Thursday, March 27 |
09:00 - 09:30 | Registration |
09:30 - 09:40 | Opening Remarks |
09:40 - 10:00 | Walter Gear (ESF PESC Steering Committee) Presentation of the European Science Foundation (ESF) |
10:00 - 10:20 | Carlos Martins (CAUP, Porto) Astrophysical Tests of Fundamental Physics |
10:20 - 11:00 | Licia Verde (ICE, Barcelona) Observational Cosmology and Fundamental Physics |
11:00 - 11:30 | Coffee |
11:30 - 12:10 | Andy Taylor (IfA, Edinburgh) Probing the Universe with Cosmological Lensing |
12:10 - 12:50 | Enrique Fernandez-Martinez (MPF, Munich) Constraining the Dark Energy Potential with BAO Surveys |
12:50 - 15:00 | Lunch / Informal Discussion |
15:00 - 15:40 | Anthony Challinor (IoA/DAMTP, Cambridge) CMB Constraints on Fundamental Physics |
15:40 - 16:20 | Roberto Trotta (Oxford) Bayes in the Sky - Statistical Challenges in Cosmology |
16:20 - 17:00 | Clare Burrage (DAMTP, Cambridge) Supernova Brightening from Chameleon-Photon Mixing |
17:00 - 17:30 | Coffee |
17:30 - 19:00 | Discussion Session Where We Are: Current Strengths and Weaknesses of European Research in this Area |
Friday, March 28 |
09:00 - 09:40 | Philippe Brax (CEA, Saclay) The Ubiquitous Scalar Fields |
09:40 - 10:20 | Pierre Binétruy (APC, Paris) Astrophysical Consequences of Extra Dimensions |
10:20 - 11:00 | Luca Amendola (INAF, Roma Obs.) The Dark Side of Gravity |
11:00 - 11:30 | Coffee |
11:30 - 12:10 | Gilles Esposito-Farèse (IAP, Paris) Experimental and Theoretical Constraints on Alternative Gravity Theories |
12:10 - 12:50 | Cedric Pahud (Sussex) Triple Unification of Inflation, Dark Matter, and Dark Energy Using a Single Field |
12:50 - 15:00 | Lunch / Informal Discussion |
15:00 - 15:40 | Kari Enqvist (Helsinki) Inflation Within Minimally Supersymmetric Standard Model |
15:40 - 16:20 | Jonathan Rocher (ULB, Brussels) Constraining the Primordial SSBs and the Inflation Potential with the CMB |
16:20 - 17:30 | Coffee |
17:30 - 19:00 | Discussion Session Where do We Want to Go: Key Challenges and Opportunities in the Next Decade |
19:30 - 22:30 | Workshop Dinner |
Saturday, March 29 |
09:00 - 09:40 | Christophe Salomon (ENS, Paris) Fundamental Physics with Space Clocks |
09:40 - 10:20 | Paolo Molaro (Trieste Obs.) Astronomical Measurements and Constraints on the Space-time Variability of α and μ |
10:20 - 11:00 | Alessandro Melchiorri (Roma) New Constraints on the Cosmological Dark Side |
11:00 - 11:30 | Coffee |
11:30 - 12:10 | Ben Craps (VUB, Brussels) Modelling the Big Bang in String Theory |
12:10 - 12:50 | Liudmila Joukovskaya (DAMTP, Cambridge) Accelerating Universe from Cubic String Field Theory |
12:50 - 15:00 | Lunch / Informal Discussion |
15:00 - 15:40 | Ana Achúcarro (Inst. Lorentz, Leiden) Supergravity and Cosmolgy - Yet Again (cancelled) |
15:40 - 16:20 | Anastasios Avgoustidis (Barcelona) Cosmic Superstrings and their Astrophysical Consequences |
16:20 - 17:00 | Daniel Garcia-Figueroa (UAM, Madrid) Post-inflationary Gravitational Waves from Reheating |
17:00 - 17:30 | Coffee |
17:30 - 19:00 | Discussion Session How do We Get There: Plans for European-wide Actions |
19:00 | Closing |