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Focus week on non-Gaussianities in the sky

We project a workshop on non-gaussianity in cosmology, including CMB anisotropy, Large Scale Structure and inflation. The daily schedule will include a few presentations and plenty of time for informal discussions.

Dates:	April 6-10, 2009
Place:	Media Hall, 1st floor of Kashiwa Library, the University of Tokyo
Organizers:	Lev Kofman (CITA) Shinji Mukohyama (IPMU)
Speakers:	Neil Barnaby (CITA) Francis Bernardeau (Saclay) J. Richard Bond (CITA) Neal Dalal (CITA) Andrei Frolov (Simon Fraser) Eiichiro Komatsu (Texas/IPMU) Shinji Mukohyama (IPMU) Michael Nolta (CITA) Misao Sasaki (YITP) Uros Seljak (Berkeley) Leonardo Senatore (Princeton/Harvard) Jonathan Sievers (CITA) Fuminobu Takahashi (IPMU) Takahiro Tanaka (YITP) Benjamin Wandelt (Illinois)

Schedule:

6 (Monday)

10:00 - 10:05		Shinji Mukohyama (IPMU) "Opening remark"
10:05 - 10:15		Hitoshi Murayama (IPMU) "Welcome address"
10:15 - 11:15		J. Richard Bond (CITA) "NonGaussianity: then and now"
11:15 - 11:45		break
11:45 - 12:45		Benjamin Wandelt (Illinois) "Primordial Non-Gaussianity and the CMB"
12:45 - 14:00		break
14:00 - 15:00		Michael Nolta (CITA) "Limits on f_NL from WMAP5"
15:00 - 15:30		break
15:30 - 16:30		Leonardo Senatore (Princeton/Harvard) "The Effective Field Theory of Inflation and non-Gaussianities in the sky"

7 (Tuesday)

10:00 - 11:00		Fuminobu Takahashi (IPMU) "Non-Gaussianity as a probe into early universe" [video]
11:00 - 11:30		break
11:30 - 12:30		Andrei Frolov (Simon Fraser) "Primordial Non-Gaussianity from Preheating"
12:30 - 14:00		break
14:00 - 15:00		Neil Barnaby (CITA) "Nongaussian Cosmological Fluctuations From Infra-Red Cascading During Inflation" [video]
15:00 - 15:30		break
15:30 - 16:30		Shinji Mukohyama (IPMU) "Higgs phase of gravity and non-Gaussianity from ghost inflation" [video]

8 (Wednesday)

10:00 - 11:00		Misao Sasaki (YITP) "Non-gaussianity from multi-brid inflation"
11:00 - 11:30		break
11:30 - 12:30		Takahiro Tanaka (YITP) "Diagramatic approach for higher order correlation functions"
12:30 - 14:00		break
14:00 - 14:15		Yeinzon Rodriguez Garcia (Antonio Norino) "Statistical anisotropy of the spectrum and bispectrum of zeta from vector field perturbations" [video]
14:15 - 14:30		Shuichiro Yokoyama (Nagoya) "Gravitino dark matter and Non-Gaussianity"
14:30 - 14:45		Kazunori Nakayama (ICRR) "Non-Gaussianity from isocurvature perturbations"
14:45 - 15:00		Yuichi Takamizu (Waseda) "Non-Gaussianities beyond delta N"
15:00 - 15:30		break
15:30 - 17:00		IPMU Colloquium by Ruth Gregory (Durham)

9 (Thursday)

10:00 - 11:00		Francis Bernardeau (Saclay) "CMB non-Gaussianities, from multiple-field inflation to recombination" [video]
11:00 - 11:30		break
11:30 - 11:45		Vernizzi Filippo (Saclay) "Sachs-Wolfe effet at second order" [video]
11:45 - 12:00		Daisuke Nitta (Tohoku) "CMB bispectrum from products of the first-order perturbations"
12:00 - 12:15		Antonio Enea Romano (YITP) "Effects of particle production during inflation"
12:15 - 12:30		Yuko Urakawa (Waseda) "Influence on observation from IR divergence during inflation"
12:30 - 14:00		break
14:00 - 15:00		Jonathan Sievers (CITA) "Recent developments in high-l CMB" [video]
15:00 - 15:30		break
15:30 - 15:45		Tomo Takahashi (Saga) "Non-Gaussianity in the Curvaton Scenario"
15:45 - 16:00		Takeshi Kobayashi (Tokyo/IPMU) "Curvatons in Warped Throats" [video]
16:00 - 16:15		Kazunori Kohri (Lancaster) "Non-gaussianity in preheating"
16:15 - 16:30		break
16:30 - 16:45		Patricio Vielva (IFCA) "Analysis on non-Gaussian CMB maps based on the N-pdf" [video]
16:45 - 17:00		Belen Barreiro (IFCA) "Anomalous low variance in the WMAP data"
17:00 - 17:15		Enrique Martinez-Gonzalez (IFCA) " On the texture evidence in WMAP data" [video]
17:15 - 17:30		Andres Curto-Martin (IFCA) "Constraints on primordial non-Gaussianity with the CMB" [video]
18:00 -		banquet

10 (Friday)

10:00 - 11:00		Neal Dalal (CITA) "Non-Gaussianity in the Large Scale Structure"
11:00 - 11:30		break
11:30 - 11:45		Annalisa Pillepich (ETH Zurich) "Constraining primordial non Gaussianity from the large-scale structure of the universe"
11:45 - 12:00		Kazuya Koyama (Portsmouth) "Signature of Primordial Non-Gaussianity in Large Scale Structure"
12:00 - 12:15		Takahiro Nishimichi (Tokyo) "Bispectrum and nonlinear biasing in primordially non-Gaussian universe"
12:15 - 12:30		Rennan Barkana (Tel Aviv) "The non-Gaussian PDF of 21-cm fluctuations" [video]
12:30 - 14:00		break
14:00 - 15:00		Uros Seljak (Berkeley) "Non-gaussianity and large scale structure: progress report"
15:00 - 15:30		break
15:30 - 16:30		Eiichiro Komatsu (Texas/IPMU) "Some new calculations of the effects of primordial non-Gaussianity on the large-scale structure (TBD) & Conference Summary"

Contributed talk:	Those who wish to apply for a contributed talk are requested to send the title and abstract to the registration form before March 20th, 2009 (JST).
Registration:	If you would like to attend, please register on-line.
Registration Deadline:	March 27th, 2009 (JST)

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