COSMO-04

International Workshop on Particle Physics and the Early Universe

Toronto, Canada,

Sept.17-21, 2004

Organized by the
Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics

Co-Sponsored by
U of T CIAR PI IPP PITP

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CONFERENCE DESCRIPTION

This year's edition of the annual Cosmo International Conference on Particle Physics and Cosmology -- Cosmo04 -- will be hosted by the Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics in Toronto between Friday September 17 till Tuesday September 21, 2004. The conference will take place at the downtown campus of the University of Toronto.
Cosmo-04 will be the eighth in the Cosmo series after Ambleside, UK 97 and 03; Asilomar, US 98;Trieste, Italy 99; Cheju Island, Korea 2K; Rovaniemi, Finland 01, Chicago, US 02.

The Cosmo series is one of the major venues of interaction between cosmologists and particle physicists. The Conference will be devoted to the modern interfaces between Fundamental and Phenomenological Particle Physics and Physical Cosmology and Astronomy.

The topics covered at the meeting will include: The format of the Conference will be the traditional one for the Cosmo series with about 25 invited 30 minute plenary talks and contributed 15-20 minute talks as selected by the chairs of the several parallel sessions which will run concurrently in the afternoons. Poster sessions will also be available.

Program ( Schedule)

The folllowing confirmed speakers will give plenary talks:

Tom Banks   (Rutgers, UCSC)
John Beacom   (Ohio State University)
Willfried Buchmüller   (DESY)
Ray Carlberg   (Toronto)
Gia Dvali   (NYU)
Alan Guth   (MIT)
Gary Horowitz   (KITP, Santa Barbara)
Wayne Hu   (Chicago)
Renata Kallosh   (Stanford)
Andrei Linde   (Stanford)
Art McDonald   (SNO, Queens)
Yannick Mellier   (Paris)
 Slava Mukhanov   (Munich)
Hitoshi Murayama   (Berkeley)
Julio Navarro   (UVic)
Keith Olive   (Minnesota)
Lyman Page   (Princeton)
Joe Polchinski   (KITP, Santa Barbara)
Misao Sasaki   (Kyoto)
Neil Spooner   (Sheffield, UK)
Alexei Starobinsky   (Moscow)
John Webb   (South Wales)
Thomas Weiler   (Vanderbilt)
Steven Weinberg   (Texas)

There will also be twelve parallel sessions with the following topics:

Saturday, 18. Sept. 2004:
Title Convener
Cosmic Rays/HE Astrophysics Katie Freese   (Ann Arbor)
Inflation/Perturbations I Richard Easther   (Yale)
Dark Energy I Rachel Bean   (Princeton)
Precision Cosmology I Dmitry Pogosyan   (Alberta)


Sunday, 19. Sept. 2004:
Title Convener
Dark Matter/Neutrino Experiments Mark Chen   (Queens)
Baryogenesis/Leptogenesis Juan Garcia-Bellido   (Madrid)
String/Brane Cosmology I Cliff Burgess   (McGill)
Dark Energy II Rachel Bean   (Princeton)


Monday, 20. Sept. 2004:
Title Convener
Dark Matter Theory Leszek Roszkowski   (Sheffield)
String/Brane Cosmology II Cliff Burgess   (McGill)
Inflation/Perturbations II Richard Easther   (Yale)
Precision Cosmology II Dmitry Pogosyan   (Alberta)


Posters will be presented during the coffee breaks of the parallel sessions

Organizing Committee

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Lev Kofman (Chair), Dick Bond, Carlo Contaldi, Andrei Frolov, Margaret Fukunaga, Milena Krasteva, Johannes Martin, Rob Myers, Marco Peloso, Dmitry Podolsky, Erich Poppitz, Pascal Vaudrevange