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
Schedule
YOUNG RESEARCHERS WORKSHOP ON
THE PHYSICS OF DE SITTER SPACETIME
ALBERT EINSTEIN INSTITUT HANNOVER, GERMANY
SEPTEMBER 11-14, 2012
(download the program in PDF)
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
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
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
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