Programme
The meeting was held in Room G205 of the Alan Turing Building (see this page for directions to the building). Below is the list of the times, speakers and titles for the talks. Presentations were 20 minutes long, and were followed by 5 minutes for questions.
| 15 September | |
|---|---|
| 12.30 | Start of meeting |
| 12.30–14.00 | Lunch |
| 14.00–14.25 | Stephen Appleby, University of Manchester Searching for viable F(R) modified gravity models |
| 14.25–14.50 | Shaun Thomas, UCL Weak Lensing and Modified Gravity |
| 14.50–15.15 | Iain Brown, Universitaet Heidelberg Averaging Robertson-Walker Cosmologies |
| 15.15–15.45 | Break |
| 15.45–16.35 | Sarah Church, Stanford University Measurements of the Polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background radiation with QUaD |
| 16.35–17.00 | Alan Duffy, University of Manchester Dark Matter Haloes in WMAP5 |
| 17.00 | End for the day |
| 16 September | |
| 09.30 | Start for the day |
| 09.30–09.55 | Christian Byrnes, ITP, Heidelberg Large non-Gaussianity from slow-roll inflation |
| 09.55–10.20 | Simeon Bird, IoA, Cambridge Fine-tuning criteria for inflation |
| 10.20–10.45 | Laila Alabidi, Queen Mary, University of London Single-Field Models of Inflation after WMAP5 |
| 10.45–11.15 | Break |
| 11.15–11.40 | Apostolos Pilaftsis, University of Manchester F_D Term Hybrid Inflation and Gravitinos |
| 11.40–12.05 | Narendra Sahu Natural keV Dark Matter via the Supersymmetric Higgs Portal and Small Scale Structures |
| 12.05–12.30 | Rose Lerner, Lancaster University Transient Breakdown of Slow-roll and Homogeneity During Inflation: Step Features with a Space-Dependence. |
| 12.30–14.00 | Lunch |
| 14.00–14.25 | Richard Battye, University of Manchester Cosmic string power spectra and their consequences |
| 14.25–14.50 | Neil Bevis, Imperial College Cosmic strings under WMAP5+ |
| 14.50–15.15 | Martin Kunz, University of Sussex How acausal do active sources have to be to fit the WMAP data? |
| 15.15–15.45 | Break |
| 15.45–16.10 | Frank Deppisch, University of Manchester Right-handed Sneutrinos as Cold Dark Matter in the F_D Term Model of Hybrid Inflation |
| 16.10–16.35 | Stephanie Stuckey, University of Sussex Cosmic Strings:Loops and Small Scale Structure |
| 16.35–17.00 | Senthooran Rajamanoharan, DAMTP, University of Cambridge Cusps in DBI strings with junctions |
| 17.00 | End for the day |
| 17 September | |
| 09.30 | Start for the day |
| 09.30–09.55 | Mathieu Remazeilles, LPT Orsay Dissipation and nonlocality in a general expanding braneworld universe |
| 09.55–10.20 | Hooshyar Assadullahi, ICG, Portsmouth Generation of gravitational waves in an early matter era |
| 10.20–10.45 | Joao Rosa, University of Oxford Resonant Particle Production in Branonium |
| 10.45–11.15 | Break |
| 11.15–11.40 | Mr Huiquan Li, University of Sussex Inhomogeneous tachyon condensation |
| 11.40–12.05 | Maryam Shaeri, Nottingham University Perturbations in Loop Quantum Cosmology |
| 12.05–12.30 | TBC |
| 12.30–14.00 | Lunch |
| 14.00 | End of meeting |
