Light Fields in Particles, Strings & Cosmology

DESY, Seminar Room 2, building 2a, from 2 February 2010, 11 a.m. until 3 February, 3.30 pm.

Confirmed speakers:

R. Brustein (Beer-Sheva): Small field modes of inflation and their observable consequences
C. Burrage (Hamburg): Chameleons in Cosmology and in the Laboratory
B. de Carlos (Southhampton): Generalised fluxes, moduli fixing and cosmological implications
M. Goodsell (Hamburg): Light hidden U(1)s and the LARGE volume scenario
T. Grimm (Bonn): F-theory compactifications and N=1 duality
Z. Lalak (Warsaw): Cosmological vacuum selection and metastable supersymmetry breaking
O. Lebedev (Hamburg): Heterotic NMSSMs
E. Pajer (Cornell): Inflation and resonant non-Gaussianity from axion monodromy
S. Ramos (Hamburg): Moduli stabilization in an expanding universe
G. Ross (Oxford): Hybrid natural (low scale) inflation from non Abelian discrete symmetry
T. van Riet (Uppsala): de Sitter vacua at string tree-level?
T. Weigand (Heidelberg): Spectral covers for F-theory GUT model building
T. Wrase (Hannover): On the Cosmology of Type II Flux Compactifications

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