October 5, 2019 - Saturday
| Registration and Continental Breakfast | |
| Conference openingChair: Rocky Kolb | |
| Simon White, Max-Planck-Institut fuer Astrophysik Cosmic controversies: boon or bane? [PDF, 17.79 MB] | |
| PARALLEL SESSIONS | |
| H0 Tension (Room 621)Chair: Kimmy Wu | |
| Lloyd Knox, UC Davis The Hubble Hunter’s Guide [PDF, 4.08 MB] | |
| Jo Dunkley, Princeton How ground-based CMB data can weigh in | |
| Barry Madore, Carnegie Observatories The Tip of the Red Giant Branch (TRGB) Distance Scale [PDF, 36.86 MB] | |
| Maya Fishbach, KICP Cosmology with Gravitational-Wave Standard Sirens | |
| Frederic Courbin, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL, Switzerland) H0 Measurements with Strong Gravitational Lensing Time Delays [PDF, 11.08 MB] | |
| Daniel Scolnic, Duke University New Constraints on H0 and w from Large Supernova Surveys | |
| Jose Luis Bernal, Johns Hopkins University The Cosmic Expansion History from Line-Intensity Mapping [PDF, 10.81 MB] | |
| Francis-Yan Cyr-Racine, University of New Mexico Lessons on solving the Hubble tension [PDF, 9.34 MB] | |
| Harry Desmond, University of Oxford The impact of screened fifth forces on the local distance ladder [PDF, 0.58 MB] | |
| Marcelle Soares-Santos, Brandeis University DESGW: Results from the DES Standard Sirens Program and Lessons Learned for Cosmology in the LSST era | |
| Dark Matter and Structure Formation (Room 100)Chair: Chihway Chang | |
| Lam Hui, Columbia Ultra-light axion dark matter | |
| Annika Peter, Ohio State University Flipping the script on tests of CDM with satellite galaxies | |
| Yashar Hezaveh, Stanford University Probing the particle nature of dark matter with strong gravitational lensing | |
| Mark Vogelsberger, MIT Simulating structure formation in SIDM [PDF, 16.82 MB] | |
| Keith Bechtol, University of Wisconsin-Madison Impact of the Large Magellanic Cloud on the Full-sky Milky Way Satellite Population [PDF, 18.38 MB] | |
| Alyson Brooks Re-Examining Astrophysical Constraints on the Dark Matter Model | |
| Thejs Brinckmann Disentangling Self-Interacting Dark Matter from baryonic physics | |
| Alain Blanchard, IRAP SZ Clusters and the amplitude of matter fluctuations [PDF, 2.12 MB] | |
| Philip Mocz, Princeton University First Star-Forming Structures in Fuzzy Cosmic Filaments [PDF, 8.07 MB] | |
| Lunch | |
| H0 Tension PanelModerator: Wendy FreedmanVIDEO | |
| Wendy Freedman, University of Chicago Ho Tension Panel [PDF, 6.85 MB] | |
| Adam Riess, Johns Hopkins University TBA | |
| George Efstathiou, Cambridge University TBA | |
| Licia Verde, Barcelona The H0 game: an end to end test [PDF, 13.26 MB] | |
| Break | |
| Dark Matter and Structure Formation PanelModerator: Andrey KravtsovVIDEO | |
| Andrey Kravtsov, KICP TBA | |
| Bhuvnesh Jain, Penn TBA | |
| Manoj Kaplinghat, UC Irvine Is a model beyond CDM needed to describe structure formation? [PDF, 1.8 MB] | |
| Risa Wechsler, Stanford TBA | |
| Reception and Poster Viewing Poster |
October 6, 2019 - Sunday
| Continental Breakfast | |
| PARALLEL SESSIONS | |
| Cosmic Acceleration (Room 621)Chair: Macarena Lagos | |
| Clare Burrage, Nottingham Screening dark energy and modified gravity [PDF, 1.64 MB] | |
| Alessandra Silvestri, Leiden University What can cosmology tell us about gravity? [PDF, 16.08 MB] | |
| Gary Bernstein Cosmological structure in the evolved Universe - DES measurements and the accuracy of future measures | |
| Alexie Leauthaud, UC Santa Cruz Lensing is Low on Small Scales for LRGs | |
| Chihway Chang, KICP Precise and Accurate Cosmology in the Next Decade [PDF, 60.14 MB] | |
