Nonequilibrium Phenomena in Cosmology and Particle Physics (Conference)Coordinators: Juergen Berges, Lev Kofman, Laurence YaffeFebruary 25, 2008 - February 29, 2008 |
Monday, February 25, 2008 |
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Morning Session Chair: Lev Kofman |
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| 8:50am | David Gross (KITP Director) |
Welcome |
| 9:00am | Andrei Linde (Stanford) |
QFT Aspects of Inflation |
| 10:00am | MORNING BREAK | |
| 10:30am | Roman Scoccimarro (NYU) |
Resummation in Gravitational Clustering in Cosmology |
| 11:30am | Sterl Phinney (Caltech) |
Prospects for Detecting Gravitational Waves from Nonequilibrium Phenomena |
| 12:30pm | LUNCH BREAK | |
Afternoon Session Chair: Jan Smit |
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| 2:00pm | Mark Hindmarsh (Univ. of Sussex) |
Cosmic Strings - Lessons from Field Theory |
| 2:30pm | Arttu Rajantie (Imperial College) |
Formation of Cosmic Strings in Gauge Field Theory |
| 3:00pm | Alex Chambers (Imperial College) |
Lattice Calculation of Non-Gaussianity from Preheating |
| 3:30pm | AFTERNOON BREAK | |
| 4:00pm | Dongsu Bak (Univ. Seoul) |
Time Dependent Black Holes and Thermal Equilibration |
| 4:30pm | Esteban Calzetta (FCEN - Buenos Aires) |
Analog Cosmology with Spinor Bose-Einstein Condensates |
| 5:00pm | Bei-Lok B. Hu (Univ. Maryland) |
Cosmological Perturbations and Structure Formation via Stochastic Gravity |
| 6:00pm | SHUTTLE TO BWSCI | |
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Tuesday, February 26, 2008 |
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Morning Session Chair: Laurence Yaffe |
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| 9:00am | Barbara Jacak (SUNY, Stony Brook) |
Experimenting with Strongly Coupled QCD Matter at RHIC |
| 10:00am | MORNING BREAK | |
| 10:30am | Ulrich Heinz (Ohio State/CERN) |
Viscous Hydrodynamics for Heavy-ion Collisions |
| 11:30am | Guy Moore (McGill Univ.) |
QCD Plasma Instabilities |
| 12:30pm | LUNCH BREAK | |
Afternoon Session Chair: Mikko Laine |
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| 2:00pm | Mike Strickland (Frankfurt IAS) |
Measuring QGP Isotropization Time with High-Energy Dileptons |
| 2:30pm | Dietrich Bodeker (Univ. of Bielefeld) |
Plasma Instabilities |
| 3:00pm | Sebastian Scheffler (Darmstadt Univ.) |
Bottom-up Isotropization in Classical-statistical Lattice Gauge Theory |
| 3:30pm | AFTERNOON BREAK | |
| 4:00pm | Pawel Danielewicz (NSCL, MSU) |
Partons in Phase Space |
| 4:30pm | Ariel Zhitnitsky (Univ of British Columbia) |
From RHIC Physics to Cosmology: 511 KeV Line and Other Diffuse Emissions as a Trace of the Dark Matter |
| 5:00pm | Fred Cooper (NSF) |
Quantum Back Reaction Problem in QED and QCD |
| 6:00pm | RECEPTION, WINE & NUTS | |
| 6:30pm | SPECIAL EVENTS DINNER | |
| 8:30pm | SHUTTLE TO BWSCI | |
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Wednesday, February 27, 2008 |
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Morning Session Chair: Wilfried Buchmuller |
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| 9:00am | Peter Petreczky (Brookhaven Nat'l Lab) |
Euclidean Correlators and Spectral Functions in Lattice QCD |
| 10:00am | MORNING BREAK | |
| 10:30am | Mikko Laine (Univ. Bielefeld) |
Cosmological Phase Transitions |
| 11:30am | Joseph Polchinski (UCSB, KITP) |
