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October 12, 2015 - Monday
9:30 AM - 9:40 AMWelcome
 Morning sessionChair: Wayne Hu
9:40 AM - 10:05 AMRachel A. Rosen, Columbia University in the City of New York
On Recent Developments in Partially Massless Gravity
10:15 AM - 10:40 AMClaudia de Rham, Case Western Reserve University
Non-trivial vacua [PDF, 3.62 MB]
10:50 AM - 11:20 AMCoffee break
11:20 AM - 11:45 AMMasahide Yamaguchi, Tokyo Institute of Technology
Perturbations of Cosmological and Black Hole Solutions in Massive gravity and Bi-gravity [PDF, 0.91 MB]
11:55 AM - 12:20 PMTeruaki Suyama, Research Center for the Early Universe, University of Tokyo
Spontaneous scalarization: asymmetron as dark matter [PDF, 1.41 MB]
12:30 PM - 12:40 PMGroup photo
12:40 PM - 2:40 PMLunch / Posters & Discussion
 Afternoon sessionChair: Lian-Tao Wang
2:40 PM - 3:05 PMGregory Gabadadze, New York University
A New Approach to Big Cosmological Constant and Dark Energy [PDF, 0.32 MB]
3:15 PM - 3:40 PMGeorge Zahariade, University of California, Davis
A manifestly local theory of vacuum energy sequestering [PPTX, 0.17 MB]
3:50 PM - 4:30 PMCoffee break
4:30 PM - 4:55 PMKurt Hinterbichler, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
A Stueckelberg approach to quadratic curvature gravity and its decoupling limits [PDF, 9.73 MB]

October 13, 2015 - Tuesday
 Morning sessionChair: Hayato Motohashi
9:40 AM - 10:05 AMDavid Langlois, Astroparticle and Cosmology Laboratory, Paris
Exploring theories beyond Horndeski [PDF, 3.4 MB]
10:15 AM - 10:40 AMFilippo Vernizzi, CEA
A unifying description of dark energy [PDF, 6.2 MB]
10:50 AM - 11:20 AMCoffee break
11:20 AM - 11:45 AMKazuya Koyama, Insitute of Cosmology and Gravitation, University of Portsmouth
Phenomenology of beyond Horndeski theories [PPTX, 2.37 MB]
11:55 AM - 12:20 PMGustavo Niz, University of Guanajuato, Mexico
On the Vainshtein mechanism [PDF, 1.13 MB]
12:30 PM - 2:30 PMLunch / Posters & Discussion
 Afternoon sessionChair: Scott Dodelson
2:30 PM - 2:55 PMLam Hui, Columbia University
Symmetries in gravity and large scale structure
3:05 PM - 3:30 PMGianmassimo Tasinato, Swansea University
Vector fields, galileons, and modified gravity [PDF, 27.68 MB]
3:40 PM - 4:20 PMCoffee break
4:20 PM - 4:45 PMShinji Mukohyama, Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto University
Massive gravity and cosmology [PDF, 1.4 MB]

October 14, 2015 - Wednesday
 Morning sessionChair: Austin Joyce
9:40 AM - 10:05 AMAlberto Nicolis, Columbia University in the City of New York
Icosahedral inflation [PDF, 6.89 MB]
10:15 AM - 10:40 AMCedric Deffayet, CNRS
P-form Galileons
10:50 AM - 11:20 AMCoffee break
11:20 AM - 11:45 AMNemanja Kaloper, University of California, Davis
Lambda: The Sequester
11:45 AM - 11:55 AMClosing