August 22, 2014 - Friday
| Welcome | |
| Morning SessionChair: Marilena LoVerde | |
| Eva Silverstein, Stanford University Systematics of Axion Monodromy [PDF, 0.93 MB] | |
| Albion Lawrence, Brandeis University The effective field theory of axion monodromy [PDF, 4.01 MB] | |
| Coffee break | |
| Raphael Flauger, Institute for Advanced Study Toward an Understanding of Foreground Emission in the BICEP2 Region [PDF, 4.07 MB] | |
| Cora Dvorkin, Institute for Advanced Study Probing fundamental physics with CMB B-modes [PPTX, 2.62 MB] | |
| LUNCH | |
| Afternoon SessionChair: Wayne Hu | |
| Eugene Lim, King's College London Quantifying quantum vs classical correlations in the primordial perturbations [PDF, 3.3 MB] | |
| Richard Easther, University of Auckland Multifield Inflation -- Consequences and Possibilities [PDF, 10.87 MB] | |
| Coffee break | |
| Paul Steinhardt, Princeton University TBA | |
| Anna Ijjas, Princeton University Primordial perturbations around non-inflationary backgrounds | |
| Welcome Reception |
August 23, 2014 - Saturday
| Morning SessionChair: Emil Martinec | |
| Liam McAllister, Cornell University Axion Alignment Mechanisms for Large-Field Inflation | |
| Matt Kleban, New York University Superplanckian Field Ranges [PDF, 0.35 MB] | |
| Coffee break | |
| Daniel Green, CITA Disorder in the Early Universe | |
| Rich Holman, Carnegie Mellon EFT Beyond the Horizon: Stochastic Inflation and how Primordial Fluctuations go Classical [PDF, 2.54 MB] | |
| Lunch | |
| Afternoon SessionChair: Peter Adshead | |
| Raphael Bousso, University of California, Berkeley Why Now, and Why Comparable: A Multiverse Explanation of the Dark Matter-Baryon Coincidence [PDF, 4.41 MB] | |
| Hiranya Peiris, University College London Constraints on primordial non-Gaussianity from 800,000 photometric quasars [PDF, 9.75 MB] | |
| Coffee Break | |
| Robert Brandenberger, McGill University Challenges for Inflationary Cosmology [PDF, 1.21 MB] | |
| Justin Khoury, University of Pennsylvania Ward Identities in Cosmology [PDF, 25.01 MB] |
August 24, 2014 - Sunday
| Morning SessionChair: Austin Joyce | |
| Leonardo Senatore, Stanford University The Effective Field Theory of Large Scale Structures: how to find more modes to probe Inflation [PDF, 10 MB] | |
| Emil J. Martinec, University of Chicago Quantum gravity and inflation -- lessons from 2d toy models [PDF, 0.56 MB] | |
| Coffee Break | |
| Will Kinney, SUNY, Buffalo BICEP, Inflation, and Alternatives to Inflation [PDF, 0.16 MB] | |
| Mark Trodden, University of Pennsylvania Holographic Cosmology Beyond Inflation [PDF, 5.56 MB] | |
| Closing |
