Testing Gravity 2015
15-17 January 2015, SFU Harbour Center, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Wed Jan 14 - The School
08:30 Registration Desk Opens
09:00-10:30 Jeremy Heyl
Introduction to GR and gravitational interactions on different scales
11:00-12:30 Mark Trodden
Lunch Break
12:30-13:30 (various locations)
13:30-15:00 Michael Landry
15:30-17:00 Gary Hinshaw
Registration Open Until 21:00
Thu Jan 15 - Workshop Day 1
08:30 Registration Desk Opens
09:00 Workshop starts
Introduction from organizers
09:05-09:15 Welcome
Joy Johnson, SFU VP Research
09:15-09:35 Dimitrios Psaltis
Overview of gravity tests
09:35-10:00 Mark Trodden
10:00-10:30 Eric Adelberger
11:00-11:30 Misao Sasaki
Creation of the universe in bigravity
11:30-12:00 Mark Kasevich
12:00-12:30 Nico Yunes
Gravitational wave probes of extreme gravity
12:30-12:50 Michael Landry
Lunch Break
13:00-14:00 (various locations)
14:00-14:25 Kazuya Koyama
Non-linear structure formation in modified gravity models
14:25-14:50 Rachel Bean
Testing gravity with large scale surveys
14:50-15:15 David Langlois
A unifying description of dark energy
15:15-15:35 Alessandra Silvestri
16:00-18:00 Contributed Talks
Poster Session and Reception
18:00-20:00 (snacks & cash bar)
Fri Jan 16 - Workshop Day 2
08:30 Registration Desk Opens
09:00-09:30 Douglas Scott
CMB, Planck results
09:30-09:40 Ali Narimani
MG bounds from Planck
09:40-10:05 Brian Keating
Fundamental physics from BICEP1, BICEP2, POLARBEAR
10:05-10:30 Ue-Li Pen
11:00-11:25 Gunther Cronenberg
Slow neutrons and their role to test gravity
11:25-11:50 David Moore
12:00-12:25 Jay Tasson
Searches for local Lorentz violation
12:25-12:50 Jiro Murata
Lunch Break
13:00-14:00 (various locations)
14:00-14:30 Manuela Campanelli
14:30-14:55 Ingrid Stairs
14:55-15:15 Philippe Brax
15:15-15:35 Ruth Gregory
16:00-16:30 Avery Broderick
16:30-17:00 Bill Unruh
What analogue gravity can say about gravity?
17:00-17:30 Mark Van Raamsdonk
Conference Dinner
19:00 Dockside on Granville Island
Sat Jan 17 - Workshop Day 3
09:00 Registration Desk Opens
09:30-10:00 Martin White
10:00-10:25 Ludo Van Waerbeke
10:25-10:40 Mustapha Ishak and Jason Dossett
11:10-11:40 Lam Hui
11:40-12:00 Gong-Bo Zhao
12:10-12:30 Shinji Tsujikawa
Disformal invariance of cosmological perturbations in a generalized class of Horndeski theories
12:30-12:50 Cedric Deffayet
Lunch Break
13:00-14:00 (various locations)
14:00-14:25 Niayesh Afshordi
Cosmological (non-) constant problem
14:25-14:50 Makoto Fujiwara
ALPHA at CERN, testing gravity of antimatter
15:00-15:30 Lam Hui
Workshop ends
