5th PI/UofT/CITA Workshop (CIAR Cosmology & Gravity focus group)

Event Type: Conference
Scientific Area(s):
Cosmology
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Particle Physics
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Quantum Fields and Strings
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Quantum Gravity
End date:
December 6, 2004 at 9:00 AM

This mini-workshop will be the next of an ongoing series of one-day meetings between researchers at Perimeter, CITA and University of Toronto. These meetings are held to share new ideas and encourage interactions in our common fields of interest: superstrings, cosmology, particle theory and quantum gravity.

The meeting will be held in the Physics Building of the University of Toronto on Monday December 6. As usual, the format of the meeting will be a series of short 30-minute talks to seed informal discussion. The seminars will start at 11am in the Physics Lounge seminar room -- refreshments will be available starting at 10:30am. The afternoon session will be held in the CITA Lounge.

 

Speakers:

  • Cliff Burgess (PI/McMaster): Supersymmetric Large Extra Dimensions and the Cosmological Constant
  • Liam McAllister (Stanford): Volume Stabilization and the Inflaton Mass
  • Bond/Contaldi/Kofman/Vaudgevange (CITA): Scanning Inflation
  • Anthony Lewis (CITA): Probing vector, tensor and other cosmological perturbations
  • Pat McDonald (CITA): Primordial Spectrum from Lyman Alpha Clouds
  • Thomas Thiemann (Perimeter/AEI): Cosmological Applications of Loop Quantum Gravity