Workshop on the Ekpyrotic Universe : Tentative programme

All informations on   http://wwwlapp.in2p3.fr/~lesgourg/EKPY/ekpy.htm

Monday 10 December

 
09.30-10.20   Neil Turok   (DAMTP) :
                        The Ekpyrotic Universe, and its Cyclic Extension
10.30-11.20   Gabriele Veneziano   (CERN) :
                       Does the "old" pre-big-bang scenario need a lifting?
11.30-12.20   Robert Brandenberger   (Brown, CERN) :
                        Fluctuations in the Ekpyrotic Universe

12.30-14.00   LUNCH BREAK

14.00-14.30   Andrey Neronov (Munich) :
                        Conservation law in brane collisions
14.30-15.00   Patrick Peter (IAP) :
                        Passing through the bounce in the ekpyrotic model
15.00-15.30   Christopher Gordon   (DAMTP) :
                        Evolution of perturbations through a general relativistic bounce
15.30-16.00   Syksy Rasanen   (Helsinki U.) :
                        On the ekpyrotic bounce and on the moduli space approximation

16.00-16.30 COFFEE BREAK

16.30-17.00   Warren Perkins   (Swansea) :
                        Colliding Bubble Worlds - Ekpyrotic Nemesis?
17.00-17.30   Nikita Nekrasov   (IHES) :
                        Big Crunch to Big Bang transition and noncommutative geometry

Tuesday 11 December

 
09.30-10.20   David Lyth   (Lancaster U.) :
                        Generating the curvature perturbation without an inflaton
10.30-11.20   Neil Turok   (DAMTP) :
                        Density Perturbations in the Ekpyrotic/Cyclic Scenarios
11.30-12.20   First discussion session

12.30-14.00   LUNCH BREAK

14.00-14.30   Martin Bucher   (DAMTP) :
                        The Colliding Bubble Braneworld Scenario
14.30-15.00   Jose Blanco-Pillado   (DAMTP) :
                        Exact Scale Invariance in a Colliding Bubble Braneworld
15.00-15.30   Martin Snoager Sloth   (Helsinki U.) :
                        Adiabatic CMB perturbations in pre-big bang string cosmology
15.30-16.00   Stephen Davis (LPT Orsay) :
                        Exact brane cosmology solutions with bulk scalar fields

16.00-16.30 COFFEE BREAK

16.30-17.30   Final discussion session