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Cosmological Non-Gaussianity: Observations Confront Theory Workshop |
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May 13-15, 2011 340 West Hall &
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Central Campus
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| Friday May 13th, 2011 | ||
| 8:30 AM | Breakfast in 337 West Hall | |
| 9:00 AM | Gordon Kane (University of Michigan) | Welcome |
| 9:10 AM | Sabino Matarrese (Universita di Padova) | Probing Primordial Non-Gaussianities with Large-Scale Structure Data |
| 9:40 AM | Xingang Chen (Cambridge University) | Primordial features and non-Gaussianities as evidence for inflation |
| 10:00 AM | Leonardo Senatore (Stanford University) | The effective field theory of Inflation and Multifield Inflation |
| 10:20 AM | Morning Coffee Break in 337 West Hall | |
| 10:50 AM | Misao Sasaki (Kyoto University) | Delta N Formalism and Superhorizon Curvature Perturbation |
| 11:20 AM | Justin Khoury (University of Pennsylvania) | Scale Invariance from Conformal Invariance |
| 11:40 AM | Daniel Chung (University of Wisconsin) | Isocurvature Perturbations and NG from Nonthermal Dark Matter |
| 2:00 PM | Marco Peloso (University of Minnesota) | Large NG in Axion Inflation |
| 12:20 PM | Lunch | |
| 2:00 PM | Chris Byrnes (Bielefeld University) | Scale dependent Non-Gaussianity |
| 2:20 PM | Paul Shellard (Cambridge University) | CMB Non-Gaussianity: Modal Methods |
| 2:40 PM | James Fergusson (Cambridge University) | Applications of Modal Methods |
| 3:00 PM | Michele Liguori (Cambridge University) | A Model Bispectrum Estimator for the CMB Bispectrum |
| 3:20 PM | Refreshments and Coffee in 337 West Hall | |
| 3:50 PM | Jun'ichi Yokoyama (University of Tokyo) | G-inflation and its Non-Gaussianity |
| 4:10 PM | Kazuya Koyama (University of Portsmouth) | Non-Gaussianity from DBI Galileons |
| 4:30 PM | Canoeing @ Huron River | |
| Saturday May 14th, 2011 | ||
| 8:30 AM | Breakfast in 337 West Hall | |
| 9:00 AM | Licia Verde (Universitat de Barcelona) | General Non-Gaussian Shapes in Large-Scale Structure |
| 9:30 AM | Fabian Schmidt (Caltech) | Peak-background Split and Primordial Non-Gaussianity |
| 10:00 AM | Morning Coffee Break in 337 West Hall | |
| 10:30 AM | Roman Scoccimarro (New York University) | Probing Primordial Non-Gaussianity with Large-Scale Structure |
| 10:50 AM | Shirley Ho (UC Berkeley) | Large-Scale Clustering, Systematics, and NG |
| 11:10 AM | Carlos Cunha (University of Michigan) | The Dark Energy Survey and Primordial Non-Gaussianity |
| 11:30 AM | Kendrick Smith (Princeton University) | Halo Clustering with fNL, gNL, and tau_NL |
| 11:50 AM | Raphael Flauger (Yale University) | Resonant Non-Gaussianity |
| 12:10 PM | Discussion | |
| 12:20 PM | Lunch | |
| 2:00 PM | Machine-Gun session:
Anthony Pullen (Caltech)
Ivan Agullo (Penn State University)Emanuela Dimastrogiovanni (Padova) Tsz-Yan Lam (IPMU) Annalisa Pillepich (UC Santa Cruz) Tobias Baldauf (University of Zurich) Heike Modest (MPE) Jonathan Ganc (University of Texas)
Nico Hamaus (University of Zurich)Guido d'Amico (New York University) Amjad Ashoorion (Uppsala University) Qingqing Mao (Vanderbilt University) Adam Becker (University of Michigan) |
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| 3:10 PM | Discussion | |
| 3:30 PM | Refreshments and Coffee in 337 West Hall | |
| 4:00 PM | Donghui Jeong (Caltech) | Pg(k) near Horizon scales: galaxy bias in general relativity and effective fNL |
| 4:20 PM | Jaiyul Yoo (University of Zurich) | General Relativistic Description of the Observed Galaxy Power Spectrum |
| 4:40 PM | Paolo Creminelli (ICTP) | Galilean symmetry in the effective theory of inflation |
| 5:00 PM | Eugene Lim (Cambridge University) | Can we ever detect tensor non-Gaussianities? |
| 6:30 PM | Reception and Dinner @ Art Museum | |
| Sunday May 15th, 2011 | ||
| 8:30 AM | Breakfast in 337 West Hall | |
| 9:00 AM | Emiliano Sefusatti (Institut de Physique Theorique) | Primordial Non-Gaussianity & the Galaxy Bispectrum |
| 9:20 AM | Vincent Desjacques (University of Zurich) | Non-Gaussian bias from peak-background split |
| 9:40 AM | Eiichiro Komatsu (University of Texas) | Non-Gaussianity Consistency Relation for Multi-field Inflation |
| 10:00 AM | Morning Coffee Break in 337 West Hall | |
| 10:30 AM | Sarah Shandera (Perimeter Institute) | New observational power from halo bias |
| 10:50 AM | Cristiano Porciani (University of Bonn) | Primordial Non-Gaussianity and the Large-Scale Structure of the Universe |
| 11:10 AM | Marilena Loverde (Institute for Advanced Study) | Halo Mass Function with fNL, gNL, and tau_NL Loverde |
| 11:30 AM | Naoshi Sugiyama (Nagoya University) | Effect of Kurtosis-Type of Primordial NG on Halo Mass Function |
| 11:50 AM | Christophe Ringeval (Universite Catholique de Louvain) | Non-Gaussianities from cosmic strings in scaling |
| 12:10 PM | Discussion | |
| 12:20 PM | Lunch | |
| 2:00 PM | Gary Shiu (University of Wisconsin) | Effective Field Theory and Decoupling in Multifield Inflation |
| 2:20 PM | Aashay Kumar (University of Michigan) | Non-Gaussianity and Scale Dependence Kumar |
| 2:40 PM | Enrico Pajer (Cornell University) | Dante's Inferno |
| 3:00 PM | Refreshments and Coffee in 337 West Hall | |
| 3:30 PM | Neil Barnaby (U. of Minnesota) | Probing the Inflaton Coupling to Matter with NG |
| 3:50 PM | Louis LeBlond (Perimeter Institute) | Beyond the Bispectrum: N-point functions for large N |
| 4:10 PM | Takahiro Tanaka (Kyoto University) | IR Effects on Cosmological Perturbation |
| 4:30 PM | Christoph Raeth (MPE) | Probing Scale-dep NG in the WMAP Data Using Surrogates |
| 4:50 PM | Scott Watson (Syracuse) | Summary and Closing Remarks |
| 5:00 PM | End of workshop | |
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