UK Cosmo meeting, 2nd May 2019

 

Venue

The workshop took place in MR9, Pavilion B of the Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Organisation

The local organisers were Enrico Pajer (ep551@cam.ac.uk) and Garrett Goon (gg399@cam.ac.uk).

Programme

  • 9:15-9:45 Registration
  • 9:50-10:00 Welcome
  • 10:00-10:30 Tommi Markkanen (Imperial): Dark Energy from Inflation and Electroweak Symmetry Breaking
  • 10:30-11:00 Tays Miranda de Andrade (Portsmouth): Stochastic Effects in a Collapsing Universe
  • 11:00-11:45 Coffee Break
  • 11:45-12:15 Josu C. Aurrekoetxea (KCL): Robustness of Inhomogeneous Inflation to Convex/Concave Potentials
  • 12:15-12:45 Cora Uhlemann (DAMTP): A Semiclassical Path to Cosmic Large-Scale Structure
  • 12:45-14:00 Lunch
  • 14:00-14:30 David Weir (Nottingham): Gravitational Waves from a Strong Electroweak Phase Transition
  • 14:30-15:00 Maria Mylova, (Swansea U.): Parametric Amplification of Chiral Gravitational Waves in Single Field Inflation
  • 15:00-15:30 Alexander C. Jenkins (KCL): Shot Noise in the Stochastic Gravitational-Wave Background
  • 15:30-16:15 Coffee Break
  • 16:15-16:45 Pedro Carrilho (Queen Mary): Applications of Isocurvature Initial Conditions at Second Order
  • 16:45-17:15 Jakub Supel (DAMTP): Soft Theorems in an Open Universe 
  • 17:15 End of meeting

List of attendees

Ana Achucarro
Feanor Reuben Ares
Tasos Avgoustidis
Richard Battye
Theodor Bjorkmo
Christian Byrnes
Bernard Carr
Pedro Carrilho
Sebastian Cespedes
Philip Clarke
Pippa Cole
Anne-Christine Davis
Konstantinos Dimopoulos
Amelia Drew
Benjamin Elder
Miguel Escudero
Matteo Fasiello
James Fergusson
Francesco Filippini
Kieran Finn
Emmanuel Frion
Jorge Fuentes
Steffen Gielen
Tanguy Grall
Natalie Hogg
Jonathan Holland
Johnathan Hung
Laura Iacconi
Sadra Jazayeri
Alexander Jenkins
Chakkrit Kaeonikhom
Sotirios Karamitsos
Michael Kenna-Allison
Darsh Kodwani
Kazuya Koyama
Antony Lewis
Joao Magueijo
Mahbub Majumdar
Alessio Spurio Mancini
Tommi Markkanen
Rebeca Martinez Carrillo
Kareem Marzouk
Zeeya Merali
Tays Miranda de Andrade
Mark Mirmelstein
Arshia Momeni
Nicolo Muleo
Maria Mylova
Atsuhisa Ota
Charlotte Owen
Gonzalo Palma
Chris Pattison
Levon Pogosian
Cari Powell
David Rodriguez
Justinas Rumbutis
Paul Shellard
Wuhyun Sohn
Kerwann Tep
Andrew Tolley
Cora Uhlemann
Carsten van de Bruck
Dong-Gang Wang
Mike Wang
David Weir
Helvi Witek
Bill Wright
Tevong You