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IPPP, Ogden Centre
South Road, Durham
PROGRAM
(Talks in OC218)
Monday September 6
| Time | Speaker | Title |
| 9:30 - 9:45 | WELCOME | |
| 9:45 - 10:45 | David Wands | A non-gaussianity tutorial / Scale-dependent fNL |
| 10:45 - 11:15 | COFFEE BREAK | |
| 11:15 - 11:45 | Johannes Noller | Non-Gaussianity in bimetric models and beyond |
| 11:45 - 12:15 | Shuntaro Mizuno | Primordial non-Gaussianity from the relativistic generalisation of the Galileon |
| 12:15 - 12:45 | Shuang-Yong Zhou | Galileon: Modified Gravity and Solitons |
| 12:45 - 2:00 | LUNCH | |
| 2:00 - 2:30 | Jose Fonseca | Large-scale Perturbations from the Waterfall Field in Hybrid Inflation |
| 2:30 - 3:00 | Christopher Gordon | Forecast constraints on particle production during inflation. |
| 3:00 - 3:30 | Anne Davis | TBA |
| 3:30 - 4:00 | TEA BREAK | |
| 4:00 - 4:30 | Jonathan Pearson | Stability of X- and Y-type junctions |
| 4:30 - 5:00 | Eimear O'Callaghan | Gravity waves from cosmic superstrings |
| 5:00 - 5:30 | Guido Walter Pettinari | Axions and AGN |
Tuesday September 7
| Time | Speaker | Title |
| 9:30 - 10:00 | Ippocratis Saltas | Legendre transformations and dynamical equivalence of modified gravity models |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Ian Kimpton | Horava Gravity |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Luke Barclay | Holographic Superconductors |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | COFFEE BREAK | |
| 11:30 - 12:00 | Elise Jennings | Large scale tests of modified gravity |
| 12:00 - 12:30 | Yin-Zhe Ma | B-mode polarization as a probe of the early Universe |
| 12:30 - 1:00 | Simeon Bird | Reconstructing the Matter Power Spectrum from the IGM. |
| 1:00 | LUNCH (CM211) |
Organizer: Ruth Gregory (0191-3343761, email: R.A.W.Gregory@durham.ac.uk
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