2003 PiTP

Program Schedule

Prospects in Theoretical Physics

June 30 - July 11, 2003

Tentative Schedule

(Week 1)

June 30

July 1

July 2

July 3

July 4

9:00 am

A. Kosowsky

Friedmann & Kinematic tests

A. Kosowsky

Thermal History

A. Kosowsky

Nucleosynthesis

P. Steinhardt

Quintessence

Morning in NYC at the Hayden Planetarium for a program organized by N. deGrasse Tyson.

Afternoon free.

10:00 am

D. Spergel

Matter content

N. Turok

Inflation

N. Turok

Moduli Space

D. Spergel

CMB

11:00 am

COFFEE BREAK

11:30 am

C. Nappi

Introduction to Strings

C. Nappi

Strings Effective Actions

H. Verlinde

Braneworlds

N. Bahcall

Dark matter

12:30 pm

LUNCH BREAK

2:30 pm

H. Verlinde

Strings/Branes

H. Verlinde

AdS/CFT and cosmology

J. Maldacena

AdS/CFT/dS

J. Maldacena

Perturbation Spectrum

3:30 pm

COFFEE BREAK

4:00 pm

E. Witten

Cosmic Baryogenesis

Public Lectures

5:00 pm
J. Bahcall
How the Sun Shines

5:40 pm
N. Bahcall
The Dark Side of the Universe

E. Witten

CP Violation

E. Witten

Baryon and Lepton Number Violation

(Week

(Week 2)

	July 7	July 8	July 9	July 10	July 11
9:00 am	N. Turok Cyclic Models	U. Seljak Weak Lensing	U. Seljak Lyman Alpha Clouds	Day-long workshop at Princeton University	M. Strauss Large Scale Structure
10:00 am	D. Spergel CMB	A. Petters Strong lensing H, lambda	A. Petters Strong Lensing and Dark Matter		P. Langacker SUSY Phenomenology
11:00 am	COFFEE BREAK
11:30 am	U. Seljak Secondary Anisotropy	P. Steinhardt Inflationary Models	P. Steinhardt Problems in the Cold Dark Matter Model		L. Verde Combining data sets to study cosmology
12:30 pm	LUNCH BREAK
2:30 pm	N. Bahcall Dark energy	P. Langacker Dark matter; Neutrinos	P. Langacker Neutrinos		S. Gubser Strings and preheating
3:30 pm	COFFEE BREAK
4:00 pm	P. Langacker The Standard Model and SUSY	B. Paczynski Stellar evolution	M. Strauss Sloan Digital Sky Survey		J. Peebles Summary and Discussion
8:00 pm			Informal discussion on Strings with Steve Gubser Bloomberg Hall (lecture hall)

9:30 Arrival of Grad. Students - 77th Street between Central Park West and Columbus Avenue

10:10 Review Talk: "The High Redshift Universe" - Zoltan Haiman, Columbia University

10:40 Frontiers Talk: "Globular Clusters and the First Stars" - Jarrod Hurley,
American. Museum of Natural History

11:10 Exhibit Overview: "Einstein's Legacy" - Orsola DeMarco,
American. Museum of Natural History

The afternoon is free. Participants are expected to return to Princeton by train. NJ Transit schedules and assistance with buying return tickets will be provided.

Day-long workshop at Princeton University Physics and Astrophysics Departments