CONFERENCE PROGRAMME

All conference talks will be held in Michael DeGroote Centre for Learning & Discovery (MDCL) Rm 1305/07.
Registration will take place outside of this hall.
Coffee will be served in the foyer outside the rear doors of the theatre.

SUNDAY, MAY 13
17:00	Registration / Wine and Cheese
MONDAY, MAY 14
08:15	Continental Breakfast & Registration
08:30
09:00	Ed Copeland - University of Nottingham Dynamics of Dark Energy (R) -  ABSTRACT
09:30
10:00
10:30	Coffee
11:00	Cliff Burgess - McMaster University & Perimeter Institute Extra dimensions and the Cosmological Constant Problem (C) -  ABSTRACT
11:30	Robert Caldwell - Dartmouth College Tests of the Dark Energy Paradigm (C) -  ABSTRACT
12:00	Lunch
12:30
13:00
13:30
14:00	Olivier Dore - CITA Mapping the polarized sky with WMAP: methods and cosmological implications (R) -  ABSTRACT
14:30
15:00	Ue-li Pen - CITA Dark Energy with Radio Hydrogen Surveys (C) -  ABSTRACT
15:30	Coffee
16:00	Viatcheslav Mukhanov - Arnold Sommerfeld Center for Theoretical Physics, Munich CMB, Dark Matter and Dark Energy (R) -  ABSTRACT
16:30
17:00	Aleksandar Rakic - Bielefeld University CMB Anomalies: Local Structures and Correlations (C) -  ABSTRACT
17:30	Costas Skordis - Perimeter Institute Bekenstein-Sanders theory of modified gravity as a solution to the missing mass problem (C) -  ABSTRACT
19:30	Conference Social - Slainté Irish Pub 33 Bowen St., Hamilton http://www.slainteirishpub.ca/index2.html
TUESDAY, MAY 15
08:15	Continental Breakfast
08:30
09:00	Brian Schmidt - Australian National University Measuring Dark Energy with Supernovae (R) -  ABSTRACT
09:30
10:00	Coffee & Poster Session I
10:30	Patrick McDonald - CITA Refining the Distance Scale to 1% with the ARC 2.5-m (SDSS) Telescope (C) -  ABSTRACT
11:00	Jim Cline - McGill University The Entropic Approach to Predicting Lambda (C) -  ABSTRACT
11:30	Rachel Bean - Cornell University Perturbations (and other concerns) in modified gravity theories of dark energy (C) -  ABSTRACT
12:00	Lunch
12:30
13:00
13:30	Henk Hoekstra - University of Victoria Weak lensing by large scale structure (R) -  ABSTRACT
14:00
14:30	Mark Sullivan - University of Toronto Constraining Dark Energy with the Supernova Legacy Survey (R) -  ABSTRACT
15:00
15:30	Coffee
16:00	Robert Crittenden - University of Portsmouth Dark energy and the CMB (R) -  ABSTRACT
16:30
17:00	Tommaso Giannantonio - ICG, Portsmouth A high redshift detection of the integrated Sachs-Wolfe effect (C) -  ABSTRACT
20:00	Origins Institute Public Lecture Series Rocky Kolb - Mysteries of the Dark Universe (More information)
WEDNESDAY, MAY 16
08:15	Continental Breakfast
08:30
09:00	Uros Seljak - Princeton University Overview of Large Scale Structure (R) -  ABSTRACT
09:30
10:00	Coffee
10:30	Luca Amendola - Osservatorio Astronomico di Roma The dark side of gravity (R) -  ABSTRACT
11:00
11:30	Mustapha Ishak - University of Texas at Dallas Dark Energy versus Modified Gravity Models: Probing Cosmic Acceleration Beyond the Equation of State (C) -  ABSTRACT
12:00	Lunch
12:30
13:00
13:30	Wayne Hu - University of Chicago f(R) Models of Cosmic Acceleration (R) -  ABSTRACT
14:00
14:30	James Taylor - University of Waterloo Measuring the Growth Factor via Gravitational Lensing (C) -  ABSTRACT
15:00	David Rapetti - KIPAC at Stanford/SLAC X-ray galaxy clusters as cosmological probes (C) -  ABSTRACT
15:30	Coffee & Poster Session II
16:00	Gia Dvali - New York University Degravitation (R) -  ABSTRACT
16:30
17:00	Katherine Freese - University of Michigan Devaluation: a Domain Wall Driven mechanism to reduce the value of the cosmological constant (C) -  ABSTRACT
17:30	Lily Schrempp - DESY Hamburg The Stability Issue in Models of Neutrino Dark Energy (C) -  ABSTRACT
19:00	Conference dinner McMaster University Faculty Club
THURSDAY, MAY 17
08:15	Continental Breakfast
08:30
09:00	Andreas Albrecht - University of California, Davis How to falsify your theory of dark energy (R) -  ABSTRACT
09:30
10:00	Coffee
10:30	Bernard Schutz - Albert Einstein Institute Prospects for Dark Energy Measurements by LISA (C) -  ABSTRACT
11:00	Daniel Levy - Ben Gurion University Determining the expansion history of the universe with the 3D cosmic shear (C) -  ABSTRACT
11:30	Tina Kahniashvili - CCPP, NYU Relic gravitational waves from phase transitions (C) -  ABSTRACT
12:00	Lunch
12:30
13:00
13:30	Christian Beck - Queen Mary, University of London Laboratory tests on dark energy (C) -  ABSTRACT
14:00	Ali Vanderveld - Cornell University Systematic Corrections to the Measured Cosmological Constant due to Local Inhomogeneity (C) -  ABSTRACT
14:30	Coffee
15:00	Rocky Kolb - University of Chicago Inhomogeneities and dark energy (R) -  ABSTRACT
15:30
16:15	Free transportation to the Perimeter Institute, Waterloo

