Rencontres du Vietnam: Cosmology 2013

The scientific program merges subjects of the 2 conferences:
Cosmology in the Planck Era
Hot Topics in General Relativity and Gravitation

Monday July 29^th
Morning Session 1: Opening
09:00	Welcome and Presentation of ICISE: International Center for Interdisciplinary Science and Education Jean Trân Thanh Vân (Rencontres du Vietnam) (pdf)
Morning Session 2: CMB & Cosmology Chairperson: Ken Ganga (APC, Paris)
09:20	The Planck mission Paolo Natoli (University of Ferrara) (pdf)
09:50	The Planck products Maude Le Jeune (APC, Paris) (pdf)
10:30 Coffee Break
Morning Session 3: CMB & Cosmology Chairperson: Ken Ganga (APC, Paris)
11:00	Planck constraints on primordial non-Gaussianity Michele Liguori (University of Padova) (pdf)
11:30	First characterisation of the Planck all-sky catalogue of high-z source candidates Ludovic Montier (IRAP, Toulouse) (pdf)
11:50	The QUIJOTE experiment: status and first views on radiosources with the Multi-Frequency Instrument Marcos Lopez Caniego (Instituto de Fisica de Cantabria, Santander) (pdf)
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch
Afternoon Session 1: CMB & Cosmology Chairperson: Walter Gear (Cardiff University)
14:00	Cosmological parameters from Planck and other datasets Paolo Natoli (University of Ferrara) (pdf)
14:30	Planck Lensing Aurelien Benoît-Lévy (University College London) (pdf)
15:00	The Planck Catalogue of Compact Sources Marcos Lopez Caniego (Instituto de Fisica de Cantabria, Santander) (pdf)
15:20 Coffee Break
Afternoon Session 2: CMB & Cosmology Chairperson: Walter Gear (Cardiff University)
16:00	The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: recent results, ACTPol status, and future plans Mike Niemack (Cornell University, Ithaca) (pdf)
16:30	Southern African Large Telescope observations of ACT SZ-selected clusters Brian Kirk (Centre for High Performance Computing, Cape Town) (ppt)
16:50	Test of cosmic isotropy: Power asymmetry Yabebal Fantaye (University of Oslo) (pdf)
17:10	QUBIC : a Q & U bolometric interferometer for cosmology Marie-Anne Bigot-Sazy (APC, Paris) (pdf)
19:30 - 21:00 Dinner in Hotel Hai Au (Seagull)

Tuesday July 30^th
Morning Session 1: Experimental gravity and tests of General Relativity Chairperson: Kei-Ichi Maeda (Waseda University, Tokyo)
08:30	Testing general relativity in the strong-field regime Clifford Will (University of Florida, Gainesville) (ppt)
09:00	Equivalence principle and matter wave interferometry Luc Blanchet (IAP, Paris) (pdf)
09:20	From configuration to dynamics -- Emergence of Lorentz signature in classical field theory Shinji Mukohyama (Kavli IPMU and Univ of Tokyo) (pdf)
09:40	On negative mass in de Sitter space-time Manu Paranjape (Université de Montréal) (pdf)
10:00 Coffee Break
Morning Session 2: Experimental gravity and tests of General Relativity Chairperson: Shinji Mukohyama (Kavli IPMU and Univ of Tokyo)
10:30	Energy-momentum inequalities for asymptotically anti-de Sitter spacetimes Naqing Xie (Fudan University, Shanghai) (pdf)
10:50	Point massive particle in General Relativity Mikhail Katanaev (Steklov Mathematical Institute, Moscow) (pdf)
11:10	BICEP2/Keck Hien T. Nguyen (JPL Caltech, Pasadena) (pdf)
11:50 Group Photo (Reception Hall)
12:00 - 14:00 Lunch
Afternoon Session 1: Alternative gravity theories Chairperson: Clifford Will (University of Florida, Gainesville)
14:00	Dynamics of bigravity and general relativity Kei-Ichi Maeda (Waseda University, Tokyo) (pdf)
14:30	Modified gravity and binary pulsar tests Claudia De Rham (Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland) (pdf)
15:00	Massive gravity and cosmology Shinji Mukohyama (Kavli IPMU and Univ of Tokyo) (pdf)
15:30 Coffee Break
Afternoon Session 2: Alternative gravity theories Chairperson: Alain Blanchard (IRAP, Toulouse)
16:00	The MOND phenomenology Benoit Famaey (University of Strasbourg) (pdf)
16:30	Bimetric MOND gravity (BIMOND) Moti Milgrom (Weizmann Institute, Rehovot) (pdf)
17:00	Gravitational polarization and MOND Luc Blanchet (IAP, Paris) (pdf)
19:30 - 21:00 Dinner in Hotel Hai Au (Seagull)

