16–20 Aug 2010
Niels Bohr Institute
Europe/Copenhagen timezone

Workshop schedule

  Monday, August 16
     
 

9:40 am – 10:00 am

Registration

     
 

10:00 am – 10:15 am

Opening Remarks

     
 

10:15 am – 11:15 am

Quantum Origin of the Structure of the Universe
Viatcheslav Mukhanov
(Arnold Sommerfeld Center for Theoretical Physics, LMU München)

     
 

11:15 am – 11:45 am

Coffee

     
 

11:45 am – 12:45 pm

How to falsify inflation
Anupam Mazumdar (Lancaster University)

     
 

12:45 pm – 2:00 pm

Lunch

     
 

2:00 pm – 3:00 pm

Confronting theory with observations of weak gravitational lensing
Alan Heavens (University of Edinburgh)

     
 

3:00 pm – onward

Coffee and Discussion

     
 

Tuesday, August 17

 
     
 

10:00 am – 11:00 am

Primordial black holes and contomporary gravitational waves
Alexander Dolgov (ITEP, Moscow & Ferrara University)

     
 

11:00 am – 11:45 am

Coffee

     
 

11:45 am – 12:45 pm

Neutrino physics and precision cosmology—status and prospects
Steen Hannestad (Aarhus University)

     
 

12:45 pm – 2:00 pm

Lunch

     
 

2:00 pm – 3:00 pm

What do cosmological dark matter structures look like, and why?
Steen Hansen (DARK)

     
 

3:00 pm – onward

Coffee and Discussion

     
 

Wednesday, August 18

 
     
 

10:00 am – 11:00 am

ΛCDM : Triumphs, Puzzles and Remedies
Leandros Perivolaropoulos (University of Ioannina )

     
 

11:00 am – 11:45 am

Coffee

     
 

11:45 am – 12:45 pm

Analyzing the CMB in a model-independent manner
Syksy Räsänen (University of Helsinki)

     
 

12:45 pm – 2:00 pm

Lunch

     
 

2:00 pm – 3:00 pm

Asymmetric dark matter
Subir Sarkar (University of Oxford)

     
 

3:00 pm – onward

Coffee and Discussion

     
 

Thursday, August 19

 
     
 

10:00 am – 11:00 am

Fingerprints of the early universe
Hiranya Peiris (University College London)

     
 

11:00 am – 11:40 am

Coffee

     
  11:40 am – 11:45 am Workshop photograph
     
 

11:45 am – 12:45 pm

Primordial non-Gaussianity:  Models and observational constraints
Sabino Matarrese (University of Padua)

     
 

12:45 pm – 2:00 pm

Lunch

     
 

2:00 pm – 3:00 pm

Dark matter detection:  Complementarity of methods
Lars Bergström (Stockholm University)

     
 

3:00 pm – 6:30 pm

Coffee and Discussion

     
 

7:00 pm – onward

Workshop Dinner

     
 

Friday, August 20

     
 

10:00 am – 11:00 am

Dark energy and modified gravity
Shinji Tsujikawa (Tokyo University of Science)

     
 

11:00 am – 11:45 am

Coffee

     
 

11:45 am – 12:45 pm

Measuring dark energy using galaxy surveys
Will Percival (University of Portsmouth )

     
 

12:45 pm – 2:00 pm

Lunch

     
 

2:00 pm – onward

Coffee and Discussion