 WORKSHOP PROGRAMME

FRIDAY, MAY 18
09:00	Christof Wetterich - Universität Heidelberg Dark Energy from variation of the fundamental scale (recorded version) (R) -  ABSTRACT
09:30
10:00
10:30	Coffee
11:00	Philippe Brax - SPhT Saclay Embedding Quintessence in Spontaneously Broken N=1 Supergravity (recorded version) (C) -  ABSTRACT
11:30	Alessandra Silvestri - Syracuse University Dynamics of Linear Perturbations in Modified Gravity Theories (recorded version) (C) -  ABSTRACT
12:00	Lunch & Discussions
12:30
13:00
13:30
14:00
14:30
15:00
15:30
16:00	Gregory Gabadadze - NYU Two Topics on the Accelerating Universe (recorded version) (R) -  ABSTRACT
16:30
17:00	Urbano França - Instituto de Física Corpuscular, CSIC/UV Dark Energy and Neutrino Mass (recorded version) (C) -  ABSTRACT
17:30	Susha Parameswaran - SISSA, Trieste, Italy Explorations in Supersymmetric Large Extra Dimensions (recorded version) (C) -  ABSTRACT
SATURDAY, MAY 19
10:00	F.A. Cup Final (Manchester United vs Arsenal)
10:30	Coffee
11:00	Fernando Quevedo - DAMTP, Cambridge University Large extra dimensions and darkness from string theory (recorded version) (R) -  ABSTRACT
11:30
12:00	Lunch & Discussions
12:30
13:00
13:30
14:00
14:30
15:00
15:30
16:00	Scott Watson - University of Toronto Non-Anthropic Approaches to the String Landscape (recorded version) (C) -  ABSTRACT
16:30	Alessio Notari - McGill University Nonlinear Structure Formation and Apparent Acceleration: An Investigation (recorded version) (C) -  ABSTRACT
17:00	Anthony Aguirre - University of California, Santa Cruz Why the vacuum energy is enormous (just not here and now) (recorded version) (R) -  ABSTRACT
17:30
SUNDAY, MAY 20
09:00	Georgi Dvali - New York University Gravity probes and graviton hair (recorded version) (C) -  ABSTRACT
09:30
10:00
10:30	Coffee
11:00	Kazuya Koyama - Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation, University of Portsmouth The DGP braneworld (recorded version) (C) -  ABSTRACT
11:30	Oriol Pujolas - New York University Consistent Lorentz Violation in Flat and Curved Space (recorded version) (C) -  ABSTRACT
12:00	Lunch
12:30
13:00
13:30
14:00	Raman Sundrum - Johns Hopkins University Dark Energy, Lorentz Violation and Ghosts (recorded version) (R) -  ABSTRACT
14:30
15:00	Vitaly Vanchurin - LMU - Munich Random observations in the landscape (recorded version) (C) -  ABSTRACT
15:30	Coffee
16:00	Andrei Barvinsky - Lebedev Physics Institute, Moscow Why there is something rather than nothing (recorded version) (C) -  ABSTRACT
16:30	John Moffat - Perimeter Institute Modified Gravity And Its Consequences For The Solar System, Astrophysics And Cosmology (recorded version) (C) -  ABSTRACT