| Robert Caldwell, Dartmouth Dark matter and Gravitational Waves | |
| Hendrik Hildebrandt, Ruhr-University Bochum KiDS+VIKING: Cosmic shear tomography with optical+infrared data [PDF, 8.78 MB] | |
| Ohkyung Kwon, Astronomy & Astrophysics, KICP Direct Laboratory Probes of Planck Scale Correlations in the Space-Time Vacuum [PDF, 28 MB] | |
| Alexander Krolewski, UC Berkeley Measuring the amplitude of density fluctuations to z~2 using unWISE [PDF, 6.63 MB] | |
| Jurgen Mifsud, Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute Current status of an interacting dark sector with cosmological observations [PDF, 9.12 MB] | |
| Inflation (Room 100)Chair: Marco Raveri | |
| Andrei Linde, Stanford University Inflation after Planck [PDF, 38.93 MB] | |
| Anna Ijjas, Harvard University And now for something completely different | |
| Raphael Flauger, UC San Diego On the robustness of inflation to inhomogeneities | |
| Mustafa Amin, Rice University Nonlinear dynamics after inflation [PDF, 58.6 MB] | |
| Cumrun Vafa, Harvard Swampland Perspective on Early and Late Time Cosmology’ [PDF, 4.83 MB] | |
| Peter Adshead, University of Illinois The end of inflation [PDF, 4.41 MB] | |
| Craig Hogan, KICP Pattern of perturbations from a coherent inflationary horizon [PDF, 5.52 MB] | |
| Samuel Passaglia, KICP Primordial Black Hole Dark Matter: Slow-roll inflation and the Higgs Instability Mechanism | |
| Zhong-Zhi Xianyu, Harvard University Recent progress in cosmological collider physics | |
| Lunch | |
| Cosmic Acceleration PanelModerator: Joshua FriemanVIDEO | |
| Josh Frieman, KICP TBA | |
| Andreas Albrecht, UC Davis TBA | |
| Saul Perlmutter, UC Berkeley TBA | |
| Rachel Rosen, Columbia Panel Presentation [PDF, 1.15 MB] | |
| Break | |
| Inflation PanelModerator: Wayne HuVIDEO | |
| Wayne Hu, KICP TBA | |
| Marc Kamionkowski, Johns Hopkins University Inflation [PDF, 25.07 MB] | |
| Justin Khoury, Penn Inflation, Search Optimization, and Dynamical Criticality [PDF, 31.47 MB] | |
| Hirosi Ooguri, Caltech/KIPMU Tour of the Swampland [PDF, 1.06 MB] | |
| Reception and BanquetAfter-dinner Speaker: Marc DavisEckhardt Research Center | |
| Marc Davis, UC Berkeley TBA |
October 7, 2019 - Monday
| Continental Breakfast | |
| PARALLEL SESSIONS | |
| Dark Matter Particles (Room 621)Chair:Yonatan Kahn | |
| Elena Aprile, Columbia The Next Step in the Search for WIMPs with Noble Liquid Targets [PDF, 51.13 MB] | |
| Tracy Slatyer, MIT What indirect searches teach us about particle dark matter [PDF, 4.64 MB] | |
| Rouven Essig, Stony Brook University The next decade in the Direct Detection of Sub-GeV Dark Matter [PDF, 19.09 MB] | |
| Constantinos Skordis, Czech Academy of Sciences New gravitational degrees of freedom as a proxy for dark matter | |
| Andrew Long, Michigan Does dark matter interact with more than gravity? [PDF, 23.3 MB] | |
| Jens Niemeyer, Göttingen Granules, solitons, and miniclusters: axion-like particles gone nonlinear | |
| Marco Regis, University of Turin and INFN Particle dark matter searches via cross-correlation between gravitational lensing and gamma rays [PDF, 6.57 MB] | |
| Cora Dvorkin, Harvard University Novel Probes of Dark Matter [PDF, 3.46 MB] | |
| Juan Garcia-Bellido, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid Primordial Black Holes and the Nature of Dark Matter [PDF, 14.22 MB] | |
| Particle Physics and Cosmology (Room 100)Chair: Craig Hogan | |
| Richard Bond, CITA Webskying the Universe Searching for Beyond-the-SMc [PDF, 53.3 MB] | |
| Jeff McMahon, Michigan The Future of CMB Cosmology | |
