Second Northeast String Cosmology Meeting

Friday December 19th, 2003
ISCAP Columbia University
Location: Pupin Laboratories, Room 329

Program:

• 11:00 -12:00 B. Ovrut (Upenn)
  "Big Bang/Big Crunch Cosmology"
• 12:15 -1:15 R. Kolb (FNAL)
  "The Radionactive Universe"
• 1:15 - 3:15 Lunch break
• 3:15- 4:15 H. Verlinde (Princeton)
  "Brane/Flux annihilation and Inflation in String Theory"
• 4:30 - 5:30 G.Dvali (NYU)
  "Inflation on the String Landscape"

Participants:

• V. Balasubramanian (UPenn)
• R. Brandenberger (Brown)
• C. Burgess (McGill)
• J. Cline (McGill)
• S. Dodelson (FNAL) *
• M. Douglas (Rutgers)
• G. Gabadadze (NYU)
• A. Gruzinov (NYU)
• W. Kinney (Buffalo)
• A. Lawrence (Brandeis)
• G. Moore (Rutgers)
• M. Porrati (NYU)
• N. Seiberg (IAS)
• U. Seljak (Princeton) *
• G. Shiu (Wisconsin)
• M. Trodden (Syracuse)
• H. Tye (Cornell)
• A. Vilenkin (Tufts)
• I. Wasserman (Cornell) *

* To be confirmed.