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August 25 - 29, 2014

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August 25, 2014 - Monday
8:15 AMContinental Breakfast
8:45 AM - 9:00 AMConference Opening
9:00 AM - 12:30 PMPlenary SessionChair: Abby Vieregg
9:00 AM - 9:45 AMJohn M Kovac, Harvard University
Detection of B-mode Polarization at Degree Angular Scales with BICEP2 [PDF, 31.67 MB]
9:45 AM - 10:30 AMLloyd E Knox, UC Davis
The Marvelous Success of the Standard Cosmological Model
10:30 AM - 11:00 AMCoffee break
11:00 AM - 11:45 AMEva Silverstein, Stanford University
The structure of large-field inflation in string theory and CMB phenomenology [PDF, 1.06 MB]
11:45 AM - 12:30 PMNeal Weiner, New York University
Dark matter overview [PDF, 13.2 MB]
12:30 PM - 2:00 PMLUNCH
  
2:00 PM - 5:00 PMParallel Sessions
3:20 PM - 3:40 PMCoffee break
  
5:00 PM - 7:00 PMSpecial meeting sessionRoom 200
 Discussion of Particle Astrophysics Projects in P5
Neutrinos, Dark Matter, Cosmic Acceleration, Exploration
Scott Dodelson, Bradford Benson, Neal Weiner, Nikhil Padmanabhan, John Kovac

August 26, 2014 - Tuesday
8:15 AMContinental Breakfast
  
9:00 AM - 12:30 PMPlenary SessionChair: Dragan Huterer
9:00 AM - 9:45 AMSarah Shandera, Pennsylvania State University
Non-Gaussianity and tests of inflation in a finite universe [PDF, 1.66 MB]
9:45 AM - 10:30 AMHiranya Peiris, University College London
Cosmological inflation: from observations to fundamental physics [PDF, 15.77 MB]
10:30 AM - 11:00 AMCoffee break
11:00 AM - 11:45 AMWill Kinney, University at Buffalo, SUNY
Inflation after Planck and BICEP [PDF, 3.45 MB]
11:45 AM - 12:30 PMRyan Foley, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Supernova Cosmology: Successes, Challenges, and Prospects [PDF, 23.37 MB]
12:30 PM - 2:00 PMLunch
  
2:00 PM - 4:40 PMParallel Sessions
3:20 PM - 3:40 PMCoffee break
5:00 PMParticle fever film ''dinner & a movie''
  • 5:00 PM - buses board at GLEACHER
  • 5:15 PM - buses depart
  • 5:45 PM - Box Dinner
  • 6:30 PM - Film + discussion
  • 9:00 PM - buses begin boarding for return trip to suggested hotels
  • 9:15 PM - buses depart

August 27, 2014 - Wednesday
8:15 AMContinental Breakfast
  
9:00 AM - 12:30 PMPlenary SessionChair: Tracy Slatyer
9:00 AM - 9:45 AMNikhil Padmanabhan, Yale University
BAO
9:45 AM - 10:30 AMCatherine Heymans, University of Edinburgh
Gravitational lensing [PDF, 16.29 MB]
10:30 AM - 11:00 AMCoffee break
11:00 AM - 11:45 AMWendy Freedman, Carnegie Observatories
Overview of dark energy measurements [PDF, 35.13 MB]
11:45 AM - 12:30 PMMark Trodden, University of Pennsylvania
Theoretical Aspects of Cosmic Acceleration [PDF, 4.48 MB]
12:30 PM - 2:00 PMLunch
  
2:00 PM - 5:00 PMParallel Sessions
3:20 PM - 3:40 PMCoffee break
6:00 PMConference Banquet at Adler Planetarium
  • 6:00 PM - buses board at GLEACHER
  • 6:15 PM - buses depart to Adler Planetarium for conference banquet
  • 6:30 PM - 7:30 PM Hors d'oeuvres and Wine Reception
  • 7:30 PM - dinner
  • 9:30 PM - buses board
  • 9:45 PM - buses depart for return trip to suggested hotels

August 28, 2014 - Thursday
8:15 AMContinental Breakfast
  
9:00 AM - 12:30 PMPlenary SessionChair: Ruth Gregory
9:00 AM - 9:45 AMNima Arkani-Hamed, Institute for Advanced Study
Cosmological collider physics
9:45 AM - 10:30 AMStefano Borgani, Astronomical Observatory of Trieste
Cosmology with Galaxy Clusters: the Role of Simulations [PDF, 18.24 MB]
10:30 AM - 11:00 AMCoffee break
11:00 AM - 11:45 AMLaura Baudis, University of Zurich
Direct detection of dark matter [PDF, 62.25 MB]
11:45 AM - 12:30 PMTracy Slatyer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Dark matter indirect detection
12:30 PM - 2:00 PMLunch
6:00 PM''Multiverse: Facts, Fictions & Fantasies''
event at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Shuttle transportation to SAIC will not be provided. Distance from Gleacher to SAIC (37 S. Wabash Avenue) is approximately one mile

August 29, 2014 - Friday
8:15 AMContinental Breakfast
  
9:00 AM - 12:30 PMPlenary SessionChair: Mike Turner
9:00 AM - 9:45 AMKiwoon Choi, Institute for Basic Science (IBS)
QCD axions with high scale inflation [PDF, 1.61 MB]
9:45 AM - 10:30 AMDaniel Green, CITA
B-modes and the Nature of Inflation [PDF, 5.29 MB]
10:30 AM - 11:00 AMCoffee break
11:00 AM - 11:45 AMJustin Khoury, University of Pennsylvania
Beyond the Cosmological Standard Model [PDF, 97.48 MB]
11:45 AM - 12:30 PMAndrei Linde, Stanford University
Inflation in supergravity and cosmological attractors [PDF, 19.16 MB]
12:30 PM - 2:00 PMLunch
  
2:00 PM - 5:00 PMParallel Sessions
  • Dark Energy Room 621
    Chairs: Marcelle Soares-Santos, Albert Stebbins
  • Dark Matter Room 300
    Chairs: Douglas Spolyar, Adrienne Erickcek
  • Formal/Inflation Room 200
    Chairs: Marilena Loverde, Kurt Hinterbichler
3:20 PM - 3:40 PMCoffee break