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KITP Conference: Inflationary Reheating Meets Particle Physics Frontier
(Feb 3-6, 2020)
Coordinators: Peter Adshead, Raphael Flauger, Mark Trodden, and Scott Watson

Monday, Feb 03, 2020

Session Chair: Mark Trodden (UPenn)

8:50am Lisa Stewart (KITP CAO) Welcome[Aud][Cam]
9:00am Andrei Frolov (Simon Fraser) Intermittent non-Gaussianity Generated by Preheating[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
9:45am Brandon Melcher (Syracuse) Co-decaying Dark Matter and Early Universe Signatures[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
10:30am

Morning Break

11:00am Pearl Sandick (U of Utah) Dark Stars[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
11:45am Zach Weiner (U of Illinois) Constraining Axion Inflation with Gravitational Waves Across 29 Decades in Frequency[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
12:30pm

Lunch Break

Session Chair: Raphael Flauger (UCSD)

2:00pm Gary Shiu (U of Wisconsin) Chaos and Complementarity in Cosmological Spacetimes[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
2:45pm Mustafa Amin (Rice U) Nonperturbative Dynamics During and After Inflation[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
3:30pm

Afternoon Break

4:00pm Evangelos I. Sfakianakis
(Nikhef, Amsterdam & Leiden)
Field-space Effects in Preheating[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
4:45pm Alex Kusenko (UCLA) Primordial Black Holes[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
5:30pm

SHUTTLE TO BWSCI

Tuesday, Feb 04, 2020

Session Chair: Peter Adshead (U of Illinois)

9:00am Jonathan Heckman (UPenn) String Motivated Extra Sectors and Strong Coupling[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
9:45am Tommi Tenkanen (JHU) Probing the Early Universe with Isocurvature Perturbations[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
10:30am

Morning Break

11:00am Jorinde Van De Vis (DESY) Reheating after Higgs Inflation[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
11:45am Jeff Dror (UC Berkeley) Macroscopic Remnants of the Early Universe - Production and Detection[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
12:30pm

Lunch Break

Session Chair: Yanou Cui (UC Riverside)

2:00pm Rachel Rosen (Columbia U) Scalars, Shift Symmetries and de Sitter[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
2:45pm Stefano Profumo (UCSC) The Primordial Black Holes Variations[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
3:30pm

Afternoon Break

4:00pm David Morrissey (TRIUMF) Looking (far) Back in Time with Gravitational Waves from Cosmic Strings[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
4:45pm Andrew Long (Rice U) Gravitational Production of Dark Matter at the End of Inflation[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
5:30pm

RECEPTION

6:00pm

SPECIAL EVENTS DINNER

8:00pm

SHUTTLE TO BWSCI

Wednesday, Feb 05, 2020

Session Chair: Peter Adshead (U of Illinois)

9:00am TBA TBA
9:45am Kathryn Zurek (Caltech) Spacetime Fluctuations in Ads/CFT[Aud][Cam]
10:30am

Morning Break

11:00am Jessie Shelton (U of Illinois) Hidden Thermal Histories[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
11:45am Ema Dimastrogiovanni
(New South Wales U)
Inflation predicts a stochastic gravitational waves background[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
12:30pm

Lunch Break

Session Chair: Scott Watson (Syracuse)

2:00pm Jay Hubisz (Syracuse) Brane Cosmology From Symmetry Principles[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
2:45pm Tom Giblin (Kenyon College) The Role of Gravity during Preheating[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
3:30pm

Afternoon Break

4:00pm Adrienne Erickcek (UNC) The Early Universe's Imprint on Dark Matter[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
4:45pm Dani Figueroa (IFIC) Probing the 'primordial dark ages' with gravitational waves. Implications for reheating.[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
5:30pm

RECEPTION

6:00pm

SPECIAL EVENTS DINNER

8:00pm

SHUTTLE TO BWSCI

Thursday, Feb 06, 2020

Session Chair: Raphael Flauger (UCSD)

9:00am Hai-bo Yu (UC Riverside) Self-Interacting Dark Matter[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
9:45am Lauren Pearce
(Penn State New Kensington)
Phenomenology of Fermion Production During Axion Inflation[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
10:30am

Morning Break

11:00am Sarah Shandera (Penn State) Dark Black Holes[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
11:45am Adam Solomon (CMU) Superfluids and the Cosmological Constant Problem[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
12:30pm

Lunch Break

Session Chair: Yanou Cui (UC Riverside)

2:00pm Daniel Green (UCSD) Signatures of Light Relics in the CMB and LSS[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
2:45pm Dick Bond, Jonathan Braden
(CITA)
webskying the Universe in search of Beyond-the-SMC[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
3:45pm

Afternoon Break

4:00pm Graham White (TRIUMF) The See Saw Mechanism: Using Cosmology to Reach Across a Desert[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
4:45pm Richard Easther
Nathan Musoke
(Auckland)
Lighting the Dark: Nonlinear Dynamics and the Primordial Dark Age[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
5:30pm

CONFERENCE END SHUTTLE TO BWSCI *Also available to SB Airport and SB Airbus, Goleta location. (See Registration Desk BEFORE THURSDAY to sign up.)