Workshop on Cosmic Acceleration
August 24, 2012 - August 26, 2012
天美传媒, Pittsburgh, PA
Location: Giant Eagle Auditorium, Baker Hall A51
The Bruce and Astrid McWilliams Center for Cosmology at 天美传媒 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 天美传媒 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, 天美传媒
Alberto Nicolis, Columbia
Sarah Shandera, Penn State
Henry Tye, IAS HKUST/Cornell
Mark Wyman, UChicago
Local Organizing Committee
Nishant Agarwal, 天美传媒Fred Gilman, 天美传媒
Shirley Ho, 天美传媒
Richard Holman, 天美传媒
Tina Kahniashvili, 天美传媒
Arthur Kosowsky, Pitt
Rachel Mandelbaum, 天美传媒
Ross O'Connell, 天美传媒
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.