| Arrival and Welcome | |
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| 10:00 | Morning coffee | |
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| Dark Energy and Modified Gravity | |
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| 10:30 | Status Report | Rachel Bean (Chair) |
| 11:00 | The dynamical viability of scalar-tensor theories
| Nishant Agarwal |
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| 11:30 | Non-linear growth in modified gravity | Istvan Laszlo |
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| 12:00 | Lunch break | |
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| Topological Defects | |
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| 13:00 | Status report | Tanmay Vachaspati (Chair) |
| 13:30 | Metastable Kinks in the Orbifold | Manuel Toharia |
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| 14:00 | Coffee Break | |
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| Inflation and Primordial Perturbations | |
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| 14:30 | Status Report | C. Armendariz-Picon (Chair) |
| 15:00 | Preheating in Derivatively-Coupled Inflaton Models | Eric West |
| 15:30 | How well constrained is the primordial power spectrum? | Brian Powell |
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| 16:00 | Tea break | |
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| 16:30 | Sub-horizon corrections to cosmological perturbations | Michele Fontanini |
| 17:00 | Non-commutative CMB | Anosh Joseph |
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| Departure | |
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| 18:00 | Dinner | |