Thursday 16 September

19:00 - 21:00

Welcome Reception/Registration

Field Institute

Friday 17 September 

08:00 - 09:00

Registration

Hart House Theatre

Plenary Session I     Hart House Theatre

08:50 – 09:00

Lev Kofman/Dick Bond

Welcome

09:00 – 09:40

Steven Weinberg

Opening Thoughts

09:40 – 10:20

Andrei Linde

Towards Inflation in String Theory

10:20 – 10:40 Coffee Break

 

10:40 – 11:20

Slava Mukhanov

How Robust are Predictions from Inflation

11:20 – 12:00

Lyman Page

Status of CMB Measurements and Future Directions

12:00 – 13:30

Conference Lunch

 Hart House

Plenary Session II     Hart House Theatre

13:30 – 14:10

Ray Carlberg

Supernova cosmology with the CFHTLS

14:10 – 14:50

Wayne Hu

Neoclassical Probes of Dark Energy

14:50 – 15:30

Coffee Break

 

15:30 – 16:10

Renata Kallosh

The Cosmological Constant and Fundamental Physics

16:10 – 16:50

Gia Dvali

Attractive Hierarchy

 

Saturday 18 September 

Plenary Session III     Medical Science Building, Room MS3154

09:00 – 09:40

Neil Spooner

Status and Prospects of WIMP Dark Matter Experiments

09:40 – 10:20

Julio Navarro

The Small Scale Structure of Dark Matter

10:20 – 10:40

 Coffee Break

 

10:40 – 11:20

Tom Banks

Holographic Cosmology

11:20 – 12:00

Gary Horowitz

Cosmological Singularities in String Theory

12:00 – 13:30

Lunch Break

 


Parallel Session
I     Wycliff College

13:30 – 17:30

Cosmic Rays/HE Astrophysics

Inflation & Perturbations I

Dark Energy I

Precision Cosmology I

Social Event

18:30 - 23:00

Conference Party

Distillery Historic District (Boilerhouse)

Sunday 19 September 

Plenary Session IV     J.J.R. MacLeod Auditorium, Medical Sciences

09:00 – 09:40

Hitoshi Murayama

Beyond the Standard Model of Particle Physics

09:40 – 10:20

Willfried Buchmόller

Baryon Asymmetry and Thermal Leptogenesis

10:20 – 10:40

Coffee Break

 

10:40 – 11:20

Thomas Weiler

Controversy and Mystery in Highest-Energy Cosmic Rays

11:20 – 12:00

John Beacom

Towards First Glimpses of the Universe in Neutrinos

12:00 – 13:30

Lunch Break

 

 

Parallel Session II     Wycliff College

13:30 – 17:30

Dark Matter/Neutrino Experiments

Baryogenesis/Leptogenesis

String/Brane Cosmology I

Dark Energy II

Monday 20 September 

Plenary Session V     Hart House Theatre

09:00 – 09:40

Art MacDonald

Particle Astrophysics with SNO and the new SNOLAB

09:40 – 10:20

Yannick Mellier

Cosmological Weak Lensing: Present status and Future Prospect

10:20 – 10:40

Coffee Break

 

10:40 – 11:20

Alan Guth

Eternal Inflation

11:20 – 12:00

Joe Polchinski

Cosmic Superstrings

12:00 – 13:30

Lunch Break

 

 

Parallel Session III     Wycliff College

13:30 – 17:30

Dark Matter Theory

String/Brane Cosmology II

Inflation & Perturbations II

Precision Cosmology II


Tuesday 21 September

Plenary Session VI     Hart House Theatre

09:00 – 09:40

John Webb

The Status of Varying Constants from Hight Redshift Observations

09:40 – 10:20

Keith Olive

The Status of Varying Coupling Constants in Cosmology

10:20 – 10:40

 Coffee Break

 

10:40 – 11:20

Misao Sasaki

Cosmology and Gravity in the Braneworlds

11:20 – 12:00

Alexei Starobinsky

Conclusion: Beyond the Standard Cosmological Model

12:00 – 13:30

Lunch Break

 

 

End of COSMO04