma-Ray Bursts
17.10-17.27Umezu, KenichiCosmological Constraints on Newton"s Constant
17.30-17.47Simpson, FergusCan cosmic shear detect baryon oscillations?
17.50-18.07Kogo, NoriyukiConstraining Cosmological Parameters by the Cosmic Inversion Method


Sunday Session 3: Dark Energy
Location: Physikalisches Institut, Lecture Hall 1
Convenor: John McDonald and Massimo Pietroni

Time

Speaker

Title

14.00-14.25Parkinson, DavidCosmological model selection with nested sampling
14.30-14.55van de Bruck, Carsten Cosmology with Neutrino Models of Dark Energy
15.00-15.25Jaeckel, JoergDark Energy at Future Colliders: Testing the True Nature of Dark Energy in Black Hole Evaporations
15.30-15.55Sereno, MauroProbing dark energy with strong and weak lensing by galaxy clusters
16.00-16.30Coffee break
16.30-16.47Upadhye, AmolDynamical dark energy: Constraints, forecasts, and milestones for future progress
16.50-17.07Le Delliou, MorganPress-Schechter mass function in dynamical quintessence fields
17.10-17.27Nobbenhuis, Stefan
Video 		Categorizing different approaches to the cosmological constant problem


Sunday Session 4: Modified Gravity
Location: Mathematisches Institut, Zeichensaal, First Floor, Room 244
Convenor: Nelson Nunes

Time

Speaker

Title

14.00-14.25Sola, JoanRunning cosmological constant: mimicking variable dark energy
14.30-14.55Prokopec, Tomislav The cosmology of the nonsymmetric theory of gravitation
15.00-15.25Hamada, Ken-jiInflation and Primordial Spectrum from Background Free Quantum Gravity
15.30-15.55Yukawa, TetsuyukiEvolution of simplicial universe
16.00-16.30Coffee break
16.30-16.47Mirabotalebi, SedighehPhoton mass In Weyl-Dirac theory
16.50-17.07De Felice, AntonioThe cosmology of modified gravity models


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Monday, 29. August 2005


Monday Session 1: Inflation
Location: Mathematisches Institut, Large Lecture Hall, First Floor, Room 241
Convenor: Marco Peloso

Time

Speaker

Title

14.00-14.25McDonald, JohnSimulations of the End of SUSY Hybrid Inflation and Non-Topological Soliton Formation
14.30-14.55Baacke, JürgenNonequilibrium dynamics in scalar hybrid models
15.00-15.25Covi, LauraWMAP and LSS Constraints on the Running Mass Model
15.30-15.55Jeannerot, RachelWMAP Constraints on F-term Inflation and Leptogenesis
16.00-16.30Coffee break
16.30-16.47Martin, MatthewGauge Invariant Probabilities in Eternal Inflation
16.50-17.07Boyle, LathamInflationary predictions reconsidered
17.10-17.27Dufaux, Jean-FrancoisPreheating with a 3-legs interaction
17.30-17.47Vaudrevange, PascalScanning Inflation
17.50-18.07de la Macorra, AxelThe normalized tachyon and inflation
18.10-18.27Suyama, TeruakiBlack hole production in preheating


Monday Session 2: Observational Cosmology
Location: Physikalisches Institut, Lecture Hall 1
Convenor: Souradeep Tarun

Time

Speaker

Title

14.00-14.25Scranton, RyanCosmic Magnification with the SDSS
14.30-14.55Jetzer, PhilippeRecent microlensing results towards LMC and M31
15.00-15.25Zakharov, AlexanderMeasuring parameters of Supermassive Black Holes with Space Missions
15.30-15.55Leubner, ManfredNon-extensive theory of dark matter and gas density distributions in galaxies and clusters
16.00-16.30Coffee break
16.30-16.47Fairbairn, MalcolmPhoton Mixing in domain walls and the cosmic coincidence problem
16.50-17.07Pützfeld, DirkPost-Newtonian Cosmology
17.10-17.27Di Grezia, ElisabettaExperimental bounds on Lorentz violation in the neutrino sector


Monday Session 3: Dark Matter
Location: Mathematisches Institut, Zeichensaal, First Floor, Room 244
Convenor: David Caldwell

Time

Speaker

Title

14.00-14.25Tetradis, NikolaosDark energy and dark matter in galaxy halos
14.30-14.55Steffen, Frank DanielGravitinos and Axinos in Cosmology and at Colliders
15.00-15.25Choi, Ki YoungGravitino Dark Matter in the Constrained Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model
15.30-15.55Lemoine, MartinGravitino dark matter in gauge mediated supersymmetry breaking
16.00-16.30Coffee break
16.30-16.47Matsumoto, ShigekiDirect and indirect detections of heavy wino-like dark matter
16.50-17.07Kakizaki, MitsuruSignificant effects of second KK particles on LKP dark matter physics
17.10-17.27Sato, YoshioEnhancement of Line Gamma Ray Signature from Bino-like Dark Matter Annihilation due to CP Violation
17.30-17.47Senami, MasatoDark Matter Direct Detection in Electron Accelerators


