New Horizons in Inflationary Cosmology
The conference is dedicated to the recent progress in theoretical and observational cosmology, with an emphasis on inflationary cosmology, including its observational status and its implementation in supergravity and string theory.
Overview
March 3, 2017 - 9:00am to March 5, 2017 - 1:00pm
March 3: Kavli Auditorium, SLAC |
March 4-5: Hewlett Teaching Center, Room 201, Stanford University
The conference will begin on Friday March 3 at 9 in the morning, and end on Sunday 5 in the early afternoon. We will have a public lecture by John Carlstrom on observational cosmology on March 3 at 7:30 in the evening in the Hewlett Teaching Center, Room 201.
Speakers and Presentations
Public Lecture: John Carlstrom - What do We Know About The Big Bang?
Friday, March 3, 2017
Morning Session
Alan Guth - Sundry Topics in Inflationary Cosmology
John Carlstrom - Status and future plans for CMB measurements
J. Richard Bond - Aspects of Inflation ζ-Phenomenology
Matias Zaldarriaga - The mildly non-linear regime of structure formation
Afternoon Session
Leonard Susskind - Wormholes
Renata Kallosh - α-attractors and B-mode targets
Liam McAllister - B-modes and the Quantization of Parameters
Eva Silverstein - Strongly non-Gaussian theory and analysis
Leonardo Senatore - The Supersymmetric Effective Field Theory of Inflation
Juan Garcia-Bellido - Massive Primordial Black Holes from Inflation and their Detection with Gravitational Waves
Saturday, March 4, 2017
Morning Session
Chao-Lin Kuo - The March toward r=0.001
Fabio Finelli - Planck results on inflation and perspectives for future observations
Fernando Quevedo - Inflation and Post-Inflation in LVS
Michael Douglas - Computational Complexity of Cosmology
Afternoon Session
Alexander Vilenkin - Black holes and baby universes from inflation
James Hartle - The no-boundary measure
Raphael Bousso - Cosmological Area Theorem and Second Law
Yusuke Yamada - Gravitino problem in minimum supergravity inflation
Tomohiro Fujita - The new relationship between inflation and gravitational waves
Ali Masoumi - Inflation in random Gaussian landscapes
Kin-Wang Ng - Production of massive black holes in trapped inflation
Sunday, March 5, 2017
Morning Session
Alexander Westphal - (Rel)axion runaways and weakly gravitating axion monodromy
Timm Wrase - Constrained superfields in string cosmology
Nemanja Kaloper - 4π in the Sky
Thomas Bachlechner - Axions of Evil
Andrei Linde - Large field inflation: Recent progress and observational predictions
This conference is supported by the Templeton foundation grant Inflation, the Multiverse, and Holography.
Related workshop February 27 to March 1 at SLAC: CMB-S4
