Is cosmology on the verge of a fundamental description of the Universe from a tiny fraction of a second after the big bang until today based upon LCDM, or is it on the cusp of major disruption and re-organization of our understanding of the Universe?
Our cosmology conclave will focus on eight cosmic controversies and address how best to resolve them.
Our cosmology conclave will focus on eight cosmic controversies and address how best to resolve them.
Invited Speakers
| David Albert Columbia | Andreas Albrecht UC Davis | Nima Arkani-Hamed IAS |
| Roger Blandford Stanford | John Carlstrom KICP | Marc Davis UC Berkeley |
| George Efstathiou Cambridge University | Jonathan Feng UC Irvine | Wendy Freedman University of Chicago |
| Josh Frieman KICP | Graciela Gelmini UCLA | Gian Giudice CERN |
| Alan Guth MIT | Jefferey Harvey KICP | Wayne Hu KICP |
| Bhuvnesh Jain Penn | Marc Kamionkowski Johns Hopkins University | Manoj Kaplinghat UC Irvine |
| Justin Khoury Penn | Rocky Kolb KICP | Andrey Kravtsov KICP |
| Andrei Linde Stanford University | Joseph Lykken Fermilab | Hirosi Ooguri Caltech/KIPMU |
| Saul Perlmutter UC Berkeley | Lisa Randall Harvard | Adam Riess Johns Hopkins University |
| Rachel Rosen Columbia | Joseph Silk IAP Paris/JHU/Oxford | Rashid Sunyaev MPIA |
| Tim Tait UC Irvine | Licia Verde Barcelona | Risa Wechsler Stanford |
| Simon White Max-Planck-Institut fuer Astrophysik | Kathryn Zurek Berkeley |
Organizing Committee
| John Carlstrom KICP | Chihway Chang KICP | Wendy Freedman University of Chicago |
| Josh Frieman KICP | Rocky Kolb KICP |
Location
Downtown Chicago
450 N Cityfront Plaza Dr,
Chicago, IL 60611
