Sunday, Aug 6

18:30     20:00             Welcome reception, Radisson hotel

Monday, Aug 7

Chairman: TBA;        Venue: Nazarbayev University, Block C-3, room 1022/1009

9:00      9:50              George Smoot                   Observational Constraints on the Primordial Curvature Power Spectrum

9:50      10:40            Alexei Starobinsky             Reconstruction of inflationary models in f(R) gravity

10:40    11:00            break 

11:00    11:50            Grossan/Linder/Smoot       ECL Overview

11:50    12:15            Michael Good                     Slicing the Vacuum: A New Solution to the Dynamical Casimir Effect

12:15    1:15              lunch break

1:15     2:05              Pawan Kumar                     Relativistic jets in tidal disruption events

2:05     2:55              Bruce Grossan                   Understanding Gamma-Ray Bursts: A Fast, Early, and Multi-Colored Approach

2:55     3:15              break                                  

3:15     4:05              Shuhrat Ehgamberdiev      High energy astrophysical objects study at Maidanak Observatory in Uzbekistan

4:05     4:30              Yerlan Aimuratov                The Fireshell Model Nomenclature: Subclass of Short Gamma-Gay Bursts

4:30     4:55              Ernazar Abdikamalov         The Explosion Mechanism of Core-Collapse Supernovae

4:55     5:20              Alexander Borisov              The study of primary gamma-rays with energies more than 1 TeV using the ‘HADRON-55’ complex 

                                                                            setup and the array of scintillation detectors

5:20     5:45              Roundtable                         Astrophysics in Central Asia

Tuesday, Aug 8

Chairman: TBA ;     Venue: Nazarbayev University, Block C-3, room 1009

9:00     9:50             Jonas Zmuidzinas              Kinetic Inductance Detectors: Progress and Prospects

9:50     10:40           Osamu Tajima                    GroundBIRD – KIDs meet the cosmic inflation

10:40   11:00           break

11:00   11:50           discussion                           Advanced detectors

11:50   12:15           Abilkhan Umbetov              Acousto-optical correlator for recognition of cosmic signals

12:15    1:15           lunch break

1:15     2:05            Yong-Seon Song                 Precision Cosmology in the Next Decade

2:05     2:55            Sergey Sushkov                  Cosmological scenarios in Horndeski theory

2:55     3:15            break

3:15     4:05            Eric Linder                           Precision Gravity in the Next Decade

4:05     4:30            Mikhail Denissenya             Probing Modified Gravity Impact on Large Scale Structure with Next Generation Surveys

4:30     4:55            Włodzimierz Godłowski       Investigation of alignment of galaxies in clusters – the importance, methods and results of research

4:55     5:20            Leonid Chechin                   Basing the Universe rotation

5:20     5:45            Roundtable                          Astrophysics in Central Asia

5:45      6:45           Poster session

19:00  21:00           Banquet (downtown )

Wednesday, Aug 9

9:00    12:00           Expo Session

12:00   1:00            lunch break 

                               Free time, e.g. visit Expo

Thursday, Aug 10

8:30                       transfer to Burabay 

Moderator: TBA;   Venue: Rixos Borovoe hotel, conference room

1:00   2:15             Discussion                       Multimessenger astrophysics

2:15   4:15             Focus walk

4:15   5:30             Discussion                       Dealing with data

19:00 21:00           Dinner

Friday, Aug 11

Moderator: TBA;    Venue: Rixos Borovoe hotel, conference room

8:00   9:00            breakfast

9:00   9:50           Discussion                       High Energy Early Universe

9:50  10:40          Discussion                       High Energy Explosions

10:40 11:00         break

11:00 12:15         Focus walk

12:15 1:15           lunch

1:15   2:15           Discussion                       New instrumentation

2:15  3:15            Discussion                       Future ideas

3:15  4:00            Focus walk                 

4:00                    transfer to Astana

Saturday, Aug 12

Moderator: TBA;   Venue: Nazarbayev University, Block C-3, room 1009

9:00  12:15            Physics Department session – quantum optics, quantum chaos, etc.  Steven Anlage, Tim Newell

                          Excursion (e.g. traditional Kazakh yurt/downtown/Alzhir gulag)

 Please note: Invited talks are 40 minutes (+10 minutes for questions);                                              

                       Contributed talks are 20 (+5).