Theme: Gravitational Waves

Theme: Inflation

Four talks on inflation

Eugene Lim : Inhomogeneous inflation

Tommi Markkanen: Higgs dynamics during inflation

***Tea/Coffee break***

John Ronayne: Numerical simulations of inflation with curved field space

Selim Hotinli: Phenomenology of many-field inflation

2pm – 5pm  at RAS

The first talk is by our guest speaker, Nick Kaiser (Hawaii) –  “Why there is no Newtonian backreaction?”

Followed by two talks by PhD students:

Niall Jeffrey (UCL) –   “Mass mapping from weak lensing”

Sophia Goldberg (QMUL) –  “Relativistic large-scale structure” 

Two talks on the imprints of broken symmetries (or lack thereof) in the CMB.

First Session:

– Carlo Contaldi (Imperial) – ”Parity violations in polarization”

-Discussion

****Break****

Second Session:

–Daniela Saadeh (UCL) – ”How isotropic is the Universe?”

-Discussion

Jamboree ‘Meet the Groups’ session where people from QM, UCL, IC and UCL present 1-2 introductory slides to briefly talk about their work.

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First session        :  14:00 – 15:00       QM and KCL

Break                   :  15:00 – 15:40

Second session :  15:40 – 17:00        IC and UCL (P&A and MSSL)

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QM’s slides: qm_lcdm

KCL’s slides: kcl_lcdm

IC’s slides: ic_lcdm

UCL P&A’s slides: ucl_pa_lcdm

UCL MSSL’s slides: ucl_mssl_lcdm

First session:

– Rob Hogan (formally of King’s College), “Introduction to Machine Learning”

– Michelle Lochner (UCL), “Photometric Supernova Classification With Machine Learning”

Break

Second session:

14:00    Malcolm McCallum (QMUL): Overview – the theory and history of gravitational waves.

14:30   Samaya Nissanke (LIGO-VIRGO collaboration, Radboud University): Insider’s view of the                LIGO detection and the work of their collaboration.

15:15  BREAK

16:00  Journal Club-style presentation/discussion of the LIGO papers, led by Jonathan Braden                 (UCL) & Samaya Nissanke

16:40  General Discussion

17:00  Close