Thursday, May 1 | |||||||||||
10:30 - 11:30 | Licia Verde - "Dark Energy and Related Issues" | 11:30 - 12:00 | Discussion | 12:00 - 2:00 | Lunch Break | ||||||
2:00 - 3:00 | Mark Trodden - "Cosmic Acceleration" | ||||||||||
3:00 - 3:30 | Discussion | ||||||||||
3:30 - 4:00 | Coffee Break | ||||||||||
4:00 - 5:00 | Roy Maartens - "Dark Energy and Modified Gravity" | ||||||||||
5:00 - 5:30 | Discussion | ||||||||||
Friday, May 2 | |||||||||||
9:00 - 10:00 | Richard Easther - "Observational Constraints on Inflation" | ||||||||||
10:00 - 10:30 | Discussion | ||||||||||
10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee Break | ||||||||||
11:00 - 12:00 | Tirthabir Biswas - "Local Void vs. Dark Energy" | ||||||||||
12:00 - 12:30 | Discussion | ||||||||||
12:30 - 2:00 | Lunch Break | ||||||||||
2:00 - 3:00 | Katie Freese - "Dark Matter" | ||||||||||
3:00 - 3:30 | Discussion | ||||||||||
3:30 - 4:00 | Coffee Break | ||||||||||
4:00 - 5:00 | Stephon Alexander - "On String Inflation, Baryogenesis and Galactic Magnetic Fields" | ||||||||||
5:00 - 5:30 | Discussion | ||||||||||
Saturday, May 3 | |||||||||||
9:00 - 10:00 | Paul Steinhardt - "Issues in Inflationary and Cyclic Cosmology" | ||||||||||
10:00 - 10:30 | Discussion | ||||||||||
10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee Break | ||||||||||
11:00 - 12:00 | Martin Bojowald - "Fundamental Properties and Phenomenological Aspects of LQG:
The Missing Link" | 12:00 - 12:30 | Discussion | 12:30 - 2:00 | Lunch Break | 2:00 - 4:00 | Discussion session moderated by Abhay Ashtekar - | Open Problems and Future Directions in Theoretical and Observational Cosmology | |