Workshop: Inflation and the dark sector — Current challenges and future perspectives, June 3-7, 2019


Monday 3.6

9:00 - 9:40      Jose-Ramon Espinosa Cosmological Signatures of the SM Vacuum Instability
9:40 - 10:20      Shinta Kasuya Simple flavon stabilization without domain wall problem
10:20 - 11:00      Coffee  
11:00 - 11:40      Mark Hindmarsh Gravitational waves from phase transitions: recent results from modelling and simulation
11:40 - 14:00      Lunch break       
14:00 - 14:40      Eemeli Tomberg Planck scale black hole dark matter from Higgs inflation
14:40 - 15:20      Daniel Cutting Generation of vorticity in strong phase transitions
15:20 -      Coffee     

Tuesday 4.6

9:00 - 9:40      Kimmo Tuominen Direct detection of light dark matter
9:40 - 10:20      Tommi Tenkanen Spectator Dark Matter
10:20 - 11:00      Coffee     
11:00 - 11:40      Lauri Niemi Electroweak thermodynamics on the lattice: multi-Higgs edition
11:20 - 14:00      Lunch break          
14:00 - 14:40      Javier Rubio Scale symmetry, the Higgs and the Cosmos
14:40 - 15:20      Masahiro Kawasaki Primordial black hole formation in Affleck-Dine mechanism
15:20 -      Coffee     

Wednesday 5.6

9:00 - 9:40      Tommi Markkanen Dark Energy from Inflation and Electroweak Symmetry Breaking
9:40 - 10:20      David Weir Cosmic necklaces: results from recent simulations and implications for cosmology
10:20 - 11:00      Coffee  
11:00 - 11:40      Matti Heikinheimo Direct and Indirect probes of pseudo-Goldstone dark matter
11:40 - 12:20      David Mulryne Numerically calculating observables from inflation and reheating
12:20 - 13.00      Coffee and snacks  
15:00 - 18:30      Afternoon excursion (A cruise on the lake with a late lunch/early dinner buffee)

Thursday 6.6

9:00 - 9:40      Gerasimos Rigopoulos Consistent perturbations in ultra-slow roll with gravitational backreaction
9:40 - 10:20      Toyokazu Sekiguchi Aspects of strongly interacting massive particle
10:20 - 11:00      Coffee  
11:00 - 11:40      Oliver Gould Strong electroweak phase transitions and new infrared physics
11: 40 - 14:00      Lunch break       
14:00 - 14:40      Syksy Räsänen The gravity track of Higgs inflation
14:40 - 15:20      Asier Lopez-Eiguren Axion String Evolution
15:20 -      Coffee     

Friday 7.6.:

9:00 - 9:40      Vincent Vennin Can we show that cosmological structures are of quantum mechanical origin
9:40 - 10:20      Dani Figueroa Inconsistency of an inflationary sector coupled only (minimally) to gravity
10:20 - 11:00      Coffee  
11:00 - 11:40      Jim Cline Astrophysical and collider implications of pseudo-Goldstone boson dark matter
11:40 - 11:50      Organizers Concluding remarks
11:50 - 14:00      Lunch