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

18 juin 2012, 09:00 → 20 juin 2012, 18:00 Europe/Paris

Amphitheatre Claude Bloch (IPhT CEA-Saclay)

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

 

 

Poster poster.pdf

lun. 18 juin

1 Distances to Supernovae: Present and Future

Orateur: Pierre Astier (LPHHE-Paris)

Transparents Astier.pdf

2 Measuring Dark Energy with the WiggleZ Survey

Orateur: Prof. Chris Blake

Transparents Blake.pdf

11:00 Coffee

3 Dark Energy with the Euclid Space Mission

Orateur: Yannick Mellier (IAP)

Transparents Mellier.pdf

4 Massive Gravity

Orateur: Prof. Andrew Tolley

Transparents Tolley.pdf

5 Testing Gravity on Cosmic Scales

Orateur: Prof. Rachel Bean

Transparents Bean.pdf

13:00 Lunch

6 The Direction of Gravity

Orateur: Prof. Eric Linder

Transparents Linder.pdf

7 Stellar Structure and Galaxies as probes of Modified Gravity

Orateur: Dr Eugene Lim

Transparents Lim.pdf

8 Some Recent Results about Massive Gravity

Orateur: Dr Cedric Deffayet

16:00 Coffee

9 Ghost-Free Interacting Spin Two Fields

Orateur: Kurt Hinterbichler

Transparents Hinterbichler.pdf

10 Ghost-Free Interacting Spin Two Fields II

Orateur: Dr Rachel Rosen

17:30 Free

18:30 Bus to le Guichet RER station

mar. 19 juin

11 Some Implications of Recent Tests of the Equivalence Principle and the Inverse Square Law

Orateur: Prof. Eric Adelberger

Transparents Adelberger.pdf

12 Lorentz Violation in Gravity: Theory and Phenomenology

Orateur: Dr Sergei Sibiryakov

Transparents Sibiriakov.pdf

11:00 Coffee

13 Falsifying Dark Energy Paradigms

Orateur: Prof. Wayne Hu

Transparents Hu.pdf

14 Modifications of Gravity in the Radiation Dominated Era

Orateur: Dr Carsten van de Bruck

Transparents vandeBruck.pdf

15 Cosmic Microwave Background and Dark Matter

Orateur: Dr Skordis Konstantinos

Transparents Skordis.pdf

13:00 Lunch

16 Precision Power Spectrum Calculations for Large Scale Observations

Orateur: Dr Atsushi Taruya

Transparents Taruya.pdf

17 Beyond N-body Simulations: the Role of Baryons in Structure Formation

Orateur: Prof. Romain Teyssier

Transparents Teyssier.pdf

18 Non-linear Structure Formation in Modified Gravity

Orateur: Dr Kazuya Koyama

Transparents Koyama.pptx

16:00 Coffee

19 Large Scale Structure Formation Beyond Linear Order

Orateur: Dr Francis Bernardeau

Transparents Bernardeau.pdf

Discussion Session-Phenomenology

Président de session: Prof. Ruth Durrer

18:00 Free

18:30 Bus to le Guichet RER station

mer. 20 juin

20 Galaxy Clustering in BOSS

Orateur: Prof. Will Percival

Transparents Percival.pdf

21 Self-Tuning and the Cosmological Constant Problem

Orateur: Dr Christos Charmousis

Transparents Charmousis.pdf

11:00 Coffee

22 Classical and Quantum Constraints on Chameleon Theories

Orateur: Prof. Justin Khoury

Transparents Khoury.pdf

23 Inflation and Modified Gravity

Orateur: Dr Paolo Creminelli

Transparents Creminelli.pdf

24 Solid Inflation

Orateur: Dr Alberto Nicolis

Transparents Nicolis.pdf

13:00 Lunch

25 (no title)

Orateur: Prof. Lam Hui

Transparents Hui.pdf

Discussion Session-Theory

Président de session: Prof. Anne-Christine Davis

16:00 Coffee

16:30 Free

17:30 Bus to RER station Le Guichet