Presentations
1.
Raphael Bousso, University of California, Berkeley
Why Now, and Why Comparable: A Multiverse Explanation of the Dark Matter-Baryon Coincidence

August 23, 2014 (3:00 PM - 3:25 PM)

PDF, 4.41 MB
2.
Robert Brandenberger, McGill University
Challenges for Inflationary Cosmology

August 23, 2014 (4:50 PM - 5:15 PM)

PDF, 1.21 MB
3.
Cora Dvorkin, Institute for Advanced Study
Probing fundamental physics with CMB B-modes

August 22, 2014 (11:35 AM - 12:00 PM)

PPTX, 2.62 MB
4.
Richard Easther, University of Auckland
Multifield Inflation -- Consequences and Possibilities

August 22, 2014 (2:45 PM - 3:10 PM)

PDF, 10.87 MB
5.
Raphael Flauger, Institute for Advanced Study
Toward an Understanding of Foreground Emission in the BICEP2 Region

August 22, 2014 (11:00 AM - 11:25 AM)

PDF, 4.07 MB
6.
Daniel Green, CITA
Disorder in the Early Universe

August 23, 2014 (11:50 AM - 12:15 PM)
7.
Rich Holman, Carnegie Mellon
EFT Beyond the Horizon: Stochastic Inflation and how Primordial Fluctuations go Classical

August 23, 2014 (12:25 PM - 12:50 PM)

PDF, 2.54 MB
8.
Anna Ijjas, Princeton University
Primordial perturbations around non-inflationary backgrounds

August 22, 2014 (4:35 PM - 5:00 PM)
9.
Justin Khoury, University of Pennsylvania
Ward Identities in Cosmology

August 23, 2014 (5:25 PM - 5:50 PM)

PDF, 25.01 MB
10.
Will Kinney, SUNY, Buffalo
BICEP, Inflation, and Alternatives to Inflation

August 24, 2014 (11:50 AM - 12:15 PM)

PDF, 0.16 MB
11.
Matt Kleban, New York University
Superplanckian Field Ranges

August 23, 2014 (10:35 AM - 11:00 AM)

PDF, 0.35 MB
12.
Albion Lawrence, Brandeis University
The effective field theory of axion monodromy

August 22, 2014 (9:45 AM - 10:10 AM)

PDF, 4.01 MB
13.
Eugene Lim, King's College London
Quantifying quantum vs classical correlations in the primordial perturbations

August 22, 2014 (2:10 PM - 2:35 PM)

PDF, 3.3 MB
14.
Emil J. Martinec, University of Chicago
Quantum gravity and inflation -- lessons from 2d toy models

August 24, 2014 (10:35 AM - 11:00 AM)

PDF, 0.56 MB
15.
Liam McAllister, Cornell University
Axion Alignment Mechanisms for Large-Field Inflation

August 23, 2014 (10:00 AM - 10:25 AM)
16.
Hiranya Peiris, University College London
Constraints on primordial non-Gaussianity from 800,000 photometric quasars

August 23, 2014 (3:35 PM - 4:00 PM)

PDF, 9.75 MB
17.
Leonardo Senatore, Stanford University
The Effective Field Theory of Large Scale Structures: how to find more modes to probe Inflation

August 24, 2014 (10:00 AM - 10:25 AM)

PDF, 10 MB
18.
Eva Silverstein, Stanford University
Systematics of Axion Monodromy

August 22, 2014 (9:10 AM - 9:35 AM)

PDF, 0.93 MB
19.
Paul Steinhardt, Princeton University
TBA

August 22, 2014 (4:00 PM - 4:25 PM)
20.
Mark Trodden, University of Pennsylvania
Holographic Cosmology Beyond Inflation

August 24, 2014 (12:25 PM - 12:50 PM)

PDF, 5.56 MB