This should be an eclectic meeting with topics ranging from early-universe cosmology to dark matter and dark energy to mathematical relativity. We are inviting a limited number of select speakers from various fields and plan only a few talks per day in order to leave plenty of time for informal discussions.
The workshop will conclude with a Special NBIA Colloquium The gift that keeps on giving: observing the CMB in the post Planck era by Lyman Page.
| Tue, 05/17 | Wed, 05/18 | Thu, 05/19 | Fri, 05/20 | |
| 10:30am | Mukhanov | Alexander | Baym | Brandenberger |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Noon | lunch | lunch | lunch | lunch |
| 1:00pm | Penrose | Ijjas | Farrar | Durrer |
| 2:30pm | coffee | coffee | coffee | coffee |
| 3:00pm | Danielsson | Page | Burkert | Colloquium |
| Tuesday, 04/26 | |
|---|---|
| breakfast | |
| 10:00-11:00 | Max |
| 11:00-12:00 | Giorgi |
| lunch | |
| 1:00-2:00 | Timo |
| 2:00-3:00 | David |
This Princeton satellite event is associated with the annual `Origins of the Universe' conference that takes place Sept 26-27, 2019 at the Simons Foundation in New York City's Flatiron District.
| Wednesday, 09/25 | |
|---|---|
| 8:00-8:30 | breakfast |
| 8:30-9:15 | Sean McWilliams |
| 9:15-10:00 | Thibault Damour |
| coffee | |
| 10:30-11:15 | Richard Woodard |
| 11:15-12:00 | Slava Mukhanov |
| lunch | |
| 1:00-1:45 | Igor Rodnianski |
| 1:45-2:30 | Bruce Allen |
| 3:00 | End of Meeting/Bus departs to NYC |
This will be a small invitation-only collaboration meeting with only twelve participants. The goal is to discuss current issues of common interest at the intersection of mathematical and numerical relativity and cosmology and perhaps to start or continue collaborative work.
Participants: Ali Chamseddine (Beirut), Will Cook (Princeton), Ulf Danielsson (Stockholm), David Garfinkle (Oakland), Elena Giorgi (Columbia), Karsten Gundlach (Southampton), Anna Ijjas (Harvard), Roman Kolevatov (Princeton), Luis Lehner (Perimeter), V. (Slava) Mukahnov (LMU Munich), Frans Pretorius (Princeton), Paul Steinhardt (Princeton)
| Mo, 07/01 | Tue, 07/02 | Wed, 07/03 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8:00 | breakfast | breakfast | breakfast |
| 9:30 | NR Beyond Einstein | String Swampland | interaction time |
| Lehner, Pretorius | Danielsson, Steinhardt | Ijjas* | |
| Noon | lunch | lunch | lunch |
| 3:00 | Mimetic Gravity | Math GR | Ekpyrosis |
| Chamseddine, Mukhanov | Giorgi, Gundlach, Garfinkle | Cook, Kolevatov | |
| 7:00 | Dinner | Dinner | Dinner |
*optional: `working hike' to Rifugio Antonio Locatelli (Dreizinnenhütte). If you plan to join, bring appropriate hiking shoes. (NOTE: sneakers or training shoes are not safe)
| Thu, 07/04 | |
|---|---|
| 8:00 | breakfast |
| 9:00 | Travel to Venice |
| Noon | lunch; bring along family! |
| 2:00 | Panel on History of NR, led by Ijjas |
| panelists: Garfinkle, Gundlach, Lehner, Pretorius | |
| 5:00 | End of Meeting/Dinner on your own |
This is a satellite event in association with the `Origins of the Universe' conference that takes place Sept 20-21, 2018 at the Simons Foundation.
| Sa, 09/22 | |
|---|---|
| 8:30 | breakfast |
| 9:30-10:30 | Stephon Alexander: Dark Fermion Bouncing Cosmology and Scale Invariant Spectrum |
| coffee | |
| 11:00-12:00 | Slava Mukhanov: Ghost free mimetic massive gravity |
| lunch | |
| 1:00-2:00 | Mihalis Dafermos: The structure of singularities in black hole interiors |
| coffee | |
| 2:30-3:30 | Robert Brandenberger: Challenges for the Matter Bounce Cosmology |
| coffee | |
| 3:45-5:00 | Savdeep Sethi: The Status of the String Landscape |
The goal of the workshop is to explore new ideas for explaining the large-scale properties of the universe and concepts ranging from numerical general relativity to string theory that may be used to study them.
Participation is by invitation only.
The confirmed speakers are:
| Thu, 07/05 | Fri, 07/06 | Sat, 07/08 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8:00 | breakfast | breakfast | breakfast |
| 9:00 | Ijjas | Hilditch | Lehners |
| coffee | coffee | coffee | |
| 11:00 | Garfinkle | Vafa | Blumenhagen |
| lunch | lunch | lunch | |
| 2:00 | Baumgarte | Clough | |
| coffee | coffee | ||
| 4:00 | Okounkova/Cook | Komatsu |
This workshop will focus on modifications of Einstein gravity at high (but sub-Planckian) energy densities that would influence the dynamics and evolutionary history of the early universe. Of particular interest are a variety of recent proposals for avoiding the cosmological singularity by stably violating the null-energy condition while remaining in the regime of validity of classical field theories. Understanding these approaches requires the development of new ideas, new analytical tools, and new numerical techniques including novel adaptations of numerical general relativity to cosmology. The goal is to bring together leading experts in cosmology and general relativity to explore these ideas.
This workshop is supported in part by the Princeton Center for Theoretical Science.
We will have only five speakers and each will be given two 1.5 hour slots, so that there is time for a more pedagogical presentation and lots of time for questions and interaction during and after. In addition, on Tuesday right after lunch, there will be a Special Talk by Herman Verlinde. The confirmed speakers are:
| Mo, Jan 08 | Tue, Jan 09 | Wed, Jan 10 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8:30 | breakfast | breakfast | breakfast |
| 9:00 | Turok I | Langlois I | Langlois II |
| coffee | coffee | coffee | |
| 11:00 | Dafermos I | Gabadadze II | Dafermos II |
| lunch | lunch | lunch | |
| 1:00 | Verlinde | ||
| 2:00 | Mukhanov I | Turok II | |
| coffee | coffee | ||
| 4:00 | Gabadadze I | Mukhanov II |