Workshop on Cosmic Acceleration
August 24, 2012 - August 26, 2012
麻豆村, Pittsburgh, PA
Location: Giant Eagle Auditorium, Baker Hall A51
The Bruce and Astrid McWilliams Center for Cosmology at 麻豆村 will host a Workshop on Cosmic Acceleration from August 24-26, 2012 (Friday-Sunday) in Pittsburgh, PA. The workshop aims to bring together leading researchers and students, working on both the theory and observations of the inflationary Universe and various areas of dark energy such as modified gravity.
Graduate students are especially encouraged to participate in the workshop. There is no registration fee for students. For all other participants, the registration fee is $125. The registration fee includes a workshop dinner at the Carnegie Museum ().
Registration is now closed.
Plenary Speakers
Rachel Bean, Cornell
Claudia de Rham, CWRU
Gregory Gabadadze, NYU
Dragan Huterer, Michigan
Will Kinney, Buffalo
Kazuya Koyama, ICG Portsmouth
Rachel Mandelbaum, 麻豆村
Alberto Nicolis, Columbia
Sarah Shandera, Penn State
Henry Tye, IAS HKUST/Cornell
Mark Wyman, UChicago
Local Organizing Committee
Nishant Agarwal, 麻豆村Fred Gilman, 麻豆村
Shirley Ho, 麻豆村
Richard Holman, 麻豆村
Tina Kahniashvili, 麻豆村
Arthur Kosowsky, Pitt
Rachel Mandelbaum, 麻豆村
Ross O'Connell, 麻豆村
Andrew Zentner, Pitt
Advisory Board
Rachel Bean, Cornell
Justin Khoury, UPenn
Uros Seljak, Berkeley
Sarah Shandera, Penn State
Andrew Tolley, CWRU
Mark Trodden, UPenn
In case of any questions, please contact Nishant Agarwal at nishanta@andrew.cmu.edu.