Venue: Board Room, Physics Department, Rutherford Lab, McGill University
Day 1: Friday March 16
Morning Session: Dark Matter and Particle Physics
| 9:00-9:25 Robert Brandenberger (McGill): Welcome and Introduction. (Coffee and bagels provided) |
| 9:30-9:55 Chen Sun (Dartmouth): New Astrophysical Probes of Beyond the Standard Model Physics |
| 10:00-10:25 Djuna Croon (Dartmouth): Particle phenomenology with the Gravitational Wave Background |
| 11:00-11:25 Elisa Ferreira (McGill): A Unified Superfluid Dark Sector |
| 11:30-11:55 Aaron Vincent (Queens U.): Dark Matter and Neutrinos |
12:00-2:30 lunch (provided) and time to work
Afternoon Session: Black Holes and Gravity
| 2:30-2:55 Valerio Faraoni (Bishops): Using the quasilocal energy in cosmology |
| 3:00-3:25 David Kastor (UMass Amherst): Cosmic Hair |
| 4:00-4:25 Ruth Gregory (Durham): Fun with Black Holes |
| 4:30-4:55 Jennie Traschen (UMass Amherst): Evolving black holes in inflation |
Day 2: Saturday March 17
Morning Session: Early Universe Cosmology I
| 9:00-9:25 Bagels and coffee |
| 9:30-9:55 Lorenzo Sorbo (UMass Amherst): Phenomenology of fermion production during axion inflation |
| 10:00-10:25 Heling Deng (Tufts): Primordial Black Hole Formation by Vacuum Bubbles |
| 11:00-11:25 Jerome Quintin (McGill): Saving the matter bounce with massive gravity? |
| 11:30-11:55 Masaki Yamada (Tufts): Inflation in random Gaussian landscapes |
12:00-2:30 lunch and time to work
Afternoon Session: Early Universe Cosmology II
| 2:30-2:55 Damian Sowinski (Dartmouth): The Secret Songs of Oscillons |
| 3:00-3:25 Stephon Alexander (Brown): Chiral Gravitational Waves and Baryon Superfluid Dark Matter |
| 4:00-4:25 Evan McDonough (Brown): The Chirality of Primordial Gravitational Waves |
Day 3: Sunday March 18
Morning Session: The Late Universe
| 9:00-9:25 Coffee and bagels. |
| 9:30-9:55 Disrael Camargo (McGill): Signature of Cosmic String Wakes in N-Body Simulations |
| 10:00-10:25 Ken Olum (Tufts): Gravitational wave background from cosmic strings |
| 11:00-11:25 Ashley Perko (Dartmouth): Prospects for an effective theory of line-intensity mapping |
| 12:00 End of the formal part of the workshope |