Program


Sunday September 11, 2016

  • 8:30 - 12:00    Open schedule
  • 12:30 - 14:00  Lunch
  • 14:00 - 18:15  Astrophysics mini-workshop, Organizer: Shigehiro Nagataki
  • 18:30 - 20:00  Dinner

Monday September 12, 2016

  • 8:30 - 12:00    Open schedule
  • 12:40 - 14:00  Lunch
  • 15:10 - 15:40  Neil Davies and Hinano Murphy, Welcome remarks
  • 15:45 - 16:00  Coffee break
  • 16:00 - 16:30  Open schedule
  • 16:35 - 17:40  Reception at the Director's House
  • 18:30 - 20:00  Dinner

Tuesday September 13, 2016

Wednesday September 14, 2016

Thursday September 15, 2016

Friday September 16, 2016

Saturday September 17, 2016

  • Working groups


Registration

The registration fee for the five-day symposium will be $490 for adults and $150 for children, which includes three meals a day prepared by local chefs in Polynesian and European style. We would appreciate receiving your registration before May 15, 2016.

Passports

For each person attending we will need a copy of your passports, which you may scan and send to us via email attachment. This is required in order to comply with the regulations regarding visitors at the Gump Research Station in French Polynesia.

Organizing Committee

Alexander Kusenko, chair (UCLA/Kavli IPMU), Graciela Gelmini (UCLA), Cedric Deffayet (IAP and IHÉS), Francis Halzen (Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison), Vladimir Kazakov (Ecole Normale Supérieure), Hitoshi Murayama (UC Berkeley/Kavli IPMU), Shigehiro Nagataki (RIKEN, Japan), Bernard Sadoulet (UC Berkeley), Mikhail Shifman (Univ. of Minnesota).