CITA/PI Day

This is an ongoing series of meetings between researchers at Perimeter Institute and CITA. The goals of this meeting is to share new ideas and encourage interaction in our common fields of interest through a series of informal talks followed by discussions. This term, it will be held at Perimeter Institute.


PROGRAM

10:30 - 10:45 - Coffee

10:45 - 11:00
Dick Bond and Neil Turok
Opening Remarks: In Memory of Lev Kofman

11:00 - 11:50
Andrei Frolov (Simon Fraser)
Searching for a Primordial Cold Spot in the CMB

11:50 - 12:40
Zhiqi Huang (CITA)
Primordial power spectra and cosmological observations

12:40 - 2:00 - Lunch

2:00 - 2:50
Neal Dalal (CITA)
Dark Matter Halos

2:50 - 3:40
David Rappetti (Stanford/KIPAC)
Constraints on dark energy, cluster astrophysics, modified gravity and neutrino properties from the observed growth of massive clusters

3:40 - 4:00 - Coffee break

4:00 - 4:50
Martin Haehnelt (Cambridge)
How cold is dark matter?

4:50 - 5:40
Louis Leblond (Perimeter)
Gravitational Waves from a Decaying Network of Cosmic Strings

6:00 - End of conference, dinner in Waterloo