Monday Session 4: String/Brane Cosmology
Location: Mathematisches Institut, Small Lecture Hall, First Floor, Room 242
Convenor: Philippe Brax

Time

Speaker

Title

14.00-14.25Vilenkin, AlexanderProbabilities in the landscape
14.30-14.55Vargas Moniz, PauloBorn Infeld Cosmology
15.00-15.25Tolley, AndrewString pair production in a time-dependent gravitational field.
15.30-15.55Soda, JiroStability of Dilaton in String Gas Cosmology
16.00-16.30Coffee break
16.30-16.47Biswas, TirthabirBouncing Universes in String-inspired Gravity
16.50-17.07Nayeri, AliPower Spectrum of String Energy Fluctuations in the Brandenberger-Vafa Cosmology
17.10-17.27Kanno, SugumiBraneworld Flux Inflation
17.30-17.47Benson, Katherine Constructing Braneworld Field Theories
17.50-18.07Hiramatsu, TakashiEvolution of gravitational waves in the high-energy regime of brane-world cosmology
18.10-18.27Salmi, PetjaSemilocal String Networks


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Tuesday, 30. August 2005


Tuesday Session 1: CMB
Location: Physikalisches Institut, Lecture Hall 1
Convenor: Mark Hindmarsh

Time

Speaker

Title

14.00-14.25Schwarz, Dominik The low-l microwave sky
14.30-14.55Pogosyan, DmitriCBM and cosmic topology
15.00-15.25Gordon, ChristopherAlignments in the Cosmic Microwave Background anisotropy from non-linear Quintessence inhomogeneity.
15.30-15.55Acquaviva, VivianaCMB lensing and cosmic acceleration
16.00-16.30Coffee break
16.30-16.47Vernizzi, FilippoNon linear cosmological perturbations
16.50-17.07Väihkönen, AnttiNon-Gaussian perturbations with two scalar fields
17.10-17.27Landriau, MartinCMB and weak lensing from cosmic strings
17.30-17.47Brown, IainNon-Gaussianity of Cosmic Magnetic Fields
19.30-23.00Conference Dinner


Tuesday Session 2: Modified Gravity
Location: Mathematisches Institut, Zeichensaal, First Floor, Room 244
Convenor: Tomislav Prokopec

Time

Speaker

Title

14.00-14.25Rosati, FrancescaQuintessence and varying alpha
14.30-14.55Lee, Hyun MinNew warped solutions and self-tuning in six-dimensional supergravity
15.00-15.25Nunes, NelsonInflation from oscillatory Universes in Loop Quantum Cosmology
15.30-15.55Schmid, ChristophCosmological Gravitomagnetism and Mach"s Principle
16.00-16.30Coffee break
16.30-16.47Faridi, M. AyubFoliation of Spacetime
19.30-23.00Conference Dinner


Tuesday Session 3: Inflation
Location: Mathematisches Institut, Large Lecture Hall, First Floor, Room 241
Convenor: Jerome Martin

Time

Speaker

Title

14.00-14.25Wiltshire, DavidViable inhomogeneous universe without dark energy from primordial inflation
14.30-14.55Felder, GaryWaves and Bubbles: The Detailed Structure of Preheating
15.00-15.25Dimopoulos, KonstantinosString Moduli Fields and Inflation
15.30-15.55Berera, ArjunSupersymmetric models of warm inflation
16.00-16.30Coffee break
16.30-16.47Mack, KatherinePhenomenological Classification of Inflationary Potentials
16.50-17.07Schalm, KoenraadCan cosmological data contain signatures of quantum gravity/string theory
17.10-17.27Kadota, KenjiParameterizing the power spectrum: Beyond the truncated Taylor expansion
17.30-17.47Tranberg, AndersCold Electroweak Baryogenesis: Scanning Parameter Space
17.50-18.07Felder, GaryThe equation of state after preheating
19.30-23.00Conference Dinner


Tuesday Session 4: String/Brane Cosmology
Location: Mathematisches Institut, Small Lecture Hall, First Floor, Room 242
Convenor: Alexander Vilenkin

