Cosmology Workshop Montpellier12

October 11 2012

• 9:00 - 9:40
  Kei-Ichi Maeda (Waseda Univ., Tokyo, Japan)
  Inflation with gauge fields
• 09:50 - 10:30
  Sasha Kamenshchik (Univ. Bologna, Italy)
  Soft and "hard" singularities in classical and quantum cosmology


• 10:30 - 11:00 -- Coffee Break
  
  
• 11:00 - 11:40
  Alexei Starobinsky (Landau Inst, Moscow, Russia)
  Exact de Sitter solutions with a non-constant scalar field in scalar-tensor gravity
• 11:50 - 12:30
  Leandros Perivolaropoulos (University of Ioannina, Greece)
  Is there a fundamental Cosmic Dipole?

• 14:00 - 14:40
  Patrick Peter (IAP, France)
  The quantum measurement problem in cosmological perturbation theory
• 14:50 - 15:30
  Joan Sola (Barcelona University, Spain)
  Cosmological vacuum decay: from de Sitter to de Sitter


• 15:30 - 16:00 -- Coffee Break
  
  
• 16:00 - 16:40
  Christian Marinoni (CPT, Marseille, France)
  The simplest (ever) cosmic probe
• 16:50 - 17:30
  Heinrich Steigerwald (CPT, Marseille, France)
  Homogeneous and isotropic universes with shear: Implications for cosmic acceleration