Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, we have postponed the original program that was scheduled for August 24-September 4, 2020. The new dates of the meeting that will be held at ICTS will be announced in due course. Meanwhile, we have planned an online precursor to the meeting which will be held during August 31-September 3, 2020.Our original program had consisted of a School and a Workshop.The aims of the School were to expose graduate students and post-doctoral fellows to essential ideas related to the physics of the early universe. The School was to begin with lectures on basic cosmological perturbation theory and alternative paradigms for the generation of the primordial perturbations. These were to be followed by lectures on the relation between models of the early universe and particle physics as well as comparison of these models with the cosmological data. We had also planned to cover emerging topics such as the non-trivial effects of gauge fields during inflation and reheatin...
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