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CITA/PI Day

Workshop
Tue, Feb 15, 2011, 10:00 AM
Location:
Perimeter Institute


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 in Waterloo.


PROGRAM

8:30 a.m.
Shuttle to Perimeter departs from the corner of Russell and Huron

10:00 a.m. to 10:30 a.m.
Morning Coffee

10:30 a.m. to 11:15 a.m.
Sudeep Das (UC Berkeley)
A New View of the Cosmic Microwave Background with ACT

11:15 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
Josef Pradler (Perimeter)
Big Bang Nucleosynthesis as a probe of new physics

12:00 p.m.
Lunch

1:30 p.m. to 2:15 p.m.
Carlos Palenzuela (CITA)
TBD

2:15 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.
Richard Shaw (CITA)
Constraining Primordial Magnetism

3:00 p.m.to 3:45 p.m.
Chad Hanna (Perimeter)
Present status (and near-term expectations) for gravitational-wave observations using ground-based laser interferometers

3:45 p.m. to 4:10 p.m.
Coffee Break

4:10 p.m. to 4:55 p.m.
Dick Bond (CITA)
TBD

4:55 p.m. to 5:40 p.m.
Frans Pretorius (Princeton)
The instability of 5 dimensional black strings

5:45 p.m.
Dinner and drinks in Waterloo

8:30 p.m.
Shuttle returns to CITA