Centre for Theoretical Physics, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi-110025
PROGRAM
Wednesday, 21st December, 2011
Venue: C.I.T. Auditorium, Jamia Millia Islamia.
| Time | Event |
| 9.00 - 9.45 | REGISTRATION |
| 9:45 - 10:15 | INAUGURATION |
| 10:15 - 10:45 | - - - TEA - - - |
Venue: C.I.T. Auditorium, Jamia Millia Islamia.
| Time | Speaker | Title of the Talk |
| Plenary Session Chair: A.N. Mitra | ||
| 10:45 - 11:30 | David Polarski | Dark Energy: Problems and Outlook
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| 11:30 - 12:15 | Gil Holder | Constraints on structure formation using the South Pole Telescope |
| 12.15 - 12.30 | - - - TEA - - - | |
| Plenary Session Chair: S.G. Ghosh | ||
| 12:30 - 1:15 | Eric Linder | The Paths of Gravity
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| 1:15 - 2:30 | - - - LUNCH - - - | |
| Contributed Talks Chair: Vikram Soni | ||
| 2.30 - 2.50 | Arman Shafielo | Cosmographic Degeneracy |
| 2.50 - 3.10 | Maria-Noelle Celerier | Is dark energy the only way to fit the observational data? |
| 3.10 - 3.25 | Amna Ali | Modified gravity a la Galileon: Late time cosmic acceleration and observational constraints |
| 3.25 - 3.45 | - - - TEA - - - | |
| Contributed Talks Chair: | ||
| 3:45 - 4.00 | Rizwan Ansari | Reconstruction of dark energy models and effect of dark energy sound speed |
| 4.00 - 4.15 | C.P. Singh | Emergent Universe with Scalar (or Tachyonic) Field in Higher Derivative Theory |
| 4.15 - 4.30 | Sanjeev Kalita | Growth suppression in presence of decaying “cosmological constant” and implications |
Thursday, 22nd December, 2011
Venue: C.I.T. Auditorium, Jamia Millia Islamia.
| Time | Speaker | Title of the Talk |
| Plenary Session Chair: Sudhakar Panda | ||
| 9:30 - 10:15 | Sandip Trivedi | (To be announced) |
| 10:15 - 11:00 | Alex. Vikman | Cosmology and Hydrodynamics with Kinetic Gravity Braiding |
| 11.00 - 11.30 | - - - TEA - - - | |
| Plenary Session Chair: T.R. Seshadri | ||
| 11:30 - 12:15 | Alexandre Refregier | Current and Future Constraints on Dark Energy
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| 12:15 - 1:00 | David Parkinson | Cosmology Results from the WiggleZ Dark Energy Survey |
| 1:00 - 2:15 | - - - LUNCH - - - | |
| Contributed Talks Chair: Narayan Banerjee | ||
| 2:15 - 2:35 | Neelima Sehgal | Understanding Dark Energy with ACT and ACTpol |
| 2:35 - 2:55 | Nishant Agrawal | Cascading cosmology: Searching for imprints of a higher-dimensional universe |
| 2:55 - 3:10 | Isha Pahwa | Higher Dimensional Cosmological Models- An alternative explanation for late time cosmic acceleration |
| 3.10 - 3.30 | - - - TEA - - - | |
| Contributed Talks Chair: Subhabrata Majumdar | ||
| 3:30 - 3:45 | Gaveshna Gupta | Constraining Thawing Quintessence |
| 3:45 - 4:00 | Shruti Thakur | Non-minimally coupled f(R) Cosmology |
| 4:00 - 4:15 | Mehdi Kalam | Perfect fluid dark matter |
| 4:15 - 4:30 | Anirudh Pradhan | Accelerating dark energy models in Bianchi type-V space-time with variable deceleration parameter |
| 7:30 PM | CONFERENCE DINNER, Venue: LAWN, NEHRU GUEST HOUSE, JMI | |
Friday, 23rd December, 2011
Venue: C.I.T. Auditorium, Jamia Millia Islamia.
| Time | Speaker | Title of the Talk |
| Plenary Session Chair: Debajyoti Choudhury | ||
| 9:30 - 10:15 | Priyamvada Natarajan | Constraining dark energy using cluster strong lensing |
| 10:15 - 11:00 | Adam Amara | Weak Lensing in an Era of Precision Cosmology |
| 11.00 - 11.30 | - - - TEA - - - | |
| Plenary Session Chair: Debashis Ghoshal | ||
| 11:30 - 12:15 | Bharat Ratra | Dark Energy: constant or time variable? |
| Contributed Talks Chair: Afsar Abbas | ||
| 12:15 - 12:30 | Somasri Sen | GCG parametrization for growth function using current constraints |
| 12:30 - 12:45 | N. Chandrachani | Constraining Thawing dark energy using galaxy cluster number counts |
| 12:45 - 2:15 | - - - LUNCH - - - | |
| 2:30 - 3.45 | - - - Discussion Session - - - | |
| 3:45 - 4:15 | - - - T E A - - - | |
| 4:15 - 4:30 | - - - Concluding Remarks - - - | |