Topical Workshop on Cosmology:
Interplay Between Theory and Observation

Workshop Program


*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*