| ChangHoon Hahn, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab Constraining Neutrino Mass with the Bispectrum: Breaking Parameter Degeneracies [PDF, 9.06 MB] | |
| Glenn Starkman, Case Western Reserve University Between a rock and a black hole: looking for dense chunks of dark matter [PDF, 7.66 MB] | |
| Arka Banerjee, Stanford University The signatures of self-interacting dark matter on cluster density profile and subhalo distributions [PDF, 4.17 MB] | |
| Albert Stebbins, Fermilab/KICP Could Supermassive Black Holes be Primordial? [PDF, 15.68 MB] | |
| Yu-Dai Tsai, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory Resonant Self-Interacting Dark Matter from Hidden QCD | |
| Marius Millea, University of California, Berkeley The Hubble Hunter's Guide 2: Sounds of darkness [PDF, 1.21 MB] | |
| Sam McDermott, Fermilab Dark Radiation and Superheavy Dark Matter from Black Hole Domination [PDF, 6.28 MB] | |
| Tristan Smith, Swarthmore College Oscillating cosmological scalar fields and a potential resolution to the Hubble tension [PDF, 7.35 MB] | |
| Antonella Palmese, Fermilab Measuring the Hubble constant with gravitational wave black-hole mergers and galaxy surveys [PDF, 14.78 MB] | |
| Ethan Nadler, Stanford/KIPAC Milky Way Satellites: Probes of Dark Matter Microphysics [PDF, 15.71 MB] | |
| Jessica Muir, Stanford Checking the consistency of growth and expansion with the Dark Energy Survey [PDF, 12.34 MB] | |
| Lunch | |
| Dark-Matter Particles PanelModerator: Rocky KolbVIDEO | |
| Rocky Kolb, KICP Dark Matter Particles Panel [PDF, 1.16 MB] | |
| Tim Tait, UC Irvine Are WIMPs Dead? [PDF, 24.39 MB] | |
| Graciela Gelmini, UCLA Dark Matter Particles? WIMPs? [PDF, 13.06 MB] | |
| Kathryn Zurek, Berkeley TBA | |
| Break | |
| Tools PanelModerator: John CarlstromVIDEO | |
| John Carlstrom, KICP TBA | |
| Roger Blandford, Stanford Cosmic Controversies: "Tools" [PDF, 2.78 MB] | |
| Jonathan Feng, UC Irvine What tools are critical for progress in dark matter in the coming decades? [PDF, 23.72 MB] | |
| Rashid Sunyaev, MPIA TBA | |
| Dinner | |
| Multiverse PanelModerator: Jeffrey HarveyVIDEO | |
| Jefferey Harvey, KICP TBA | |
| Alan Guth, MIT The Multiverse [PDF, 1.32 MB] | |
| Andrei Linde, Stanford University Universe or Multiverse? [PDF, 13.75 MB] | |
| David Albert, Columbia TBA | |
| Joseph Silk, IAP Paris/JHU/Oxford TBA |
October 8, 2019 - Tuesday
| Continental Breakfast | |
| Best of posters presentations | |
| Louise Breuval, Paris Observatory, LESIA The Cepheid Leavitt law from Gaia DR2 parallaxes of resolved companions | |
| Weikang Lin, North Carolina State University Investigating the Hubble Constant Tension - Two Numbers in the Standard Cosmological Model [PDF, 1.28 MB] | |
| Minsu Park, Princeton University Lambda CDM or self-interacting neutrinos? How CMB data can tell the two models apart [PDF, 2.21 MB] | |
| Youngsoo Park, Kavli IPMU Concordance cosmology? | |
| Tommi Tenkanen, Johns Hopkins University Spectator dark matter | |
| Georgios Valogiannis, Cornell University An Accurate Model for Redshiift Space Clustering of Biased Tracers in Modified Gravity [PDF, 2.92 MB] | |
| Break | |
| Particle Physics & Cosmology PanelModerator: Michael TurnerVIDEO | |
| Michael S Turner, Kavli Foundation/KICP at UChicago TBA | |
| Nima Arkani-Hamed, IAS TBA | |
| Gian Giudice, CERN TBA | |
| Lisa Randall, Harvard TBA | |
| Convergence or Disruption?Chair: Michael Turner | |
| Joseph Silk, IAP Paris/JHU/Oxford Astro view | |
| Joseph Lykken, Fermilab Particle view [PDF, 25.2 MB] | |
| Conference adjourns |
