November 7

Place: MPA Lecture Hall

Session 3: Multi field (continued)

10:00-10:25 Modulated reheating mechanismMasahide Yamaguchi [20+5]

10:25-10:50 Non-Gaussianity from adiabatic and isocurvature perturbationsDavid Langlois [20+5]

10:50-11:15 Prediction from multi-field inflationDavid Seery  [20+5]

11:15-11:40 Break [25]

11:40-12:30 Discussion Session 3 [50] Moderator: Masahide Yamaguchi

  • What are the promising (general) ways to produce fNL~O(10)? 
  • How can we test multi-field models? Can we ever rule them out in general? 
  • Experimental signatures of different entropy perturbations?

SUMMARY OF DISCUSSION SESSION 3: available here

12:30-14:00 Lunch [90]

Session 4: Large-scale structure theory

14:00-14:25 Amplitude and k-dependence of non-Gaussian biasVincent Desjacques [20+5]

14:25-14:50 The non-Gaussian signal in the galaxy bispectrumDonghui Jeong [20+5]

14:50-15:15 The halo bispectrum in N-body simulations with non-Gaussian initial conditionsEmiliano Sefusatti [20+5]

15:15-15:45 Break [30]

15:45-16:10 The mass functionMarilena Loverde [20+5]

16:10-17:00 Discussion Session 4 [50] Moderator: Sarah Shandera

  • What more do we need to do on the scale-dependent bias (if any)?
  • Are we confident about the size of the error bars?
  • What else should we be looking? Bispectrum? Trispectrum?

SUMMARY OF DISCUSSION SESSION 4: available here

19:00 Social Dinner at "Augustiner am Dom," Frauenplatz 8 [near U6 station "Marienplatz"]

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