Wednesday July 31^st
07:15 - 12:00 Excursions
12:00 - 14:00 Lunch
Afternoon Session 1: Dark matter Chairperson: Yannick Giraud-Héraud (APC, Paris)
14:00	Search for dark matter at LHC Naoko Kanaya (ICEPP, University of Tokyo) (pdf)
14:30	PAMELA results, after more Than Six Years of Cosmic Rays Investigation, and indirect DM searches Francesco Cafagna (INFN Sezione di Bari) (pdf)
15:00	AMS Results William Gillard (LPSC, Grenoble) (pdf)
15:30 Coffee Break
Afternoon Session 2: Dark matter Chairperson: Yannick Giraud-Héraud (APC, Paris)
16:00	Direct Dark matter searches Bruno Serfass (University of Berkeley) (pdf)
16:30	Constraints on Dark Matter from Compact Stars Petr Tinyakov (Université Libre de Bruxelles) (pdf)
17:00	Debate on Dark Matter & MOND Moderator: Clifford Will (University of Florida, Gainesville) (pptx)
19:30 - 21:00 Dinner in Hotel Hai Au (Seagull)

Thursday August 1^st
Morning Session 1: Gravitational waves (experimental and theoretical) Chairperson: Luc Blanchet (IAP, Paris)
08:30	New concepts in gravitational wave detection David Blair (University of Western Australia, Perth) (pdf)
09:00	Current status and future prospects of gravitational wave detectors Gabriela Gonzalez (Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge) (pptx)
09:30	Virgo the French-Italian project for detecting gravitational waves Nary Man (OCA, Nice) (pdf)
10:00 Coffee Break
Morning Session 2: Gravitational waves (experimental and theoretical) - Astrophysics of compact objects Chairperson: Gabriela Gonzalez (Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge)
10:30	KAGRA large-scale cryogenic gravitational wave telescope Shinji Miyoki (ICRR, University of Tokyo) (pdf)
11:00	Gravitational waves from spinning black hole binaries Sylvain Marsat (IAP, Paris) (pdf)
11:20	Quantum friction in neutron stars Brahim Lamine (IRAP, Toulouse) (pdf)
11:40	The Spherically-Symmetric Pressure Free Collapse of the White-Black Hole VO Van On (University of Thu Dau Mot) (pptm)
12:00 - 14:00 Lunch
Afternoon Session: Inflationary Models Chairperson: David Blair (University of Western Australia, Perth)
14:00	Inflationary models after Planck Jérôme Martin (IAP, Paris) (pptx)
14:50	Cosmological perturbations of a quartet of scalar fields Seoktae Koh (Jeju National University) (pdf)
15:10	Primordial spectra from sudden turning trajectory Masahide Yamaguchi (Tokyo Institute of Technology) (pdf)
15:30 Coffee Break
16:30 Visit to the site of ICISE
19:30 - 23:00 Conference Dinner

Friday August 2^nd
Morning Session 1: Dark energy Chairperson: Pierre Astier (LPNHE, Paris)
08:30	Cosmology with Type-1A Supernovae Marc Betoule (LPNHE, Paris) (pdf)
09:00	The future of BAO with BOSS, eBOSS, and DESI Steven BAILEY (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab) (pdf)
09:30	BOSS (Lyman alpha forest) Graziano Rossi (CEA, Saclay) (pdf)
10:00 Coffee Break
Morning Session 2: Dark energy Chairperson: Pierre Astier (LPNHE, Paris)
10:30	A detailed view of large-scale structure at redshift ~1 with VIPERS Ben GRANETT (NAF OA, Brera) (pdf)
11:00	Cosmology with radio surveys Catherine CRESS (Centre for High Performance Computing, Cape Town) (pdf)
11:30	Calibration techniques for the LSST camera Francesca Villa (LPSC, Grenoble) (pdf)
12:00 - 14:00 Lunch
Afternoon Session 1: Dark energy Chairperson: Jérôme Martin (IAP, Paris)
14:00	From the quantum vacuum to the observed acceleration? Alain Blanchard (IRAP, Toulouse) (pdf)
14:30	The FLG model faced to anthropic issues Roland Triay (CPT, Marseille) (pdf)
15:00	Timescape cosmology: Modifying the geometry of the Universe David Wiltshire (University of Canterbury, Christchurch) (pdf)
15:30 Coffee Break
Afternoon Session 2: Dark energy Chairperson: David Wiltshire (University of Canterbury, Christchurch)
16:00	Virialisation-induced curvature vs dark energy Jan Ostrowski (Nicolaus Copernicus University, Torun) (pdf)
16:20	Testing the Spatial Curvature of FL Models Roland Triay (CPT, Marseille) (pdf)
16:40	Debate on Dark Energy & the Cosmological Constant Moderator: David Blair (University of Western Australia, Perth) (pptx)
19:30 - 21:00 Dinner in Hotel Hai Au (Seagull)

Saturday August 3^rd
Closing Session: Summary Talks Chairperson: Jean Trân Thanh Vân (Rencontres du Vietnam)
09:00	Gravitation Luc Blanchet (IAP, Paris) (pdf)
09:40	Cosmology Alain Blanchard (IRAP, Toulouse) (pptx)
10:20	Concluding remarks
11:30 - 12:30 Lunch in Hotel Hai Au (Seagull)
13:00 Departure for the Post-Conference Tour

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