November 18 (Thursday)
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Chair: Austin Gleeson
Room: ACES 6.304
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9:00-9:40
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Keiichi Maeda
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Brane World Gravity and Cosmology
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9:40-10:20
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Nobuyoshi Ohta
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Accelerating cosmologies and inflation from M-theory
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Break
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10:40-11:20
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Jun'ichi Yokoyama
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Inflaton decay in the thermal bath
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11:20-12:00
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Takeshi Chiba
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Scalar-Tensor Cosmology
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Lunch
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Chair: Jun'ichi Yokoyama
Room: ACES 6.304
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13:30-14:10
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Steven Weinberg
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TBD
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14:10-14:50
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Shinji Mukohyama
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Ghost condensation
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Break
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SPECIAL PHYSICS/ASTRONOMY JOINT COLLOQUIUM
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Chair: Paul Shapiro
Room: ACES 2.302 (Avaya Auditorium)
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15:10-15:50
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Rocky Kolb
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The effect of inhomogeneities on the expansion rate of the Universe
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16:00-16:40
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Motohiko Yoshimura
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Towards resolution of the mass hierarchy problem in a cosmological context (tentative)
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November 19 (Friday)
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Chair: Rocky Kolb
Room: ACES 6.304
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9:00-9:40
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Willy Fischler
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Holographic Cosmology
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9:40-10:20
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Sonia Paban
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The Energy Density of "Wound" Fields in a Toroidal Universe
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Break
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10:40-11:20
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Eiichiro Komatsu
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2-year WMAP results: observations and power spectrum (tentative)
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11:20-12:00
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Rachel Bean
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2-year WMAP results: cosmological implications (tentative)
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Lunch
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Chair: Duane Dicus
Room: ACES 6.304
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13:30-14:10
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Paul Shapiro
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Cosmological Reionization and the End of the Dark Ages
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14:10-14:50
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Volker Bromm
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The First Sources of Light
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Break
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15:10-15:50
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Naoki Yoshida
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Structure Formation in the Universe from z=100 to z=0
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15:50-16:30
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Shardha Jogee
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The evolution of barred galaxies over the last 9 billion years
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Break
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Chair: Willy Fischler
Room: ACES 6.304
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16:50-17:30
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Takahiko Matsubara
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Galaxy clustering in deep redshift space as a cosmological probe
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17:30-18:10
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Gary Hill
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HETDEX: The Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment
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November 20 (Saturday)
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Chair: Eiichiro Komatsu
Room: RLM 5.104
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9:00-9:40
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Masahide Yamaguchi
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Spontaneous baryogenesis in flat directions
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9:40-10:20
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Kazunori Kohri
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Hadronic decay of SUSY particles and problems in cosmology
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Break
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10:40-11:20
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Masahiro Yamaguchi
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Cosmology of Heavy Gravitino/Moduli
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11:20-12:00
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Gianfranco Bertone
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Dark Matter and the Galactic center
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12:00-12:40
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David Lyth
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TBD
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