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17th Rencontres Itzykson - Heart of Darkness: Dark Energy and Modified Gravity

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Amphitheatre Claude Bloch (IPhT CEA-Saclay)

Amphitheatre Claude Bloch

IPhT CEA-Saclay

Orme des Merisiers Batiment 774 F-91191 Gif-sur-Yvette France
Description
The Itzykson Meeting is held every year in Saclay to honour the memory of Claude Itzykson. The 17th edition of this meeting, to take place on June 18-20 2012, is devoted to dark energy and modified gravity.
Organizing commitee: Philippe Brax, Chiara Caprini, Lam Hui and Filippo Vernizzi
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  • Mon, June 18
    • 1
      Distances to Supernovae: Present and Future
      Speaker: Pierre Astier (LPHHE-Paris)
      Transparents
    • 2
      Measuring Dark Energy with the WiggleZ Survey
      Speaker: Prof. Chris Blake
      Transparents
    • 11:00 AM
      Coffee
    • 3
      Dark Energy with the Euclid Space Mission
      Speaker: Yannick Mellier (IAP)
      Transparents
    • 4
      Massive Gravity
      Speaker: Prof. Andrew Tolley
      Transparents
    • 5
      Testing Gravity on Cosmic Scales
      Speaker: Prof. Rachel Bean
      Transparents
    • 1:00 PM
      Lunch
    • 6
      The Direction of Gravity
      Speaker: Prof. Eric Linder
      Transparents
    • 7
      Stellar Structure and Galaxies as probes of Modified Gravity
      Speaker: Dr Eugene Lim
      Transparents
    • 8
      Some Recent Results about Massive Gravity
      Speaker: Dr Cedric Deffayet
    • 4:00 PM
      Coffee
    • 9
      Ghost-Free Interacting Spin Two Fields
      Speaker: Kurt Hinterbichler
      Transparents
    • 10
      Ghost-Free Interacting Spin Two Fields II
      Speaker: Dr Rachel Rosen
    • 5:30 PM
      Free
    • 6:30 PM
      Bus to le Guichet RER station
  • Tue, June 19
    • 11
      Some Implications of Recent Tests of the Equivalence Principle and the Inverse Square Law
      Speaker: Prof. Eric Adelberger
      Transparents
    • 12
      Lorentz Violation in Gravity: Theory and Phenomenology
      Speaker: Dr Sergei Sibiryakov
      Transparents
    • 11:00 AM
      Coffee
    • 13
      Falsifying Dark Energy Paradigms
      Speaker: Prof. Wayne Hu
      Transparents
    • 14
      Modifications of Gravity in the Radiation Dominated Era
      Speaker: Dr Carsten van de Bruck
      Transparents
    • 15
      Cosmic Microwave Background and Dark Matter
      Speaker: Dr Skordis Konstantinos
      Transparents
    • 1:00 PM
      Lunch
    • 16
      Precision Power Spectrum Calculations for Large Scale Observations
      Speaker: Dr Atsushi Taruya
      Transparents
    • 17
      Beyond N-body Simulations: the Role of Baryons in Structure Formation
      Speaker: Prof. Romain Teyssier
      Transparents
    • 18
      Non-linear Structure Formation in Modified Gravity
      Speaker: Dr Kazuya Koyama
      Transparents
    • 4:00 PM
      Coffee
    • 19
      Large Scale Structure Formation Beyond Linear Order
      Speaker: Dr Francis Bernardeau
      Transparents
    • Discussion Session-Phenomenology
      Convener: Prof. Ruth Durrer
    • 6:00 PM
      Free
    • 6:30 PM
      Bus to le Guichet RER station
  • Wed, June 20
    • 20
      Galaxy Clustering in BOSS
      Speaker: Prof. Will Percival
      Transparents
    • 21
      Self-Tuning and the Cosmological Constant Problem
      Speaker: Dr Christos Charmousis
      Transparents
    • 11:00 AM
      Coffee
    • 22
      Classical and Quantum Constraints on Chameleon Theories
      Speaker: Prof. Justin Khoury
      Transparents
    • 23
      Inflation and Modified Gravity
      Speaker: Dr Paolo Creminelli
      Transparents
    • 24
      Solid Inflation
      Speaker: Dr Alberto Nicolis
      Transparents
    • 1:00 PM
      Lunch
    • 25
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      Speaker: Prof. Lam Hui
      Transparents
    • Discussion Session-Theory
      Convener: Prof. Anne-Christine Davis
    • 4:00 PM
      Coffee
    • 4:30 PM
      Free
    • 5:30 PM
      Bus to RER station Le Guichet