Cosmic Controversies

[Philip Thrift]

https://voices.uchicago.edu/cosmiccontroversies/

A conference organized by the Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics

Saturday October 5 – Tuesday October 8

UChicago Gleacher Center, Chicago, IL

October 5-8, 2019

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SATURDAY OCTOBER 5

MORNING

7:30am -8:30am

Registration and Continental Breakfast 

8:30am -12:30pm

Framing talk

“Where are we in cosmology today?”

Simon White

Invited talks

1) “What is the resolution of the current H0 discrepancy?”

Convenors: Wendy Freedman and Kimmy Wu

2) “Is a theory beyond Cold Dark Matter needed to describe structure formation?”

Convenors: Chihway Chang and Andrey Kravtsov

AFTERNOON

1:30 – 5:30pm

Panels

“What is the resolution of the current H0 discrepancy?”

Chair: Wendy Freedman; Panelists: George Efstathiou, Adam Riess and Licia Verde

“Is a theory beyond Cold Dark Matter needed to describe structure formation?”

Chair: Andrey Kravtsov; Panelists: Bhuvnesh Jain, Manoj Kaplinghat, and Risa Wechsler

EVENING

Reception

Reception and poster viewing at Gleacher Center

SUNDAY OCTOBER 6

MORNING

9am – 12:30pm

Invited talks

3) “What is the explanation of Cosmic Acceleration?”

Convenors: Josh Frieman and Maca Lagos

4) “Can Inflation be transformed into a fundamental theory of the early Universe?”

Convenors: Wayne Hu and Marco Raveri

AFTERNOON

1:30 – 5:30pm

Panels

“What is the explanation of Cosmic Acceleration? “

Chair: Josh Frieman; Panelists: Andy Albrecht, Saul Perlmutter and Rachel Rosen

“Can Inflation be transformed into a fundamental theory of the early Universe?”

Chair: Wayne Hu; Panelists: Marc Kamionkowski, Justin Khoury and Hirosi Ooguri

EVENING

6:30 – 9:30pm

Banquet

Dinner at UChicago – ERC 161 + atrium

Speaker: Marc Davis

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