ASU-Tufts Joint Workshop on Cosmic Strings

2014 ASU-TUFTS JOINT WORKSHOP ON COSMIC STRINGS

Sunday February 2^nd, 2014 Residence Inn Marriott Tempe (510 S. Forest Ave. Tempe, AZ)

6:00-8:00

Reception at the Rooftop of Residence Inn Marriott (11^th Floor, Rooftop Patio, Alta)

Monday February 3^rd, 2014 Memorial Union 228 Cochise

9:00-9:10

Welcome Address by Tanmay Vachaspati

Session 1

Chair: Alex Vilenkin

9:10-9:35

Qaisar Shafi - Inflation and Cosmic Strings (25')

9:35-9:55

Junichi Yokoyama - Cosmic Strings and Inflation (20')

9:55-10:15

Henry Tye - Multi-throat String Compactifications and Spectrum of Cosmic String Tension (20')

10:15-10:35

Ken Olum - Large Parallel String Network Simulations (20')

10:35-11:00

Coffee Break (25')

Session 2

Chair: Tom Kibble

11:00-11:25

Ben Shlaer - The Number, Size, and Speed of Loops (25')

11:25-11:45

Jose Blanco-Pillado - Shapes of Loops (20')

11:45-12:10

Christophe Ringeval - Loops (25')

12:10-12:30

Discussion (20')

12:30-2:00

Lunch at Engrained Cafe (90')

Session 3

Chair: Paul Shellard

2:00-2:20

David Daverio - Massively Parallel Simulation of Abelian Higgs Model: LATfield2d and LAH (20')

2:20-2:40

Mark Hindmarsh - High Resolution Simulations of Strings in the Abelian Higgs Model (20')

2:40-3:00

Jon Urrestilla - CMB Predictions from New Abelian Higgs Simulation in the Lattice (20')

3:00-3:20

Levon Pogosian - An Update on CMBACT (20')

3:20-3:50

Coffee Break (30')

Session 4

Chair: Robert Brandenberger

3:50-4:10

Ana Achucarro - Intercommutation Puzzles (20')

4:10-4:35

Anastasios Avgoustidis - Analytic Modelling of Cosmic String and Superstring Networks (25')

4:35-5:00

Vitaly Vanchurin - Kinetic Theory of Strings (25')

5:00-5:20

Daniel Schubring - Fluid Mechanics of Strings (20')

5:20-5:40

Discussion (20')

6:30-9:00

Dinner at Caffe Boa (398 S Mill Ave, Tempe)

Tuesday February 4^th, 2014 Memorial Union 228 Cochise

Session 5

Chair: Ana Achucarro

9:00-9:20

Andrei Lazanu - The Power Spectrum of Nambu-Goto Cosmic Strings (20')

9:20-9:40

Adam Moss - The Cosmic String CMB Power Spectrum and Constraints from the Planck Satellite (20')

9:40-10:00

Donough Regan - Matter Power Spectrum and Bispectrum of Cosmic String Wakes (20')

10:00-10.20

Paul Shellard - Planck Non-Gaussianity Searches for Cosmic Strings (20')

10:20-10:50

Coffee Break (30')

Session 6

Chair: Henry Tye

10:50-11:10

Robert Brandenberger - Searching for Cosmic Strings in New Observational Windows (20')

11:10-11:30

Oscar Hernandez - How to See the Dark: Signatures of Strings in the 21 cm Radiation from High-redshift Hydrogen (20')

11:30-11:50

Daniele Steer - Radio Bursts from Superconducting Strings (20')

11:50-12:10

Eray Sabancilar - Particle Radiation and Cosmic Ray Signals from Cosmic Strings (20')

12:10-1:40

Lunch at Engrained Cafe (90')

Session 7

Chair: Ruth Gregory

1:40-2:00

Jeff Hyde - Cosmic Strings in the Dark Sector (20')

2:00-2:20

Andrew Long - Light from Dark Strings (20')

2:20-2:40

Mairi Sakellariadou - Strings with Junctions: Cuspy Events and Unzipping Mechanisms (20')

2:40-3:05

Richard Battye - Constraints on Cosmic String from Pulsar Timing Arrays (25')

3:05-3:30

Coffee Break (25')

Session 8

Chair: Qaisar Shafi

3:30-3:50

Daisuke Yamauchi - Weak Lensing of CMB by Cosmic Strings and its Detectability (20')

3:50-4:10

David Chernoff - Microlensing and Gravitational Emission by the Galaxy's Superstring Loops (20')

4:10-4:30

Discussion (20')

5:00-5:15

Shuttle to Botanical Garden (Departs from Residence Inn at 5:00)

6:30-9:00

Dinner at Botanical Garden (Binns Wildflower Pavillion)

Wednesday February 5^th, 2014 Memorial Union 241A Ventana

Session 9

Chair: Ken Olum

9:00-9:25

Leandros Perivolaropoulos - Topological Quintessence: Do We Live in the Core of a Cosmic Defect? (25')

9:25-9:45

Ruth Gregory - Twisting Strings and Black Holes (20')

9:45-10:05

Jeremy Wachter - Electromagnetic Back-reaction from Currents on a Straight String (20')

10:05-10.25

Johanna Karouby - Baryon Production from Embedded Metastable Strings (20')

10:25-10:50

Coffee Break (25')

Session 10

Chair: Mark Hindmarsh

10:50-11:10

Patrick Peter - Microscopic Structure of Cosmic Strings (20')

11:10-11:30

Dimitri Skliros - Highly Excited Strings in String Perturbation Theory (20')

11:30-11:55

Adolfo del Campo - Testing Universality of Topological Defect Formation: An Update (25')

11:55-12:15

Discussion and Closing Remarks (20')

12:15-12:30

Pick up Box Lunch

Hike (To be determined)

Schedule and Talks