New Directions in Theoretical Cosmology

New Directions in Theoretical Cosmology

June 24-26, 2015

Scuola Normale SuperioreSala Stemmi - Palazzo della CarovanaPiazza dei Cavalieri, 756126 Pisa - Italy

Speakers:

Diego Blas (CERN)Paolo Creminelli (ICTP)Cedric Deffayet (IAP)Claudia De Rham (Case Western U.)Gia Dvali* (Munich U. & NYU)Gregory Gabadadze (NYU)Lam Hui (Columbia U.)Paul McFadden (Imperial College)Oriol Pujolas (Barcelona Autonoma U.)Leonardo Senatore (Stanford U. )Gary Shiu (Wisconsin U.)Sergei Sibiryakov (EPFL & CERN)Andrew Tolley (Case Western U.)Filippo Vernizzi (IPhT, Saclay)

Program

Wednesday 24th

10:00 - 11:00 Paolo Creminelli “B-mode Cosmology"11:30 - 12:30 Andrew Tolley TBA

15:00-16:00 Gia Dvali "Quantum consistency of cosmological constant"16:30-17:30 Diego Blas "Massive gravity from spontaneous symmetry breaking"

Thursday 25th

10:00 - 11:00 Cedric Deffayet TBA11:30 - 12:30 Oriol Pujolas "Solid Applications of Massive Gravity"

15:00-16:00 Filippo Vernizzi "A unifying description of dark energy"16:30-17:30 Sergei Sibiryakov "TSPT: Time-sliced perturbation theory for large-scale structure"

Friday 26th

10:00 - 11:00 Paul McFadden "Soft limits in holographic cosmology"11:30 - 12:30 Gary Shiu TBA

15:00-16:00 Leonardo Senatore "Developments from the Effective Field Theory of Large Scale Structure"16:30-17:30 Lam Hui "Symmetries in large scale structure."

Local Organizing Committee: David Pirtskhalava, Enrico Trincherini