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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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