POST-INFLATIONARY STRING COSMOLOGY

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Aula A (University of Bologna, Department of Physics and Astronomy)

Aula A

University of Bologna, Department of Physics and Astronomy

via Irnerio 46
David (Bologna U.) Ciupke (Bologna U.), Francisco (IFT, Madrid) Pedro (IFT, Madrid), Michele (Bologna U. & ICTP) Cicoli (Università di Bologna & ICTP), Pramod (ICTP) Shukla (ICTP), Susha (Liverpool U.) Parameswaran (Liverpool U.)
Description

An early epoch of inflationary expansion would explain the isotropy and flatness of the Universe and provide the seeds for the CMB anisotropies and large scale structure formation. Over the last decade, string theory has provided a well-motivated framework to address the microscopic nature of inflation and its sensitivity to quantum gravity effects. However the post-inflationary epoch has been relatively little explored so far.
The main cosmological challenges to be addressed include pre- and re-heating, the origin of the matter-antimatter asymmetry, the nature of dark matter, dark radiation and dark energy. String theory -- with its unified description of gravity and particle physics -- provides a promising framework to address these connections between cosmology and particle physics. Ultimately, post-inflationary physics will strongly constrain string models of the early Universe and could have implications for a wide range of experiments and observations, from the CMB to dark matter detection, from gravity waves to colliders.
The workshop will bring together experts in string theory, cosmology and astroparticle physics who will focus on post-inflationary string cosmology with plenty of time for informal discussions and collaboration.


Invited speakers:

Ana Achucarro
Rouzbeh Allahverdi
Mustafa Amin
Robert Brandenberger
Cliff Burgess
Joe Conlon
Ed Copeland
Laura Covi
Mafalda Dias
Fabio Finelli
Jonathan Frazer
Marco Garbini
Cristiano Germani
Arthur Hebecker
Satoshi Iso
Jin U Kang
Sven Krippendorf
Anshuman Maharana
David Marsh
Nicolò Masi
Francesco Muia
Fernando Quevedo
Marco Scalisi
Fuminobu Takahashi
Gianmassimo Tasinato
Alexander Westphal
Ivonne Zavala
Poster
Participants
  • Alessandro Tronconi
  • Alexander Kamenshchik
  • Alexander Westphal
  • Amjad Ashoorioon
  • Ana Achucarro
  • ANSHUMAN MAHARANA
  • Arthur Hebecker
  • Beatrice D'Angelo
  • Cliff Burgess
  • Cristiano Germani
  • David Ciupke
  • David Marsh
  • Ed Copeland
  • Fabio Finelli
  • Fazlollah Hajkarim
  • Fernando Quevedo
  • Fiorenzo Bastianelli
  • Francesco Muia
  • Francisco Pedro
  • Fuminobu Takahashi
  • Gabriel Andres Piovano
  • Gabriele Honecker
  • Gauranga Samanta
  • Gian Paolo Vacca
  • Gianfranco Pradisi
  • Gianmassimo Tasinato
  • Giovanni Venturi
  • Ivonne Zavala
  • Jin U Kang
  • Jonathan Braden
  • Joseph Conlon
  • Laura Covi
  • Lorenzo Amati
  • Luca Santoni
  • Luca Visinelli
  • Lucrezia Ravera
  • Marco Garbini
  • Marco Scalisi
  • Masoumeh Aali-Javanangrouh
  • Maurizio Gasperini
  • Michele Cicoli
  • Mustafa Amin
  • Nicolò Masi
  • Po-Wen Chang
  • Pramod SHUKLA
  • Robert Brandenberger
  • Robert Graham
  • Roberto Casadio
  • Roberto Zucchini
  • Rouzbeh Allahverdi
  • Sadeghi Amirhossein
  • Satoshi Iso
  • Saurav Dwivedi
  • Simone Dresti
  • Susha Parameswaran
  • Sven Krippendorf
  • Theodor Bjorkmo
  • Veronica Guidetti
  • Victor Alfonzo Diaz
  • Viraf Mehta
  • Yuko Urakawa
  • Zhiwei Yang
Support