Name: Workshop on Particle Production and Thermal Effects in Inflation
Start: 2024-02-05T09:45:00+00:00
End: 2024-02-07T16:45:00+00:00
Location: Virtual @ King's College London

Workshop on Particle Production and Thermal Effects in Inflation

from Monday, 5 February 2024 (09:45) to Wednesday, 7 February 2024 (16:45)

Monday, 5 February 2024

09:55 Welcome

09:55 - 10:05
10:05 Theory of Particle Production: Morning Session
Morning Session
10:05 - 12:30
Contributions

10:05 A dynamical inflaton coupled to strongly interacting matter - Wilke Van Der Schee (CERN)

10:55 Axion Inflation in the Strong-Backreaction Regime: Decay of the Anber–Sorbo Solution - Richard von Eckardstein (Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Münster)

11:45 Vector dark matter production during inflation and reheating - Jose A. R. Cembranos (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)
12:30 Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:30 - 14:00
14:00 Theory of Particle Production: Afternoon Session
Afternoon Session
14:00 - 15:40
Contributions

14:00 Perturbatively including inhomogeneities in axion inflation - Yohei Ema

14:50 Making massive spin-2 particles from gravity during and after inflation - Andrew Long (Rice University)
15:40 Theory of Particle Production: Discussion on Future Directions
Discussion on Future Directions
15:40 - 16:40
Contributions

15:40 Future of Particle Production in Inflation - Lorenzo Sorbo (Massachusetts U., Amherst.)
Tuesday, 6 February 2024
10:00 Simulations: Morning Session
Morning Session
10:00 - 12:30
Contributions

10:00 Oscillon formation during inflationary preheating with general relativity - Josu Aurrekoetxea (University of Oxford)

10:50 Lattice simulations during inflation - Angelo Caravano (IAP, Paris)

11:40 The strong backreaction in axion inflation: a lattice study - Joanes Lizarraga (University of the Basque Country)
12:30 Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:30 - 14:00
14:00 Simulations: Afternoon Session
Afternoon Session
14:00 - 15:40
Contributions

14:00 New inflationary probes of axion dark matter - Jiji Fan

14:50 Lattice Simulations of Gravitational Reheating - Toby Opferkuch
15:40 Simulations: Discussion on Future Directions
Discussion on Future Directions
15:40 - 16:40
Contributions

15:40 Future of Cosmological Simulations - Daniel G. Figueroa (Valencia U., IFIC)
Wednesday, 7 February 2024
10:00 Thermal Effects and Warm Inflation: Morning Session
Morning Session
10:00 - 12:30
Contributions

10:00 Thermalized Axion Inflation - Alessio Notari (Universitat de Barcelona)

10:50 Towards understanding non-Abelian axion inflation - Mikko Sakari Laine (Universitaet Bern (CH))

11:40 Saving Warm Axion Inflation from Light Fermions - Sebastian Zell (UC Louvain)
12:30 Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:30 - 14:00
14:00 Thermal Effects and Warm Inflation: Afternoon Session
Afternoon Session
14:00 - 15:40
Contributions

14:05 Dark Matter production during Warm Inflation via Freeze-In - Gabriele Montefalcone

14:50 Warm inflation with sphaleron heating - Kim Berghaus (California Institute of Technology)
15:40 Thermal Effects and Warm Inflation: Discussion on Future Directions
Discussion on Future Directions
15:40 - 16:30
Contributions

15:40 Future of Warm Inflation - Arjun Berera (Edinburgh U.)
16:30 Closing Words

16:30 - 16:45

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