APCTP-IEU Focus Program

Cosmology and Fundamental Physics

June 6 (Mon) - Jue 18 (Sat), 2011
APCTP Headquarter, Postech
Pohang, Korea

The Focus Program is run in a free-style format where participants can join series of lectures and discussions on the subjects listed below, ideally leading to scientitic collaborations. This program is invitation only.

Topics

• String Cosmology
• Inflation and the High Energy Universe
• Non-Gaussianity in Cosmic Structure
• Dark Energy and Dark Matter
• Gravity and Quantum Cosmology

Core Organizers

• Changrim Ahn (IEU; Chair) ahn at ewha.ac.kr
• Chanju Kim (IEU) cjkim at ewha.ac.kr
• Frederico Arroja (IEU) arrojaf at ewha.ac.kr
• Hyun Seok Yang (IEU) hsyang at ewha.ac.kr

Participants

• Changrim Ahn (IEU)
- "Asymptotically safe cosmology"
• Frederico Arroja (IEU)
- "Non-Gaussianity from inflation with a single scalar field"
• Plamen Bozhilov (IEU)
• Ki-Young Choi (Pusan)
- "Non-Gaussianity from multi-field models"
• Jai-chan Hwang (Kyungpook)
- "Why the comoving gauge is unique for describing cosmological perturbations"
• Eunhwa Jeong (IEU)
- "Topological defects and cosmic strings"
• Gungwon Kang (KISTI)
- "Gregory-Laflamme instability"
• Shinsuke Kawai (Sungkyunkwan)
- "Higgs inflation"
• Yongyeon Keum (Seoul)
- "Search for the dark-energy with long-gamma ray bursts"
• Chanju Kim (IEU)
- "RG improved cosmological evolution and dark energy"
• Kyung Kiu Kim (IEU)
- "Can we constrain models from the string theory by non-gaussianity?"
• Yoonbai Kim (Sungkyunkwan)
- "Compact hyperbolic space as extra dimentions"
• Seoktae Koh (Jeju)
- "Isocurvature perturbations in nonminimal coupled inflation"
• Seokcheon Lee (Academia Sinica)
- "Linear growth factor in generalized gravity theories"
• Van Putten Maurice (KIAS)
- "Entropy in black hole interactions"
• Soonkeon Nam (Kyunghee)
- "String cosmology - Kahler moduli inflation"
• Chan-Gyung Park (Kyungpook)
- "Observational constraints on some dark energy models"
• Muin Park (Gunsan)
- "Living with the dark energy in Horava gravity"
• Federico Piazza (APC)
- "Modifying gravity in the infra red by imposing an "ultra-strong" equivalence principle"
• Graziano Rossi (KIAS)
- "Nonlinear dynamical models and their application in cosmology"
• Arman Shafieloo (IEU)
- "Inflation, primordial spectrum and cosmological parameter estimation"
• Jiro Soda (Kyoto)
- "Statistical symmetry breaking in the CMB"
• Yong-Seon Song (KIAS)
- "Cosmology with spectroscopic wide-deep field survey"
• Hyun Seok Yang (IEU)
- "Universe or Multiverse?"

Program

Information for Foreign Participants

• ACCOMMODATION: Ramada Encore Hotel (Pohang) (Map)
• How to get to APCTP
• Visa, Currency and other information about Korea
• Pohang weather

Sponsor

APCTP(Asia Pacific Center for Theoretical Physics)
The WCU (World Class University) Project