A Matrix Model for Black Hole Thermalization |
| 12:30pm | LUNCH BREAK | |
| 2:00pm | POSTER SESSION | |
| 3:00pm | FREE AFTERNOON | SHUTTLE AVAILABLE TO BWSCI |
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Thursday, February 28, 2008 |
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Morning Session Chair: Juergen Berges |
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| 9:00am | Andreas Karch (Univ. Washington) |
Gauge-string Duality |
| 10:00am | MORNING BREAK | |
| 10:30am | Szabolcs Borsanyi (Univ. Sussex) |
Nonequilibrium QFT |
| 11:30am | Jan Smit (Univ. Amsterdam) |
Lattice Simulations of Nonequilibrium Dynamics |
| 12:00pm | Gary Felder (Smith College) |
Gravity Waves from Preheating |
| 12:30pm | LUNCH BREAK | |
Afternoon Session Chair: Emil Mottola |
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| 2:00pm | Dam T. Son (Univ. Washington) |
Hydrodynamics from Gauge/Gravity Duality |
| 2:30pm | Alex Buchel (Univ. W. Ontario) |
Boost-invariant Plasma in AdS/CFT |
| 3:00pm | Christopher Herzog (Princeton) |
Impure AdS/CFT |
| 3:30pm | AFTERNOON BREAK | |
| 4:00pm | Pavel Kovtun (Univ. of Victoria) |
Universality without Symmetry |
| 4:30pm | Denes Sexty (TU Darmstadt) |
Real Time Simulations from Stochastic Quantisation |
| 5:00pm | Markus M. Mueller (MPI Heidelberg) |
Comparison of Boltzmann Kinetics with Quantum Dynamics for Relativistic Quantum Fields |
| 6:00pm | RECEPTION, WINE & NUTS | |
| 6:30pm | SPECIAL EVENTS DINNER | |
| 8:30pm | SHUTTLE TO BWSCI | |
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Friday, February 29, 2008 |
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Morning Session Chair: Owe Philipsen |
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| 9:00am | Wilfried Buchmuller (DESY) |
Baryogenesis and Dark Matter |
| 10:00am | MORNING BREAK | |
| 10:30am | Marco Peloso (Univ. Minnesota) |
Preheating after Inflation |
| 11:30am | George Fuller (UCSD) |
Frontiers of Neutrino Physics and Supernovae |
| 12:30pm | LUNCH BREAK | |
Afternoon Session Chair: Mark Hindmarsh |
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| 2:00pm | Thomas Gasenzer (Univ. of Heidelberg) |
Hot Dynamics of Ultracold Atoms |
| 2:30pm | Sergei Khlebnikov (Purdue Univ.) |
Classical Thermodynamics of Gravitational Collapse |
| 3:30pm | CONFERENCE END | |
| 3:45pm | SHUTTLE TO BWSCI | Shuttle also available to the SB Airport and SB Airbus, Goleta location. See Jocelyn to sign up. |
WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON
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| Andrew Beckwith (TcSAM) |
Several Routes to Determining Entropy Generation in the Early Universe [abstract] | |
| Yannis Burnier (Bielefeld Univ.) |
Heavy Quarkonium as a Probe of Hot QCD | |
| Paul Chesler (Univ. Washington) |
Jets in Strongly Coupled N = 4 Super Yang-Mills | |
| Mathias Garny (MPI Heidelberg) |
Kadanoff-Baym Equations and 2PI Renormalization [abstract] | |
| Yoshimasa Hidaka (Brookhaven Nat'l Lab) |
Suppression of the Shear Viscosity as QCD Cools Into a Confining Phase [abstract] | |
| Rudnei O. Ramos (Rio de Janeiro State Univ) |
Fluctuation and Dissipation in Nonequilibrium QFT and Studying Local Effective Langevin Dynamics | |
| Arnau Rios (NSCL, MSU) |
Time-dependent Green's Functions Approach to Nuclear Reactions [abstract] | |
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