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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 (Universitร  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
  • Nicolรฒ 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
  • Monday, 18 September
    • Registration and introduction Aula A

      Aula A

      University of Bologna, Department of Physics and Astronomy

      via Irnerio 46
    • Finelli: Current constraints on cosmic inflation and prospects for the next generation of probes Aula A

      Aula A

      University of Bologna, Department of Physics and Astronomy

      via Irnerio 46
    • Burgess: Power counting and inflation Aula A

      Aula A

      University of Bologna, Department of Physics and Astronomy

      via Irnerio 46
      slides
    • Discussion Aula A

      Aula A

      University of Bologna, Department of Physics and Astronomy

      via Irnerio 46
    • 11:00
      Coffee break Aula A

      Aula A

      University of Bologna, Department of Physics and Astronomy

      via Irnerio 46
    • Achucarro: Multifield inflation Aula A

      Aula A

      University of Bologna, Department of Physics and Astronomy

      via Irnerio 46
    • Tasinato: Primordial Tensor non-Gaussianity and Symmetry Breaking during Inflation Aula A

      Aula A

      University of Bologna, Department of Physics and Astronomy

      via Irnerio 46
      slides
    • Discussion Aula A

      Aula A

      University of Bologna, Department of Physics and Astronomy

      via Irnerio 46
    • 13:00
      Lunch Aula A

      Aula A

      University of Bologna, Department of Physics and Astronomy

      via Irnerio 46
    • Scalisi: Inflation and Dark Energy from an anti-D3 brane Aula A

      Aula A

      University of Bologna, Department of Physics and Astronomy

      via Irnerio 46
      slides
    • Westphal: The Flattened Road Toward Cosmic Acceleration in String Theory Aula A

      Aula A

      University of Bologna, Department of Physics and Astronomy

      via Irnerio 46
      slides
    • Discussion Aula A

      Aula A

      University of Bologna, Department of Physics and Astronomy

      via Irnerio 46
    • 16:00
      Coffee break Aula A

      Aula A

      University of Bologna, Department of Physics and Astronomy

      via Irnerio 46
    • Covi: de Sitter and inflation in SUGRA Aula A

      Aula A

      University of Bologna, Department of Physics and Astronomy

      via Irnerio 46
      slides
    • Marsh: A new class of de Sitter string vacua Aula A

      Aula A

      University of Bologna, Department of Physics and Astronomy

      via Irnerio 46
      slides
    • Discussion Aula A

      Aula A

      University of Bologna, Department of Physics and Astronomy

      via Irnerio 46
    • 18:00
      Reception Ristorante "Caffe' della Corte", Corte Isolani, Bologna

      Ristorante "Caffe' della Corte", Corte Isolani, Bologna
  • Tuesday, 19 September
    • Brandenberger: Update on String Gas Cosmology Aula A

      Aula A

      University of Bologna, Department of Physics and Astronomy

      via Irnerio 46
      slides
    • Germani: On primordial black holes generation from single field inflation Aula A

      Aula A

      University of Bologna, Department of Physics and Astronomy

      via Irnerio 46
      slides
    • Discussion Aula A

      Aula A

      University of Bologna, Department of Physics and Astronomy

      via Irnerio 46
    • 11:00
      Coffee break Aula A

      Aula A

      University of Bologna, Department of Physics and Astronomy

      via Irnerio 46
    • Copeland: Scaling behaviour in string cosmology Aula A

      Aula A

      University of Bologna, Department of Physics and Astronomy

      via Irnerio 46
      slides
    • Amin: Self-Resonance and the Equation of State for Cosmological Scalar Fields Aula A

      Aula A

      University of Bologna, Department of Physics and Astronomy

      via Irnerio 46
      slides
    • Discussion Aula A

      Aula A

      University of Bologna, Department of Physics and Astronomy

      via Irnerio 46
    • 13:00
      Lunch Aula A

      Aula A

      University of Bologna, Department of Physics and Astronomy

      via Irnerio 46
    • Krippendorf: Oscillons from String Moduli: Parametric Resonance Aula A

      Aula A

      University of Bologna, Department of Physics and Astronomy

      via Irnerio 46
    • Muia: Oscillons from String Moduli: Tachyonic Oscillations Aula A

      Aula A

      University of Bologna, Department of Physics and Astronomy

      via Irnerio 46
      slides
    • Discussion Aula A

      Aula A

      University of Bologna, Department of Physics and Astronomy

      via Irnerio 46
    • 16:00
      Coffee break Aula A

      Aula A

      University of Bologna, Department of Physics and Astronomy

      via Irnerio 46
    • Kang: CMB constraints on the inflaton couplings during reheating in alpha-attractor model of inflation Aula A

