Early Universe Sessions of the Texas Symposium

Organizer: Rocky Kolb, Fermilab & University of Chicago (rocky@rigoletto.fnal.gov)
(please send email to above address with corrections to the program)

EARLY UNIVERSE I
INFLATION AND ITS AFTERMATH

14:00--16:00, Tuesday 17 December

• Inflation, Quantum Gravity, and Generation of Perturbations

  Andrew Liddle (Sussex)
  

  Accurate Determination of
  Inflationary Perturbations

  Martin Bucher (SUNY at Stony Brook)
  

  Non-Gaussian Perturbations from Goldstone
  Modes Generated During Inflation

  Isaac Khlatnikov (Landau Institute)
  

  Quantum and Classical Cosmology with Complex
  Scalar Field (from Instantons to Inflation).

  David Wands (University of Portsmouth)
  

  Metric Perturbations
  in Hybrid Inflation

  Elena Mikheeva (Astro Space Center, Lebedev)
  

  Generation of Gravitational Waves and Scalar
  Perturbations in Hybrid Inflation and the T/S Story

• Preheating and Particle Production after Inflation

  Richard Holman (Carnegie Mellon)
  

  Preheating in
  FRW Universes

  Igor Tkachev (Ohio State)
  

  A Study of the Effects
  of Preheating

  Antonio Riotto (Fermilab)
  

  What is Found Upon Defrosting
  the Universe after Inflation

EARLY UNIVERSE II
PHASE TRANSITIONS, TOPOLOGICAL DEFECTS, AND TOPOLOGY

16:15--18:15, Tuesday 17 December

• Topological Defects

  Edmund Copeland (Sussex)
  

  Analytic Scaling Solutions for Cosmic
  Strings and their Cosmological Implications

  Ruth Gregory (Durham)
  

  Defects in
  String Cosmology

• Cosmological Phase Transitions

  Tetsuya Shiromizu (Tokyo)
  

  The Size of Subcritical Bubbles and
  Weakly First Order Phase Transition

  Hans-Reinhard Muller (Dartmouth)
  

  Numerical and Analytical Studies
  of First Order Phase Transitions

  Jun'ichi Yokoyama (Kyoto)
  

  Numerical Analysis of a Weakly
  First Order Phase Transition

• Topolgy and Other Matters

  Glenn Starkman (Case Western)
  

  The Topology of
  the Universe

  John Dykla (Loyola, Chicago)
  

  How Kaluza-Klein Space
  Became Three Dimensional

  Alexandre Dolgov (TAC, Copenghagen)
  

  Higher Spin Fields and the Problem
  of the Cosmological Constant

  Milan Mijic (Cal State, Los Angeles)
  

  Decoherence in Quantum and
  Inflationary cosmology

EARLY UNIVERSE
POSTER PRESENTATIONS

All Day, Tuesday 17 December

L. Amendola, C. Baccigalupi, and F. Occhionero (Osservatorio Astronomico di Roma)

A Bubbly Universe

Asit Banerjee (Jadavpur University)


Monopoles in
Brans-Dicke Theories

Vladimir Burdyuzha (Astro-Space Center of Lebedev Physical Institute)


The New Scenario of the Initial
Evolution of the Universe

Jorge Luis Cervantes-Cota (Instituto Nacional de Investigaciones Nucleares)


Induced Gravity and the
No-Hair Conjecture

Greg Comer (Saint Louis University)


Long-Wavelength Iteration Scheme
and Scalar-Tensor Gravity

Luciane Rangel de Freitas (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro)


Reminiscences of the Primordial
Anisotropic Era of Our Universe

Jorge Horvath (Universidade de Sao Paulo)


Evolution of a
PBH Population

Jai-chan Hwang (Kyungpook National University)


Structure Formation
in a String Cosmology

Osamu Iguchi (Tokyo Institute of Technology)


Onset of Inflation in
Inhomogeneous Cosmology

Akihiro Ishibashi (Tokyo Institute of Technology)


Perturbative Analysis
of a Bubble Wall

Mansouri Reza (ICTP)


A Generalisation of FRW Model
Having Dynamical Space Dimension

Luciano Rezzolla (SISSA, Trieste)


Baryon Number Segregation at the end of
the Cosmological Quark-Hadron Transition

Nobuyuki Sakai (Waseda University)


Primordial Bubbles and
CMB Anisotropies

Anupam Singh (UC Santa Barbara)


Dissipation by Particle Production
in an Expanding FRW Universe

Winfried Zimdahl (University of Konstanz)


Kinetic Theory, Particle Production,
and the Inflationary Universe