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June 2, 2009
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10:00 am – noon
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Registration of the invited speakers
Room Fb-6
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noon – 1:00 pm
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Lunch
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1:00 pm – 1:15 pm
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Opening remarks
J. R. Hansen, Director of the Niels Bohr Institute
P. Hansen, Director of the Discovery Center
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1:15 pm – 2:00 pm
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“Broken scale-invariance and non-Gaussianity from multiple inflation”
Subir Sarkar (University of Oxford)
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2:00 pm – 2:45 am
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“Some alternatives to the standard cosmological model”
Anthony Lasenby (University of Cambridge)
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2:45 pm – 3:15 pm
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Coffee & Discussions
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3:15 pm – 4:00 pm
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“Dark energy, large scale magnetic field and QCD”
Ariel Zhitnitsky (University of British Columbia)
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4:00 pm – 4:45 pm
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“Foreground removal from CMB temperature maps using an MLP neural network”
Hans Ulrik Norgaard-Nielsen (Danish Technical University)
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4:45 pm – 5:15 pm
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“A model independent null test on the cosmological constant”
Savvas Nesseris (Niels Bohr International Academy)
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5:30 pm – onward
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Reception at the Niels Bohr International Academy (Building B)
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June 3, 2009
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9:30 am – 10:15 am
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“Looking for cosmic strings”
Alexander Vilenkin (Tufts University)
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10:15 am–11:00 am
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“Relic gravitational waves and cosmic microwave background radiation”
Leonid Grishchuk (Cardiff University)
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11:00 am–11:30 am
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Coffee & Discussions
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11:30 am–12:15 pm
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“Searching for primordial non-Gaussianity: News from LSS and CMB”
Sabino Matarrese (University of Padua)
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12:15 pm – 1:30 pm
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Lunch
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1:30 pm– 2:30 pm
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“Cosmic anomalies”
Peter Coles (Cardiff University)
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2:30 pm – 3:30 pm
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“Low resolution analysis for future and forthcoming CMB missions”
Paolo Natoli (INFN, Università di Roma “Tor Vergata”)
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3:30 pm – 4:00 pm
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Coffee & Discussions
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4:00 pm – 4:45 pm
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“CMB anomalies at large angular scales: examples of residuals from systematic and astrophysical effects”
Carlo Burigana (INAF, IASF-Bologna)
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4:45 pm – 5:30 pm
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“Puzzling aspects of the microwave sky”
Dominik Schwarz (Universität Bielefeld)
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5:30 pm – 6:00 pm
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“Anomalous parity asymmetry of the WMAP 7 power spectrum data: Is it cosmological or systematics?”
Jaiseung Kim (Niels Bohr Institute)
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6:30 pm – onward
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Workshop Dinner
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June 4, 2009
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10:00 am – onward
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Open Discussion (Room Fb-6)
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