Time

Speaker

Title

14.00-14.25Lebedev, Oleg Maximal temperature from decompactification
14.30-14.55Papazoglou, AntoniosConstraints in the cosmology of conical branes
15.00-15.25Postma, MariekeCosmic strings with zero modes in supergravity
15.30-15.55Antunes, NunoColliding kinky-branes
16.00-16.30Coffee break
16.30-16.47Wesley, DanielCompactification and Chaos in Collapsing Universes
16.50-17.07Takamizu, YuichiDomain Walls in asymptotically Anti de Sitter spacetime
17.10-17.27Borunda, MonicaUniversal Behaviour of Cosmological Singularities and String Theory
17.30-17.47Avgoustidis, AnastasiosCosmic String Evolution in Higher Dimensions
17.50-18.07Jackson, MarkDetecting cosmic superstrings
19.30-23.00Conference Dinner


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Wednesday, 31. August 2005


Wednesday Session 1: CMB
Location: Physikalisches Institut, Lecture Hall 1
Convenor: Dimitri Pogosyan

Time

Speaker

Title

14.00-14.25Hofmann, Ralf SU(2)_CMB and the large-angle regime of various power spectra
14.30-14.55Cooray, AsanthaGravitational Wave Background From Inflation: CMB and Direct Detection with Space Based Interferometers
15.00-15.25Souradeep, TarunStatistical isotropy of CMB anisotropy
15.30-15.55Hindmarsh, MarkCMB power spectrum from cosmic strings
16.00-16.30Coffee break
16.30-16.47Bashinsky, SergeiBehind the CMB: From Interpretation of Blackbox Computations to Predictive Analytical Description
16.50-17.07Moskaliuk, StepanPolarisation of CMBR in anisotropic and inhomogeneous cosmological models
17.10-17.27Väliviita, Jussi Vacuum energy density and initial conditions of cosmic pertubrations
17.30-17.47Yamazaki, DaiThe Primordial magnetic field and the Cosmic Microwave Background


Wednesday Session 2: Dark Energy
Location: Mathematisches Institut, Small Lecture Hall, First Floor, Room 242
Convenor: David Parkinson

Time

Speaker

Title

14.00-14.25Liddle, AndrewDirect reconstruction of the quintessence potential
14.30-14.55Pietroni, MassimoDark Energy Condensation
15.00-15.25Doran, MichaelEarly Dark Energy
15.30-15.55Freedman, WendyThe Carnegie Supernova Program
16.00-16.30Coffee break
16.30-16.47Tsujikawa, Shinji Dark energy and cosmological solutions in second-order string gravity
16.50-17.07Afshordi, NiayeshInstabilty of Dark Energy with Mass Varying Neutrinos
17.10-17.27Erickson, JoelA multi-pronged approach to the dark energy problem
17.30-17.47Ghosh, SubirChaplygin gas for dark energy


Wednesday Session 3: Cosmological Perturbations
Location: Mathematisches Institut, Zeichensaal, First Floor, Room 244
Convenor: Carsten van de Bruck

Time

Speaker

Title

14.00-14.25Lyth, DavidPrimordial non-gaussianity
14.30-14.55Malik, KarimCosmological perturbations: recent developments at second order
15.00-15.25Yoshiguchi, HiroyukiQuantization of scalar perturbations in brane-world inflation
15.30-15.55Rigopoulos, GerasimosNon-linear inflationary perturbations via stochastic equations
16.00-16.30Coffee break
16.30-16.47Van Tent, BartjanNon-Gaussianity in Multiple-field Inflation
16.50-17.07Boubekeur, LotfiNon-Gaussianity from a subdominant component of curvature perturbation
17.10-17.27Bozza, ValerioScalar perturbations in bouncing cosmologies
17.30-17.47Geshnizjani, GhazalPerturbations in a regular bouncing Universe
17.50-18.07Kobayashi, TsutomuGeneration and evolution of gravitational waves in an inflationary braneworld


Wednesday Session 4: Inflation
Location: Mathematisches Institut, Large Lecture Hall, First Floor, Room 241
Convenor: Gary Felder

Time

Speaker

Title

14.00-14.25Brax, Philippeshift symmetry and inflation in supergravity
14.30-14.55Martin, Jerome Coupling Quintessence to Inflation in SUGRA
15.00-15.25Shapiro, IlyaAnomaly-Induced Inflation
15.30-15.55Notari, AlessioRe-opening the window for First Order (Extended) Inflation
16.00-16.30Coffee break
16.30-16.47Takahashi, TomoImplications of the Curvaton on Inflationary Cosmology
16.50-17.07Multamaki, TuomasInflationary landscape
17.10-17.27Garbrecht, BjörnLamb Shift of Unruh Detector Levels as Probe for the Inflationary Vacuum
17.30-17.47Yokoyama, ShuichiroA new formalism for the spectrum of inflationary curvature perturbations
17.50-18.07Ramirez, ErandyStochastic approaches to inflation model building
18.10-18.27Kyae, BumseokInflation with realistic supersymmetric SO(10)


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