Origins of the Universe Conference 2019

The second annual meeting of the Origins of the Universe program will bring together four diverse groups of theoretical cosmologists and string theorists, each addressing the history of the universe in their own ways. The themes of the presentations and discussions will include inflationary dynamics and its observational probes, string cosmologies, bouncing and cyclic cosmologies, and other proposals for geodesically past-complete classical models.

Agenda

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 26

8:30 AM	CHECK-IN & BREAKFAST
9:30 AM	Paul Steinhardt | A New Kind of Cycle Universe
10:30 AM	BREAK
11:00 AM	Anna Ijjas| The Virtues of Slow Contraction, and Other Perks of Bouncing
12:00 PM	LUNCH
1:00 PM	Eva Silverstein | de Sitter and Large Field Inflation in String Theory
1:40 PM	BREAK
2:10 PM	Victor Gorbenko | Holography and Correlation Functions in de Sitter
2:50 PM	BREAK
3:20 PM	Dick Bond | Novel CMB+LSS non-Gaussianities from Entropy and Particle Creation driven by Instabilities During and After Inflation
4:00 PM	BREAK
4:20 PM	Guido D’Amico | The Analysis of BOSS data with the EFTofLSS
5:00 PM	DAY ONE CONCLUDES

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 27

8:30 AM	CHECK-IN & BREAKFAST
9:30 AM	Frans Pretorius | Numerical Studies of Modified Gravity
10:10 AM	BREAK
10:40 AM	Cumrun Vafa | Swampland and Cosmology
11:40 PM	LUNCH
12:40 PM	Andrew Tolley | Positivity Bounds in Effective Field Theories and Gravity
1:40 PM	BREAK
1:50 PM	David Pirtskhalava | Early and Late Time Cosmology Beyond GR
2:30 PM	MEETING CONCLUDES

Forefronts of Gravitational Physics Workshop

Those who are attending the Forefronts of Gravitational Physics Workshop Sept 24-25, 2019 in Princeton should plan to arrive on Monday, September 23rd. Please make this selection when you register. Accommodations will be made for you in Princeton, and a shuttle will take participants to New York in the evening of September 25th.

September 26, 2019

September 26, 2019

September 26, 2019

September 26, 2019

September 26, 2019

September 26, 2019

September 27, 2019

September 27, 2019

September 27, 2019

September 27, 2019