KEK Cosmophysics Group Inaugural Conference
Accelerators in the Universe
- Interplay between High Energy Physics and Cosmophysics -
12 (Wed) - 14 (Fri) March 2008
3rd building 1F seminar hall, KEK, Tsukuba, Japan

12 (Wed) March
9:30 - 10:45 Registration
10:45 - 11:00 Opening address
Hideo Kodama (Conference Chair)
11:00 - 12:30 Session 1 [Chair: Akihiro Ishibashi (KEK)]
Edward W. Kolb (KICP, Chicago U) [50+10]
Taking sides on the dark energy issue PROC
Shinji Tsujikawa (GNCT) [25+5]
Dark energy and modified gravity PROC
12:30 - 13:30 Lunch
13:30 - 15:30 Session 2 [Chair: Tetsuya Shiromizu (TITech)]
Jun'ichi Yokoyama (RESCEU, U Tokyo) [50+10]
Probing the early Universe with multichannel observations PROC
Shun Saito (U Tokyo) [25+5]
Impact of massive neutrinos on nonlinear matter power spectrum PROC
Yuko Urakawa (Waseda U) [25+5]
A solution to the IR divergence problem of interacting inflaton field PROC
15:30 - 16:00 Break
16:00 - 18:00 Session 3 [Chair: Kei-ichi Maeda (Waseda U)]
Takahiro Tanaka (Kyoto U) [50+10]
Gravity in Braneworld PROC
Fuminobu Takahashi (IPMU) [25+5]
Gravitino and inflation PROC
Kazunori Nakayama (ICRR) [25+5]
Inflationary cosmology of axion models in supergravity PROC
18:30 - 21:00 Reception party (Lounge 2)

13 (Thu) March
9:00 - 10:00 Session 4 [Chair: Masashi Hazumi (KEK)]
Marc Kamionkowski (Caltech) [50+10]
The future of the CMB
10:00 - 10:30 Break
10:30 - 12:30 Session 5 [Chair: Naoshi Sugiyama (Nagoya U)]
Adrian Lee (UC Berkeley) [50+10]
Probing the early universe with measurements of CMB polarization
Masashi Hazumi (KEK) [25+5]
Jumping into CMB polarization measurements – a new group at KEK –
Makoto Hattori (Tohoku U) [25+5]
Application of michelson type bolometric interferometer to CMB B-mode polarization observations PROC
12:30 - 13:30 Lunch
13:30 - 15:30 Session 6 [Chair: Misao Sasaki (YITP)]
Masaki Ando (U Tokyo) [50+10]
Gravitational wave experiments PROC
Teruaki Suyama (ICRR) [25+5]
Non-Gaussianities, Spectral Index, and Tensor Mode in Models with Mixed Inflaton and Curvaton PROC
Shuntaro Mizuno (RESCEU, U Tokyo) [25+5]
Primordial non-Gaussianities in new ekpyrotic cosmology PROC
15:30 - 16:00 Break
16:00 - 18:00 Session 7 [Chair: Fumio Takahara (Osaka U)]
Roger D. Blandford (SLAC) [50+10]
New Prospects in High Energy Astrophysics
Yuichiro Sekiguchi (TITech) [25+5]
Collapse of rapidly rotating massive stellar core to a black hole in full GR PROC
Yousuke Takamori (Osaka City U) [25+5]
Numerical Study of Stationary Black Hole Magnetospheres – Blandford-Znajek mechanism by fast rotating black holes – PROC
18:30 - 21:00 Banquet (Lounge 2)

14 (Fri) March
9:00 - 10:00 Session 8 [Chair: Masaki Mori (ICRR)]
Masahiro Teshima (MPI) [50+10]
High Energy Gamma Rays and Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays
10:00 - 10:30 Break
10:30 - 12:30 Session 9 [Chair: Kunihito Ioka (KEK)]
Peter Mészáros (IGC, Penn State) [50+10]
Gamma-Ray Burst and Particle Astrophysics: Future Prospects PROC
Katsuaki Asano (TITech) [25+5]
Gamma-ray Bursts and Particle Acceleartion PROC
Kohta Murase (YITP, Kyoto U) [25+5]
High-Energy Neutrinos and Gamma-Ray Bursts PROC
12:30 - 13:30 Lunch
13:30 - 14:30 Session 10 [Chair: Shigehiro Nagataki (YITP)]
Susumu Inoue (NAOJ/Kyoto U) [25+5]
Astrophysical Accelerators of Ultrahigh Energy Cosmic Rays PROC
Kenji Toma (Kyoto U/NAOJ) [25+5]
Gamma-Ray Burst Polarization PROC
14:30 - 15:00 Break
15:00 - 17:00 Session 11 [Chair: Susumu Inoue (NAOJ/Kyoto U)]
Jun Kataoka (TITech) [50+10]
High Energy Observations of AGN Jets and Their Future Prospects PROC
Yoshitaka Itow (STEL, Nagoya U) [25+5]
The LHCf experiment for verification of UHECR interaction models PROC
Hajime Takami (U Tokyo) [25+5]
Towards unravelling the structural distribution of ultra-high-energy cosmic ray sources PROC
17:00 - 17:10 Closing remarks