Organizing Chairs: Richard Easther (Yale University) & Ruth Gregory (University of Durham)

December 12, 2005 (Crystal ballroom A, West Tower)

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Session 1	Chair: Richard Easther (Yale University)	Crystal ballroom A, West Tower
2:00 PM - 2:20 PM	An effective theory of initial conditions in inflation [PDF format], [Abstract]	Hael Collins (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
2:20 PM - 2:40 PM	Heavy cosmic strings [Abstract]	Arttu Rajantie (Imperial College London)
2:40 PM - 3:00 PM	String Pair Production in a Time-Dependent Gravitational Field [Abstract]	Daniel H. Wesley (Princeton University)
3:00 PM - 3:45 PM	Coffee Break/ Poster viewing
Session 2	Chair: Ruth Gregory (University of Durham)	Crystal ballroom A, West Tower
3:45 PM - 4:05 PM	Constraining Inverse Curvature Gravity with Supernovae [PDF format], [Abstract]	Jose Santiago (Fermilab)
4:05 PM - 4:25 PM	Resonant modes in brane-world inflation [PDF format], [Abstract]	Andrew Mennim (University of Portsmouth)
4:25 PM - 4:45 PM	Perturbations in a Regular Bouncing Universe [PDF format], [Abstract]	Ghazal Geshnizjani (UW-Madison)
4:45 PM - 5:05 PM	Enhanced gravitational scattering from large extra dimensions [Abstract]	Federico Piazza (ICG Portsmouth UK)

Poster Presentation Information

1.		Evolution of Dark Matter, Dark Energy, and Dark Radiation in Brane-World Cosmology [Abstract]	Grant J. Mathews (University of Notre Dame)
2.		Short and Long Distance Effects in Cosmology and Dark Energy [Abstract]	Emil Mottola (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
3.		Friedman's equations and the apparent horizon (from wood to marble). [Abstract]	Antonio J. Segui (Universidad de Zaragoza)
4.		Direct detection of the inflationary gravitational-wave background [Abstract]	Tristan L. Smith (Caltech)

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