      Aula A

      University of Bologna, Department of Physics and Astronomy

      via Irnerio 46
      slides
    • Hebecker: Dynamical Phase Decomposition in Axionic Potentials Aula A

      Aula A

      University of Bologna, Department of Physics and Astronomy

      via Irnerio 46
      slides
    • Discussion Aula A

      Aula A

      University of Bologna, Department of Physics and Astronomy

      via Irnerio 46
  • Wednesday, 20 September
    • Garbini and Masi: Recent results in direct and indirect dark matter searches Aula A

      Aula A

      University of Bologna, Department of Physics and Astronomy

      via Irnerio 46
      slides
    • Allahverdi: Light Nonthermal Dark Matter and Baryon-Dark Matter Coincidence Aula A

      Aula A

      University of Bologna, Department of Physics and Astronomy

      via Irnerio 46
      slides
    • Discussion Aula A

      Aula A

      University of Bologna, Department of Physics and Astronomy

      via Irnerio 46
    • 11:00
      Coffee break Aula A

      Aula A

      University of Bologna, Department of Physics and Astronomy

      via Irnerio 46
    • Conlon: Searches for Axions and Dark Matter with X-Ray Astronomy Aula A

      Aula A

      University of Bologna, Department of Physics and Astronomy

      via Irnerio 46
      slides
    • Takahashi: The ALP miracle Aula A

      Aula A

      University of Bologna, Department of Physics and Astronomy

      via Irnerio 46
      slides
    • Discussion Aula A

      Aula A

      University of Bologna, Department of Physics and Astronomy

      via Irnerio 46
    • 13:00
      Lunch Aula A

      Aula A

      University of Bologna, Department of Physics and Astronomy

      via Irnerio 46
    • Mehta: Constraining Axion (Monodromy) Dark Matter Aula A

      Aula A

      University of Bologna, Department of Physics and Astronomy

      via Irnerio 46
      slides
    • Zavala: D-brane Scalar-Tensor Theories and the Thermal Dark Matter Scenario Aula A

      Aula A

      University of Bologna, Department of Physics and Astronomy

      via Irnerio 46
      slides
    • Discussion Aula A

      Aula A

      University of Bologna, Department of Physics and Astronomy

      via Irnerio 46
    • 16:00
      Coffee break Aula A

      Aula A

      University of Bologna, Department of Physics and Astronomy

      via Irnerio 46
    • Parallel session on "Inflation" Aula B

      Aula B

      University of Bologna, Department of Physics and Astronomy
      Conveners: Bjorkmo, Dresti, Santoni, Urakawa
      • 1
        Dresti
        Slides
      • 2
        Urakawa
      • 3
        Santoni
        Slides
      • 4
        Bjorkmo
        Slides
      • 5
        Discussion
    • Parallel session on "Post-Inflation" Aula A

      Aula A

      University of Bologna, Department of Physics and Astronomy
      Conveners: Braden, Chang, Diaz, Hajkarim
      slides
    • Dinner Ristorante "Donatello", via Righi 8, Bologna

      Ristorante "Donatello", via Righi 8, Bologna
  • Thursday, 21 September
    • Quevedo: Global Orientifolded Quivers with Inflation Aula A

      Aula A

      University of Bologna, Department of Physics and Astronomy

      via Irnerio 46
    • Ciupke: Fibre inflation models and moduli-space sizes Aula A

      Aula A

      University of Bologna, Department of Physics and Astronomy

      via Irnerio 46
      slides
    • Discussion Aula A

      Aula A

      University of Bologna, Department of Physics and Astronomy

      via Irnerio 46
    • 11:00
      Coffee break Aula A

      Aula A

      University of Bologna, Department of Physics and Astronomy

      via Irnerio 46
    • Maharana: Post inflationary Cosmology and Inflationary Observables in String Models Aula A

      Aula A

      University of Bologna, Department of Physics and Astronomy

      via Irnerio 46
    • Iso: A possibility of QCD-induced EWSB in the early unverse Aula A

      Aula A

      University of Bologna, Department of Physics and Astronomy

      via Irnerio 46
      slides
    • Discussion Aula A

      Aula A

      University of Bologna, Department of Physics and Astronomy

      via Irnerio 46
    • 13:00
      Lunch Aula A

      Aula A

      University of Bologna, Department of Physics and Astronomy

      via Irnerio 46
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