Place: MPA Lecture Hall
10:00-10:05 Welcome, Eiichiro Komatsu [20+5]
Opening Talk
10:05-10:50 Non-Gaussianities, Matias Zaldarriaga [40+5]
Session 1: What does single-field inflation actually predict? How about soft limits?
10:50-11:15 Single-field consistency relations, Paolo Creminelli [20+5]
11:15-11:40 Break [25]
11:40-12:05 Quasi-single field inflation and critical test of multi-field inflation, Xingang Chen [20+5]
12:05-12:30 Effects of heavy fields, Mark Jackson [20+5]
12:30-14:00 Lunch [90]
14:00-14:25 Non-Bunch-Davies vacuum, Sarah Shandera [20+5]
14:25-14:50 On squeezed limits from single-field inflation, Raphael Flauger [20+5]
14:50-15:20 Break [30]
15:20-16:10 Discussion Session 1 [50] Moderator: Xingang Chen
- Are we ready to declare that single-field models are ruled out if the local-form fNL is found?
- To what extend can we declare this, what is the experimental limitation?
- Can we make this statement more precise?
- What are the soft limits good for?
- What kind of underlying physics can we learn from the properties of soft limits, for quasi-single-field and multi-field models?
- How can we use the soft limit properties to rule out or rule in inflation models?
SUMMARY OF DISCUSSION SESSION 1: available here
16:10-16:30 Poster Talks [2x10=20]
- "Non-standard initial states in single-field inflation," Jonathan Ganc
- "Violation of non-Gaussianity consistency relation in a single field inflationary model," Mohammad Hossein Namjoo
- "What does the detection of non-Gaussianity tell us about the standard model of particle physics?" Kohei Kamada
- "Localized features in non-Gaussianity from heavy physics," Ryo Saito
- "Influence of heavy modes on perturbations in multiple field inflation," Shuntaro Mizuno
- "Reheating, multifield inflation and the fate of the primordial observables," Ewan Tarrant
- "Signatures of fermionic preheating," Dustin Lorshbough
- "Non-Gaussian bubbles in the sky," Kazuyuki Sugimura
- "Lensing-Rees-Sciama bispectrum: effects of non-linear matter clustering," Veronika Junk
- "Primordial non-Gaussianity and diffuse Galactic emission," Alessandro Renzi
17:30 Reception at MPA