Cosmic Genesis and Fundamental Physics --
Exploration of Particle, Astro-, Nuclear, and Gravitational Physics,
October 28-30, 1999, Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, California

Program Topics

Updated 27 October with the final published agenda; the conference is now underway.
This is the first in a series of workshops; the next will be held in Aspen, Colorado, January 30-February 5, 2000.

Time Envelope

Registration and Welcome: Wednesday, October 27, Doubletree Hotel, 4:30-6:30 pm.
Technical Program: Thursday through Saturday, October 28-30, Sonoma State. Registration continues 8 a.m. to noon Thursday, on campus. The end of the conference is 6:30 p.m. Saturday, October 30 (not 5:30 as indicated earlier).

You can now download the latest draft agenda in PDF (Adobe Acrobat) format.

Below is the structure of the program as it stood on August 1. We are no longer maintaining this information—it is left up for your convenience in case you want to contact the Superconvenors of specific areas. The Acrobat version is official.

I. THE ORIGIN OF THE UNIVERSE

Superconvenors:
Marc Kamionkowski, Caltech (Web page | e-mail)
Leslie Rosenberg, MIT (Web page | e-mail)
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A. The string era
1. developing models
2. testing models
B. The inflationary era
1. testing models
2. the gravity wave background
3. preheating/reheating
C. Baryo/lepto genesis
1. connection to CP
2. antimatter today
D. Quark/hadron transition
E. Relic origins
1. dark matter
2. cosmic defects/phase transitions
3. neutrinos

II. EVOLUTION OF THE UNIVERSE TO ITS PRESENT STATE

Superconvenors:
Wendy Freedman, Observatories of the Carnegie Institute of Washington
Craig Hogan, University of Washington (Web | e-mail)
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A. The cosmic microwave background radiation
B. The dark age
1. what are observables?
2. what is interesting?
C. The universe at redshift 3-10
1. early structure formation
D. Chemical evolution
E. Cosmological parameters
F. Transients
1. bursts (x-ray, gamma-ray, optical, AGN)
2. other time-domain phenomena

III. COMPOSITION OF THE UNIVERSE

Superconvenors:
Josh Grindlay, Harvard
Steve Ritz, NASA-Goddard Space Flight Center
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Note: For the time being, the latest information for Topic III is being maintained by Steve Ritz at his own Web site.

A. "Normal" matter
1. stars
2. galaxies
3. clusters
B. Dark matter and energy
1. direct searches
2. indirect searches
C. Cosmic rays
1. neutrinos
2. high-energy photons
3. ultra-high-energy cosmic rays
4. antimatter
D. Diffuse cosmic fluxes
1. cosmic microwave background
2. x-rays
3. gamma rays
4. neutrinos

IV. STRUCTURE OF THE UNIVERSE AND OF PHYSICAL LAW

Superconvenors:
Roberto Peccei, UCLA (Web page | e-mail)
David Spergel, Princeton (Web page | e-mail)
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A. The arrangement of matter in the universe
1. large-scale structure surveys
2. weak lensing
3. cosmic flows
B. Probing the desert, the GUT scale, and the Planck scale
1. the nature of the vacuum
2. Lambda, quintessence, etc.
  a. spontaneous symmetry breaking
fundamental conservation laws
1. baryon-number violation
2. violation of CP, CPT, Lorentz, QFT, etc.
gravity
1. non-Newtonian
  1.black holes
2. non-Einsteinian
  1.equivalence principle
  2.dilatons
  3.departures from inverse square
  4.braneology/bulkology

The end of the conference is at 6:30 p.m. Saturday, October 30.

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