The Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics (KICP) at the University of Chicago is hosting a workshop this summer on inflationary theory. The goal is to gather a small group of researchers working in inflationary cosmology for several days of informal presentations and discussion relating to the status of theories of the inflationary universe. Topics of particular focus are model building, challenges for inflationary theories, connections to fundamental physics, and prospects for refining our understanding with future datasets. This meeting is a satellite conference of COSMO 2014. The meeting will be complementary to the COSMO conference in that it will be small, informal, and relatively narrow in scope.
Invited Speakers
| Raphael Bousso University of California, Berkeley | Robert Brandenberger McGill University | Cora Dvorkin Institute for Advanced Study |
| Richard Easther University of Auckland | Raphael Flauger Institute for Advanced Study | Daniel Green CITA |
| Rich Holman Carnegie Mellon | Anna Ijjas Princeton University | Justin Khoury University of Pennsylvania |
| Will Kinney SUNY, Buffalo | Matt Kleban New York University | Albion Lawrence Brandeis University |
| Eugene Lim King's College London | Emil Martinec University of Chicago | Liam McAllister Cornell University |
| Hiranya Peiris University College London | Leonardo Senatore Stanford University | Eva Silverstein Stanford University |
| Paul Steinhardt Princeton University | Mark Trodden University of Pennsylvania |
Organizing Committee
| Peter Adshead University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | Wayne Hu University of Chicago | Austin Joyce University of Chicago |
| Marilena LoVerde University of Chicago | Emil Martinec University of Chicago |
Online Materials
- List of Participants [PDF]
- Program [PDF]
- Materials [List of Participants, Program, Presentations; PDF]
