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October 13, 2016 - Thursday
9:00 AM - 10:00 AMShuttle: Hotel to KICP
10:00 AM - 10:30 AMBreakfast
10:30 AM - 11:15 AMGordon Krnjaic, Fermilab
Discovering or falsifying light thermal dark matter [PDF, 21.41 MB]
11:15 AM - 12:00 PMTongyan Lin, University of California, Berkeley
Exploring the low mass frontier in dark matter direct detection [PDF, 10.76 MB]
12:00 PM - 2:00 PMLunch
Informal Discussion of H0 and sigma8 Problems w/ Dan Scolnic, Jason Henning, & Andrey Kravtsov
12:15 PM - 12:30 PMDaniel Scolnic, KICP
Lunch Discussion -- H0 and SNe [PDF, 0.79 MB]
12:30 PM - 12:45 PMJason Henning, KICP
Lunch Discussion -- H0 and CMB [PDF, 4.98 MB]
12:45 PM - 1:00 PMAndrey Kravtsov, KICP
Lunch Discussion -- sigma8 [PDF, 8.76 MB]
2:00 PM - 2:45 PMMarco Peloso, University of Minnesota
Field excitation during inflation, and violation of the standard relation between r and the scale of inflation [PDF, 28.18 MB]
2:45 PM - 3:30 PMKathryn Zurek, University of California, Berkeley
Higgs vacuum instability during inflation and the survival of the universe [PDF, 12.99 MB]
3:30 PM - 4:00 PMCoffee break
4:00 PM - 4:45 PMHai-Bo Yu, University of California, Riverside
The Self-Interacting Dark Matter Paradigm [PDF, 10.04 MB]
4:45 PM - 5:30 PMCarlos Wagner, University of Chicago
Blind Spots in Direct Dark Matter Detection Searches [PDF, 34.79 MB]
5:30 PM - 7:00 PMReception
7:00 PM - 8:00 PMShuttle: KICP to Hotel

October 14, 2016 - Friday
9:00 AM - 10:00 AMShuttle: Hotel to KICP
10:00 AM - 10:15 AMBreakfast
10:15 AM - 11:00 AMKurt Hinterbichler, Case Western Reserve University
Partially Massless Higher-Spin Gauge Theory
11:00 AM - 11:45 AMAustin Joyce, Columbia University
Inflation in Flatland [PDF, 3.19 MB]
12:00 PM - 1:00 PMKICP Friday Lunch Seminar
12:00 PM - 1:00 PMYuhsin Tsai, U. Maryland
Partially Acoustic Dark Matter, Interacting Dark Radiation, and Large Scale Structure [PDF, 4.67 MB]
1:00 PM - 2:00 PMLunch
2:00 PM - 2:45 PMLam Hui, Columbia University
Symmetries in Large Scale Structure
2:45 PM - 3:30 PMLeonardo Senatore, Stanford University
Inhomogenous Anisotropic Cosmology: how inflation starts in an inhomogeneous universe [PDF, 12.11 MB]
3:30 PM - 4:00 PMCoffee break
4:00 PM - 4:45 PMMatthew Reece, Harvard University
Weak Gravity Conjecture [PDF, 2.36 MB]
4:45 PM - 5:30 PMJonathan Kozaczuk, University of Massachusetts
Detecting Gravitational Waves from Cosmological Phase Transitions [PDF, 7.41 MB]
5:30 PM - 6:00 PMCoffee & Snacks
6:00 PM - 7:00 PMShuttle: KICP to Hotel

October 15, 2016 - Saturday
9:00 AM - 10:00 AMShuttle: Hotel to KICP
10:00 AM - 10:30 AMBreakfast
10:30 AM - 11:15 AMAnson Hook, Institute for Advanced Study
Baryogenesis with Minimal CP Violation [PDF, 9.85 MB]
11:15 AM - 12:00 PMAlberto Nicolis, Columbia University
More possibilities for tensor modes in solid inflation [PDF, 13.68 MB]
12:00 PM - 2:00 PMLunch
2:00 PM - 2:45 PMTakeshi Kobayashi, SISSA
Primordial Magnetic Fields from Inflation and Beyond [PDF, 5.25 MB]
2:45 PM - 3:30 PMKohei Kamada, Arizona State University
Intergalactic Magnetic Fields as the Origin of the Baryon Asymmetry of the Universe [PDF, 32.02 MB]
3:30 PM - 4:00 PMCoffee break
4:00 PM - 4:45 PMMark Hertzberg, Tufts University
Aspects of Gravitation