Workshop on Cosmic Acceleration

August 24, 2012-August 26, 2012, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA  (Giant Eagle Auditorium, BH A51)

Welcome

The Bruce and Astrid McWilliams Center for Cosmology at Carnegie Mellon University will host the Workshop on Cosmic Acceleration will be held from Friday, August 24, 2012 through Sunday, August 26, 2012 in Pittsburgh, PA  (Giant Eagle Auditorium, Baker Hall, A51). The workshop aims to bring together leading researchers and students, working in the areas of dark energy (modifications to grativity) theory and cosmology, and inflationary theory and cosmology. The information that can be found on this website includes travel information, registration information, list of participants, and the schedule of events.

Graduate students are especially encouraged to participate in the workshop.  There is no registration fee for students.

The last date to register is July 20, 2012.

Local Organizing Committee

Nishant Agarwal (CMU), Fred Gilman (CMU), Shirley Ho (CMU), Richard Holman (CMU), Tina Kahniashvili (CMU), Arthur Kosowsky (Pitt), Rachel Mandelbaum (CMU), Ross O'Connell (CMU), Andrew Zentner (Pitt)

Advisory Board

Rachel Bean (Cornell), Justin Khoury (UPenn), Uros Seljak (Berkeley), Sarah Shandera (Penn State), Andrew Tolley (CWRU), Mark Trodden (UPenn)

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