September 14 (Thursday)
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September 15 (Friday)
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9:30-10:00
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Morning Coffee
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10:00-10:20
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Eiichiro Komatsu (UTA)
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Meeting Agenda and Opening Talk
[pdf]
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INFLATION AND THE EARLY UNIVERSE
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10:20-10:45
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Dimitri Nanopoulos (Tx A&M)
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Dark Energy and Non-critical
Strings
[pdf]
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10:45-11:10
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Steven Weinberg (UTA)
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Quantum Corrections to Cosmological Correlations: Who Cares?
[pdf]
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11:10-11:35
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Patrick Greene (UTSA)
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Getting a Bang out of Inflation: Reheating, Preheating, and Thermalization
[pdf]
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11:35-12:00
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Christopher Pope (Tx A&M)/
Malcolm Perry (Cambridge)
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The Mitchell Institute for
Fundamental Physics and Astronomy
[pdf]
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12:00-2:00
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Lunch at the Campus Club hosted by Paul R. Shapiro
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DARK ENERGY
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2:00-2:25
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Nicholas Suntzeff (Tx A&M)
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Dark Energy Task Force Report
[pdf]
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2:25-2:50
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Mustapha Ishak (UTD)
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Weak Lensing and Dark Energy
[pdf]
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2:50-3:15
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Karl Gebhardt/
Gary Hill (UTA)
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Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment
(HETDEX)
[pdf]
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3:15-3:40
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Lifan Wang (Tx A&M)
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Type Ia Supernova and Dark Energy
[pdf]
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20 minutes break
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DARK AGES
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4:00-4:25
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Paul Shapiro (UTA)
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Reionization of the Universe
[pdf]
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4:25-4:50
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Volker Bromm (UTA)
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First Stars
[pdf]
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10 minutes break
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5:00-6:00
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Open Discussion: Organization, Next Meeting and Future Directions
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