IR Issues and Loops in de Sitter Space

The quantum mechanics of inflation features crucially in the way we understand the power spectrum of fluctuations that gives rise to the temperature anisotropy observed by WMAP and PLANCK. This workshop proposes to investigate a number of issues concerning the calculation of loops as well as the problems associated with the late time or infrared behaviour of fields in de Sitter space. A better understanding of quantum fields in de Sitter may also shed light on the current state of acceleration of the Universe.

Participants:

Peter Adshead, University of Chicago
Niayesh Afshordi, Perimeter Institute
Emil Akhmedov, Moscow ITEP
Dan Boyanovsky, University of Pittsburgh
Latham Boyle, Perimeter Institute
Robert Brandenberger, McGill University
Cliff Burgess, Perimeter Institute
Xingang Chen, Cambridge University
James Cline, McGill University
Emanuela Dimastrogiovanni, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare
Alexander Dolgov, University of Ferrara
Astrid Eichhorn, Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Jena
Matteo Fasiello, University of Milan Bicocca
Raphael Flauger, Yale University
Laurent Freidel, Perimeter Institute
Ghazal Geshnizjani, Perimeter Institute
Steve Giddings, University of California Santa Barbara
Arthur Hebecker, Heidelberg University
Atsushi Higuchi, University of York
Rich Holman, Carnegie Mellon University
Jason Kumar, University of Hawaii at Manoa
Matthew Johnson, Perimeter Institute
Louis Leblond, Perimeter Institute 
Jean-Luc Lehners, Perimeter Institute
Donald Marolf, University of California, Santa Barbara
Ian Morrison, University of California, Santa Barbara
Ugo Moschella, University of Insubria
Emil Mottola, LANL
Alexander Polyakov, Princeton University
Tomislav Prokopec, Utrech University
Arvind Rajaraman, UC Irvine
Albert Roura, Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute)
Leonardo Senatore, IAS/Stanford
Sarah Shandera, Perimeter Institute
Ben Shlaer, Tufts University
Martin Sloth, CERN
Lee Smolin, Perimeter Institute
Takahiro Tanaka, Yukawa Institute at Kyoto University
Nikolaos Tsamis, University of Crete
Yuko Urakawa, Waseda University
Jose Roberto Vidal, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid
Yi Wang, McGill University
Steven Weinberg, University of Texas at Austin
Richard Woodard, University of Florida
Jiajun Xu, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Wei Xue, McGill University