UK Cosmology Meeting at the University of Wales Swansea
Monday 2nd To Wednesday 4th September 2002

 
 

Provisional Programme
 
 
  Monday 2nd September
 
  2.00-2.10 Welcome


  2.10-2.40 Rolando Cardenas Ortiz

Modelling dark energy with quintessence and a cosmological constant


  2.40-3.10 Sereno Mauro

Theoretical models for quintessence and observational data


  3.10-3.40 Christophe Rhodes

Coupled Quintessence from Braneworlds


  3.40-4.00 Tea


  4.00-5.00 Qaisar Shafi

Inflation


 

Tuesday 3rd September
 
  9.30-10.30 B.S. Sathyaprakash

Observing the Dark Side of the Universe


  10.30-11.00 Coffee


  11.00-11.30 M Guilbert

Gravitational wave bursts from cosmic string cusps


  11.30-12.00 Y.F.J. Lemperiere

The f ate of superconducting cosmic loops


  12.00-12.30 Mark Hindmarsh

Evolution of Defect and Brane Networks


  12.30-1.00 David Wands

Consistency relations from multi-field inflation


  1.00-2.00 Lunch


  2.00-2.30 Paddy Ashcroft

Scalar field dynamics with generalised potentials


  2.30-3.00 Lisa Hall

Perturbations in Warm Inflation


  3.00-3.30 David Parkinson

Correlated perturbations and Realistic Inflationary models


  3.30-4.00 Tea


  4.00-5.00 Mike Hobson

Constraining the cosmological model with the Very Small Array


 
  Wednesday 4th September
 
  9.30-10.00 Pier Stefano Corasaniti

The dark side of the CMB spectrum


  10.00-10.30 David Coule

Entropic and other problems with brane cosmology


  10.30-11.00 Stephen Davis

Gauss-Bonnet Brane Worlds and Self-Tuning


  11.00-11.30 Coffee


  11.30-12.00 Jose J Blanco-Pillado

The Colliding Bubble Braneworld Universe


  12.00-12.30 Jean-luc Lehners

The Cyclic Universe viewed from Heterotic M-theory


  12.30-1.00 Brandon Carter

Symplectic structure in brane mechanics