Schedule

YOUNG RESEARCHERS WORKSHOP ON

THE PHYSICS OF DE SITTER SPACETIME

ALBERT EINSTEIN INSTITUT        HANNOVER, GERMANY

SEPTEMBER 11-14, 2012

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09:00 – 09:30   Registration / Coffee

09:30 – 09:45    Welcome
N. C. Tsamis & Br. Allen

Morning Session    (Chair: N. C. Tsamis)

09:45 – 10:45    Lecture
E. Mottola (Los Alamos): A Historical Perspective, and Not Only, on De Sitter Physics

10:45 – 11:30    Lecture
R. P. Woodard (Gainesville): Observables on De Sitter

11:30 – 12:30+    Discussion

13:00 – 14:00    Lunch / Coffee

Afternoon Session    (Chair: E. Mottola)

14:15 – 15:00    Lecture
F. Piazza (APC): The Infrared Modified Gravity

15:00 – 15:45    Lecture
Y. Urakawa (Barcelona): Fate of Long Wavelength Fluctuations and Initial States of
Inflationary Universe

15:45 – 17:00+    Discussion
09:00 – 09:30    Coffee

Morning Session    (Chair: M. Sasaki)

09:30 – 10:15    Lecture
H. de Vega (Jussieu): The Effective Theory of Inflation, Cosmological Observations
Contrasted with Quantum Fields in (Quasi)‐De Sitter Spacetime

10:15 – 11:00    Lecture
M. Sloth (Geneva): Infrared Growth in Inflationary Space‐times and the
Cosmological Renormalization Group Equation

11:00 – 11:45    Lecture
S‐P. Miao (Utrecht): Gravitational Effects on Massive Fermions during Inflation

11:45 – 12:45+    Discussion

13:00 – 14:00    Lunch / Coffee

Afternoon Session    (Chair: H. de Vega)

14:15 – 15:00    Lecture
T. Prokopec (Utrecht): Phase Transitions in De Sitter

15:00 – 15:45    Lecture
I. Morrison (Cambridge): Re-constructing De Sitter

15:45 – 17:00+    Discussion
09:00 – 09:30    Coffee

Morning Session    (Chair: R. Brandenberger)

09:30 – 10:15    Lecture
C. Skenderis (Amsterdam): Holography and the Very Early Universe

10:15 – 11:00    Lecture
D. Anninos (Stanford): Aspects of De Sitter Holography

11:00 – 11:45    Lecture
Th. Hartman (IAS): De Sitter Holography with Higher Spin Gravity

11:45 – 12:45+    Discussion

13:00 – 14:00    Lunch / Coffee

Afternoon Session    (Chair: C. Skenderis)

14:15 – 15:00    Lecture
A. Starobinsky (Landau): Non‐perturbative Effects in Stochastic Slow‐roll Inflation

15:00 – 15:45    Lecture
G. Marozzi (College de France): Stochastic Generation of Quantum Fluctuations in
Single Field Inflationary Models

15:45 – 17:00+    Discussion

19:00 WORKSHOP DINNER / DISCUSSION
09:00 – 09:30    Coffee

Morning Session    (Chair: R. P. Woodard)

09:30 – 10:30    Lecture
S. Sarkar (Oxford): Is our Universe in a De Sitter Phase?

10:30 – 11:15    Lecture
E. Kahya (Jena): Quantum Effects to Scalar Particles during Inflation

11:15 – 12:00    Lecture
H. Kitamoto (KEK): Soft Gravitons Screen Couplings in De Sitter Space

12:00 – 13:00+    Discussion

13:15 – 14:15    Lunch / Coffee

Afternoon Session    (Chair: Br. Allen)

14:30 – 15:30    Lecture
R. Brandenberger (McGill): An Overall Assessment of De Sitter Physics

15:30 – 17:00+    Discussion