Large-scale Parity Violation Workshop

Monday December 4, 2023
09:00~09:20 Registration
09:20~09:30 Welcome remarks
Ue-Li Pen (ASIAA)
Theory (Chair: Teppei Okumura)
09:30~10:05 Parity, Gravity and the Quantum
Stephon Alexander (Brown University)
10:05~10:40 Inflationary Signals of Parity Violation in Gravity
Cyril Creque-Sarbinowski (Center for Computational Astrophysics - Flatiron Institute)
10:40~11:10 Coffee Break
11:10~11:45 Bootstrapping Cosmological Correlations
Daniel Baumann (National Taiwan University)
11:45~12:20 Primordial Black Holes as a Probe of the Early Universe
Misao Sasaki (Kavli IPMU, University of Tokyo)
12:20~13:40 Lunch Break
Theory (Chair: Sugumi Kanno)
13:40~14:15 K-essence induced by derivative couplings of the inflation
Shun-Pei Miao (National Cheng Kung University)
14:15~14:35 Non-perturbative Wavefunction of the Universe in Inflation with (Resonant) Features
Vicharit Yingcharoenrat (Kavli IPMU, the University of Tokyo)
14:35~14:55 The Stochastic Ricci Flow and the gravitational breakdown of the parity symmetry
Antonino Marciano (Fudan University)
14:55~15:25 Coffee Break
15:25~16:00 Parity violating graviton non-gaussianity in alpha-vacuum
MARIA MYLOVA (IPMU KAVLI Institute, Tokyo University)
16:00~16:20 First constraints on Non-minimally coupled Natural and Coleman-Weinberg inflation in the light of massive neutrino self-interactions and Planck+BICEP/Keck
Shouvik Roy Choudhury (ASIAA)
16:20~17:00 Discussion (Coordinators: Stephon Alexander and Daniel Baumann)
17:00~18:30 Workshop Reception at 1F Auditorium
Tuesday December 5, 2023
Theory/CMB/GW (Chair: Shun-Pei Miao)
09:30~10:05 Axion field tomography with the birefringence angles from the epochs of recombination and reionization
Patricia Diego-Palazuelos (Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics)
10:05~10:40 Parity of primordial scalar fluctuations
Yi Wang (HKUST)
10:40~11:10 Coffee Break
11:10~11:45 Observable signatures of parity violation in the CMB sky
Tarun Souradeep (Raman Research Institute)
11:45~12:05 Cosmic birefringence by the rotating ALP
Fumihiro Naokawa (the University of Tokyo)
12:05~12:25 Is Cosmic Birefringence model-dependent?
Lu Yin (APCTP)
12:30~13:50 Lunch Break
Theory/CMB/GW (Chair: Oliver Philcox)
13:50~14:25 Circularly polarized gravitational waves in Chern-Simons gravity originated from an axion domain wall
Sugumi Kanno (Kyushu University)
14:25~14:45 Measuring Parity Asymmetry of Gravitational Wave Backgrounds with Interferometer Networks
Naoki Seto (Kyoto University)
14:45~15:05 Extracting gravitational waves from projected tidal tensor field: Applications to galaxy intrinsic alignments
Teppei Okumura (ASIAA)
15:05~15:35 Coffee Break
15:35~15:55 Probing Parity Violation in the Stochastic Gravitational Wave Background with Astrometry
Sam Wong (City University of Hong Kong)
15:55~16:15 Parity symmetries in the power spectra of tensor fields in the large-scale structure
Takahiko Matsubara (KEK High Energy Accelerator Research Organization)
16:15~16:55 Discussion (Coordinators: Tarun Souradeep and Yi Wang)
Wednesday December 6, 2023
LSS (Chair: Takahiko Matsubara)
09:30~10:05 Dissecting the cosmic web with caustics
Job Feldbrugge (University of Edinburgh)
10:05~10:40 Reoriented Memory of Galaxy Spins for the Early Universe
Jounghun Lee (Seoul National University)
10:40~11:10 Coffee Break
LSS (Chair: Jingjing Shi)
11:10~11:45 Systematic generation of helical parity violating initial conditions: vector and tensor types
Ue-Li Pen (ASIAA)
11:45~12:20 Spin parity distribution of spiral galaxies in the Spin Catalogs of PanSTARRS and HSC
Masanori Iye (National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, Prof. Emeritus)
12:20~12:40 Primordial Imprint of Parity Violation on Galaxy Angular Momentum
Junsup Shim (ASIAA)
12:40~12:45 Group Photo
12:40~13:55 Lunch Break
LSS (Chair: Ue-Li Pen)
13:55~14:15 Radial Dependence of Halo Spin Alignment with the Cosmic Web
Jun-Sung Moon (Seoul National University)
14:20~15:20 1-hour Institute Colloquium by Donghui Jeong
15:20~15:50 Coffee Break
15:50~16:30 Discussion (Coordinators: Jounghun Lee and Ue-Li Pen)
16:50 Take shuttle bus to Maokong
18:00 Workshop Banquet at Maokong (ε››ε“₯ηš„εΊ— Four Brothers Restaurant)
Thursday December 7, 2023
LSS (Chair: Job Feldbrugge)
09:30~10:05 Parity measurement from clustering fossils
Donghui Jeong (Penn State University / KIAS)
10:05~10:40 Colliding Ghosts: Parity Violation from Inflation to Large-Scale Structure
Giovanni Cabass (Ruder Boskovic Institute)
10:40~11:10 Coffee Break
11:10~11:45 Reflecting the CMB in a Mirror
Oliver Philcox (Simons Foundation / Columbia University)
11:45~12:05 Lattice simulations of axion inflation
Angelo Caravano (LMU Munich)
12:05~13:20 Lunch Break
LSS (Chair: Jounghun Lee)
13:20~13:55 Parity-odd Mode of Galaxies' Four-Point Correlation Functions with Extended Views
Jiamin Hou (University of Florida / Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics)
13:55~14:15 Compressed estimators for cosmological parity violation
Drew Jamieson (Max-Planck Institute for Astrophysics)
14:15~14:45 Coffee Break
14:45~15:05 Galaxy intrinsic alignment and large scale parity violation
Jingjing Shi (Kavli IPMU)
15:05~15:25 Optimal estimator of the binned window-free cosmic shear power spectrum
Takanori Taniguchi (Kavli IPMU/University of Tokyo)
15:25~16:05 Discussion (Coordinators: Giovanni Cabass and Jiamin Hou)
16:05~16:20 Closing