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Day 1: Friday October 26
| Friday AM: Overview |
| 9:00 Refreshments |
| 9:30AM Welcome and introduction of participants |
| 10:00 Brief overview of non-superconducting strings: R. Brandenberger |
| 10:30 Brief overview of superconducting strings: T. Vachaspati |
| 11:00 Coffee break |
| 11:30 Status of cosmic string evolution simulations: K. Olum |
| 12:00 Discussion |
| Friday PM: CMB temperature and polarization windows |
| 14:00 CMB polarization: observational progress: G. Holder |
| 14:30 CMB polarization: cosmic string signal: McGill group, L. Pogosian |
| 15:15 Coffee break |
15:45 CMB temperature: what we have learned about strings
and what we will learn: L. Pogosian, R. Danos |
| 16:30 Discussion |
Day 2: Saturday October 27
| Saturday AM: gravitational wave and 21cm windows |
| 9:00 Refreshments |
| 9:30 21cm window: theoretical aspects (U-L. Pen) |
| 10:15 21cm: Cosmic string signal (O. Hernandez) |
| 10:45 Discussion |
| 11:00 Coffee break |
| 12:00 Gravitational wave window: (D. Skliros, …) |
| 12:45 Discussion |
| 13:00 lunch (on your own) |
| Saturday PM: early structure formation window |
| 14:30 Observational window: T. Webb |
| 15:15 Cosmic string signal I: B. Shlaer |
| 15:45 Cosmic string signal II: F. Duplessis |
| 16:15 Discussion |
| 16:30 Coffee |
| 17:00 General Discussion |
Day 3: Sunday October 28
| Sunday AM: 21cm and cosmic rays windows |
| 9:00 Refreshments |
| 9:30 21cm window continued: observational status: M. Dobbs |
| 10:15 Discussion |
| 10:30 Coffee |
| 11:00 Cosmic ray window (Y. Cai, P. Scott) |
| 11:45 Discussion |
| 12:45 End of the formal part of the workshop |
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