Program

Monday 15 December 2014
08:45-10:30	15	Welcome & Practicalities	F. Bouchet & J. Martin
	40+5	Introductory remarks on inflation	A. Starobinsky
	40+5	Inflation in supergravity and cosmological attractors	A. Linde
10:30-11:00	Coffee Break
11:00-12:30	40+5	Inflation & LHC	M. Shaposhnikov
	40+5	String Theory and Inflation: Why?	C. Burgess
12:30-14:00	Lunch Break
14:00-15:30	Results from the Planck collaboration
	40+5	Planck CMB results	F.R. Bouchet
	20+2.5	Snags for Cosmology, from instrument to foregrounds	J.L. Puget
	20+2.5	Establishing the Planck only likelihood	F. Elsner
15:30-16:00	Coffee Break
16:00-18:00
	20+2.5	The dust polarization statistics at high galactic latitudes	J. Aumont
	20+2.5	Base LCDM parameters	S. Gratton
	20+2.5	LCDM Extensions: A_lens, Y_HE, Neff, Mnu, DM annil, Fund.cste.var	S. Galli
	20+2.5	Update on low-ell anomalies	P. Natoli
	20+2.5	Constraints on dark energy after Planck	V. Pettorino
18:00-18:30	Coffee Break
18:30-19:00
	Poster snap presentations I (One slide, one minute each)
19:00-21:30	Welcome Cocktail

Tuesday 16 December 2014
09:00-10:30	Results from the Planck collaboration (continued)
	20+2.5	Non-Gaussianities via the modal estimator	M. Liguori
	20+2.5	Bispectrum Oscillations	M. Munchmeyer
	20+2.5	Binned bispectrum results and isocurvature constraints	Bartjan Van Tent
	20+2.5	Inflation constraints 1	J. Hamann
10:30-11:00	Coffee Break
11:00-12:30
	20+2.5	Inflation constraints 2	D. Paoletti (TBC)
	20+2.5	Statistical anisotropies	T. Souradeep
	20+2.5	Peak statistics	A. Frolov
	20+2.5	Lensing Like + Tau_NL	A. Challinor
12:30-14:00	Lunch Break
14:00-15:30	Inflation status
	40+5	Inflationary models after Planck	C. Ringeval
	20+2.5	Inflation in String Theory and the CMB	E. Silverstein
	20+2.5	Inflationary attractors	D. Roest
15:30-16:00	Coffee Break
16:00-17:30	40+5	Inflationary three-point functions	L. Sriramkumar
	20+2.5	Probing fundamental physics with CMB B-modes	C. Dvorkin
	20+2.5	The curvaton scenario: Pre and post Planck	C. Byrnes
17:30-19:00	Debate I
	30	Introduction-1: Critical review of Inflation	P. Steinhardt
	30	Introduction-2: Critical review of alternatives to Inflation	V. Mukhanov
	30	Debate: Theoretical Problems & way forward	A. Stebbins (Convener)

Wednesday 17 December 2014
09:00-10:30	Inflation status (continued)
	40+5	Inflationary magnetogenesis	J. Yokoyama
	20+2.5	Non-gaussian imprints of primordial magnetic fields from inflation	R. Jain
	20+2.5	Universal constraints on axions from inflation	M. Sloth
10:30-11:00	Coffee Break
11:00-12:30
	20+2.5	Tensors, BICEP2, prior dependence, and dust	A. Liddle
	20+2.5	Inflation, Planck, and BICEP	W. Kinney
	20+2.5	Effective field theory treatment of inflation	A. Mazumdar
	20+2.5	Putting inflation to the test	D. Meerburg
12:30-14:00	Lunch Break
14:00-15:30	CMB experiments
	40+2.5	Review on non Planck CMB experiments	B. Crill
	20+2.5	SPT	B. Holzapfel
	20+2.5	BICEP 3	C. Kuo
15:30-16:00	Coffee Break
16:00-17:30
	20+2.5	Spectral distortions in the cosmic microwave background polarization	S. Renaux-Petel
	20+2.5	Core+	J. Delabrouille
	20+2.5	How Well Can Future CMB Missions Constrain Cosmic Inflation?	V. Vennin
	20+2.5	After Planck: The road to observing 17 e-folds of inflation	R. Khatri
17:30-18:00	Coffee Break
18:00-19:00	Debate II
	30	Introduction: Future CMB and LSS Precision Testing of Inflation-epoch Gravity Waves & Non-Gaussianity	D. Bond
	30	Discussion on future observationnal prospects: - Ωk - inflationary consistency relations (r=-8nT, fNL=5(1-nS)/12) - inflationary running	M. White (Convener )

Thursday 18 December 2014
09:00-10:30	Alternatives and/or complements to inflation
	40+5	Alternatives to inflation	R. Brandenberger
	20+2.5	Cosmological Constraints on Ultra-light Axions: Planck, the high-z universe, and BICEP2	D. Marsh
	20+2.5	Implications of the No-Boundary Proposal for Ekpyrotic and Cyclic Cosmologies	JL. Lehners
10:30-11:00	Coffee Break
11:00-12:30
	40+5	Bouncing models	P. Peter
	20+2.5	Bouncing models and Planck	N. Pinto-Neto
	20+2.5	Constraints on topological defects from the CMB	M. Hindmarsh
12:30-14:00	Lunch Break
14:00-15:30	LSS relevant results
	40+5	Weak lensing/Lyman alpha/Clusters	U. Seljak
	20+2.5	Cosmology with the Kinetic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect	S. Ferraro
	20+2.5	Higgs-dilation inflation and LSS surveys	J. Garcia-Bellido
15:30-16:00	Coffee Break
16:00-17:30
	40+5	Early‐universe physics from 21cm surveys	J. Pritchard
	20+2.5	Simulating the 21 cm background from the dark ages to the end of reionization	Y. Mao
	20+2.5	New probes of the primordial universe using 21-cm radiation from the pre-reionization epoch.	T. Venumadhav
17:30-18:15	Poster snap presentations II (One slide, one minute each)
18:15-19:00	IAP medal award ceremony
Conference Dinner

Friday 19 December 2014
09:00-10:30	Fundamental theoretical aspects
	40+5	Inflation & Quantum mechanics	C. Kiefer
	20+2.5	Quantum mechanics and large-scale CMB anomalies	A. Valentini
	20+2.5	Classicalization of primordial perturbations by Continuous Spontaneous Localization, a quantum collapse model, after PLANCK and BICEP2	S. Das
10:30-11:00	Coffee Break
11:00-12:30
	40+5	Loop quantum cosmology	A. Ashtekar
	20+2.5	Big bang or slow freeze ?	C. Wetterich
	20+2.5	Keeping the universe warm	S. Bartrum
12:30-14:00	Lunch Break
14:00-15:30	LSS relevant results (continued)
	40+5	Boss/BAO/RSD	M. White
	20+2.5	Searching for primordial features from CMB and LSS surveys	B. Hu
	20+2.5	Relativistic galaxy number counts to second order and their bispectrum.	G. Marozzi
15:30-16:00	Coffee Break
16:00-17:45
	40+5	Non-primordial (late) Non-Gaussianities	R. Scoccimarro
	20+2.5	Euclid and the primordial universe	Y. Mellier
	20+2.5	News from the Dark Energy Survey (DES)	A. Benoît-Levy
	15	Concluding remarks	F. Bouchet & J. Martin