Astrophysical Tests of Fundamental Physics
27-29 March 2008, CAUP, Portugal

Note: Due to some technical problems with the camera, the recordings of the first five talks were erased. UPmedia apologizes. 

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)
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10:00 - 10:20 Carlos Martins (CAUP, Porto)
Astrophysical Tests of Fundamental Physics
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10:20 - 11:00 Licia Verde (ICE, Barcelona)
Observational Cosmology and Fundamental Physics
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11:00 - 11:30 Coffee
11:30 - 12:10 Andy Taylor (IfA, Edinburgh)
Probing the Universe with Cosmological Lensing
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12:10 - 12:50 Enrique Fernandez-Martinez (MPF, Munich)
Constraining the Dark Energy Potential with BAO Surveys
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12:50 - 15:00 Lunch / Informal Discussion
15:00 - 15:40
Anthony Challinor (IoA/DAMTP, Cambridge)
CMB Constraints on Fundamental Physics
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15:40 - 16:20
Roberto Trotta (Oxford)
Bayes in the Sky - Statistical Challenges in Cosmology
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16:20 - 17:00
Clare Burrage (DAMTP, Cambridge)
Supernova Brightening from Chameleon-Photon Mixing
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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
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09:40 - 10:20
Pierre Binétruy (APC, Paris)
Astrophysical Consequences of Extra Dimensions
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10:20 - 11:00
Luca Amendola (INAF, Roma Obs.)
The Dark Side of Gravity
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11:00 - 11:30 Coffee
11:30 - 12:10
Gilles Esposito-Farèse (IAP, Paris)
Experimental and Theoretical Constraints on Alternative Gravity Theories
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12:10 - 12:50
Cedric Pahud (Sussex)
Triple Unification of Inflation, Dark Matter, and Dark Energy Using a Single Field
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12:50 - 15:00 Lunch / Informal Discussion
15:00 - 15:40
Kari Enqvist (Helsinki)
Inflation Within Minimally Supersymmetric Standard Model
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15:40 - 16:20
Jonathan Rocher (ULB, Brussels)
Constraining the Primordial SSBs and the Inflation Potential with the CMB
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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
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09:40 - 10:20
Paolo Molaro (Trieste Obs.)
Astronomical Measurements and Constraints on the Space-time Variability of α and μ
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10:20 - 11:00
Alessandro Melchiorri (Roma)
New Constraints on the Cosmological Dark Side
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11:00 - 11:30 Coffee
11:30 - 12:10
Ben Craps (VUB, Brussels)
Modelling the Big Bang in String Theory
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12:10 - 12:50
Liudmila Joukovskaya (DAMTP, Cambridge)
Accelerating Universe from Cubic String Field Theory
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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
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16:20 - 17:00
Daniel Garcia-Figueroa (UAM, Madrid)
Post-inflationary Gravitational Waves from Reheating
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17:00 - 17:30 Coffee
17:30 - 19:00 Discussion Session
How do We Get There: Plans for European-wide Actions
19:00 Closing