UniverseNet

The second network school and meeting

Oxford, UK

  22 to 26 September 2008

  

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School Programme

The following lectures were arranged for the morning sessions:

Jenni Adams (Christchurch): The standard Big Bang cosmology

Lars Bergstorm (Stockholm): Dark matter and its detection

Wilfried Buchmuller (DESY Hamburg): Field theory - the Standard Model and beyond

Sergio Colafrancesco (ASI-ASDC): High energy astrophysics

Joe Conlon (DAMTP Cambridge): Cosmological aspects of  string theory abstract

Sacha Davidson (IPN Lyon): Neutrino mass and leptogenesis

Amol Dighe (TIFR Mumbai): Neutrino oscillations and supernovae

Hiranya Peiris (IoA Cambridge): Inflation and the cosmic microwave background abstract

Each topic had 2 lectures of 45 min + 15 min discussion.

In the afternoons there were short talks of 12+3 min by young researchers - the selection was been made by the Organisers from the submitted abstracts. Those who could not be offered a speaking slot were invited to contribute a poster (and made a brief oral presentation in the poster inauguration session on the opening day).

Special talks ended the session every afternoon:

Alan Barr: The startup of the LHC

Marco Cirelli: New particles as dark matter

Joseph Silk: Challenges in astroparticle physics

 

  MON-22/09 TUE-23/09 WED-24/09 THU-25/09
Session Chair

Sarkar

Tamvakis

Drees

Lalak

09:00 - 10:00 Buchmuller Buchmuller Dighe Davidson
10:00 - 11:00 Adams Colafrancesco Davidson Dighe
11:00 - 11: 30

COFFEE/TEA

11:30 - 12:30 Bergstrom Adams Peiris Peiris
12:30 - 13:30 Bergstrom Colafrancesco Conlon Conlon
13:30 - 14:30 LUNCH
Session Chair

Hannestad

Rey

Lesgourgues

Faraggi

14:30 - 15:45 Short talks by young researchers
15:45 - 16:15 TEA/COFFEE
Session Chair

Axenides

Perivolaropoulos

Damgaard

Quiros

16:15 - 17:30 Short talks by young researchers
17:30 - 18:00

Poster

Inauguration

Cirelli Silk Barr

 

Joe Conlon (DAMTP Cambridge): Cosmological aspects of  string theory

My two lectures will discuss the cosmological aspects of the moduli fields that occur in string theory generically and ubiquitously. I introduce moduli and explain their potential uses for inflationary model building.

I describe the moduli (Polonyi) problem that afflicts the thermal computation of WIMP dark matter, the tension in string models between inflation and low-energy supersymmetry and possible observational consequences of moduli as part of dark matter.

Hiranya Peiris (IoA Cambridge): Inflation and the cosmic microwave background

In the first lecture, I will review the physics of the cosmic microwave background (CMB), and how precision observations of the CMB can be used to obtain information about the initial conditions, constituents, and dynamics of the universe.

In the second lecture, I will discuss the fundamentals of the inflationary paradigm, including background dynamics and the origin of perturbations, and highlight what we have learned about the big picture of inflation using measurements of the CMB.

Both lectures will be pedagogical/general rather than specialised, at the level of Scott Dodelson's excellent text book, "Modern Cosmology" (2003, Elsevier).

 

 

Short talks by young researchers

TALKS - Titles & Abstracts "here"

POSTERS- Titles & Abstracts "here"

 
  Time Mon 22/9  Tue 23/9 Wed 24/9 Thu 25/9
           
  14:30-14:45 Delahaye Babichev Artymowski Basboell
           
  14:45-15:00 Gustafsson Konstandin Clesse Battefeld
           
  15:00-15:15  Kim Kostouki Collins Ferrantelli
           
  15:15-15:30 Kulkarni Ntalianis Hamann Mether
           
  15:30-15:45  Lattanzi Panotopoulos Hunt Riva
           
  15:45-16:15  Tea/Coffee Tea/Coffee Tea/Coffee Tea/Coffee
           
  16:15-16:30  Naranjo Reijonen Jarnhus Ballesteros
           
  16:30-16:45 Palorini Rigopoulos Lerner Bryja
           
  16:45-17:00  Park Rosa Nurmi Shafieloo
           
  17:00-17:15  Riemer-Sorensen Bogdanos Renaux-Petel Lund
           
  17:15-17:30 Sahu Zuleta Valkenburg Piorkowska
           
  17:30-18:00 Poster session:      
    Battefeld      
    Coimbra-Araujo      
    Dechant      
    Gangopadhyay      
    Kaminska      
    Morelli      
    Piechocki      
    Vertongen      
    Zajac      
           
           

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