Ending Inflation and the Hot Big Bang: June 5-9, 2023

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Organized by:

  • Peter Adshead (University of Illinois)
  • Jonathan Heckman (University of Pennsylvania
  • Marilena Loverde (University of Washington)
  • Patrick Meade (C. N. Yang Institute for Theoretical Physics)
  • Scott Watson (Syracuse University)

This workshop is aimed at filling the gap in our cosmic history – from the end of inflation to the beginning of big bang nucleosynthesis. The recent observational progress in cosmology, gravitational wave physics, and discoveries in particle physics, as well as the important developments in the theoretical and numerical techniques for understanding non-equilibrium field dynamics makes the timing of this workshop optimal. At this opportune moment, this workshop will bring together distinct groups of researchers from the fields of non-perturbative field dynamics, high energy particle physics phenomenology, inflation and reheating to explore an important, but as yet poorly constrained period from our universe’s infancy.

Talk Schedule

Time Title Speaker Location
9:00am Breakfast N/A SCGP Cafe
9:30am Numerical Applications in Cosmology Daniel Figueroa SCGP 102
10:30am Coffee Break N/A SCGP Cafe
11:00am Nonlinear gravity and cosmological processes Tom Giblin SCGP 102
11:30am A Numerical UV Completion for Simulating Scalar Galileons Mary Gerhardinger SCGP 102
12:00pm Lunch N/A SCGP Cafe
2:00pm Vortex Formation in Dark Photons William East SCGP 102
2:30pm Detectable, defect-free dark photon dark matter Zach Weiner SCGP 102
3:00pm Tea N/A SCGP Cafe
3:30pm Discussion N/A SCGP 102
Time Title Speaker Location
9:00am Breakfast N/A SCGP Cafe
9:30am Early thermal history and Structure Formation Adrienne Erickcek SCGP 102
10:30am Coffee Break N/A SCGP Cafe
11:00am The cosmological evolution of Primordial Black Holes Valerio De Luca SCGP 102
11:30am Higgs Inflation and the Electroweak Gauge Sector Cyril Creque – Sarbinkowski SCGP 102
12:00pm Group Photo & Lunch N/A SCGP Cafe
2:00pm A spin on wave dark matter — small scale structure and a mass bound Mustafa Amin SCGP 102
2:30pm EMDEs, Axion Miniclusters, and WIMPs. Kuver Sinha SCGP 102
3:00pm Tea N/A SCGP Cafe
3:30pm Discussion N/A SCGP 102
Time Title Speaker Location
9:00am Breakfast N/A SCGP Cafe
9:30am Particle Cosmology Mark Trodden SCGP 102
10:30am Coffee Break N/A SCGP Cafe
11:00am Making Dark Matter from Gravity Andrew Long SCGP 102
11:30am Tidal deformations of black holes beyond GR Sam Wong SCGP 102
12:00pm Lunch N/A SCGP Cafe
2:00pm New Particles at Late Times Gilly Elor SCGP 102
2:30pm An SZ-Like Effect On Stochastic Gravitational Wave Backgrounds
 Marcell Howard
 SCGP 102
3:00pm Tea N/A SCGP Cafe
3:30pm Discussion N/A SCGP 102
5:30pm Banquet N/A SCGP 102
Time Title Speaker Location
9:00am Breakfast N/A SCGP Cafe
9:30am Ultralight axions in string cosmology Michele Cicoli SCGP 102
10:30am Coffee Break N/A SCGP Cafe
11:00am Dark Dimension Gravitons as Dark Matter Georges Obied SCGP 102
11:30am Axion-photon couplings and axion dark matter in string theory Naomi Gendler SCGP 102
12:00pm Lunch N/A SCGP Cafe
2:00pm Recent progress on string loop corrections to the low-energy effective action of string compactifications Manki Kim SCGP 102
2:30pm New Directions in String Cosmology Stephon Alexander SCGP 102
3:00pm Tea N/A SCGP Cafe
3:30pm Discussion N/A SCGP 102
Time Title Speaker Location
9:00am Breakfast N/A SCGP Cafe
9:30am Alternatives to Inflation and Dark Matter David Kaplan SCGP 102
10:30am Coffee Break N/A SCGP Cafe
11:00am Polarized condensates in wave dark matter Mudit Jain SCGP 102
11:30am Dynamical Chern-Simons and gravitational wave mediated particle production Tucker Manton SCGP 102
12:00pm Lunch N/A SCGP Cafe