Cosmology in Northern California
Cosmology in Northern California
2010
Program
9:00 - 9:30
9:30 - 9:35
9:35 - 10:45
10:45 - 11:00
11:00 - 12:00
12:00 - 1:30
1:30 - 2:40
2:40 - 3:00
3:00 - 4:20
4:20 - 4:40
4:40 - 6:00
6:00
6:45-8:00
Arrival, Coffee, Light Refreshments
Welcome and Organizational Remarks
Session I : Jessica Kirkpatrick (chair)
Kevin Schlaufman
Halo Substructure and Milky Way Formation
Matt George
Where is the center of the dark matter in galaxy groups?
Begoña Ascaso
Detecting galaxy clusters in DLS and CARS: a Bayesian Cluster Finder.
Tobias Baldauf
The Galaxy Bispectrum as a Probe of Primordial non-Gaussianity
Kyle Barbary
High-Redshift Type Ia Supernova Rates in Galaxy Clusters and the Field
Jonathan Blazek
Intrinsic alignment of galaxies
Jim Bosch
Shear Measurement with Multi-Epoch Galaxy Modeling
Coffee Break
Session II : Danielle Speller (chair)
Ami Choi
The Mass-Luminosity Relation for Galaxies in the Deep Lens Survey
Sudeep Das
A Sharper Image of the Cosmic Microwave Background
Sanghamitra Deb
Quantifying substructure in Galaxy Clusters with X-ray and Gravitational Lensing Measurements.
Stefan Hilbert
Simulating Gravitational Lensing
Jeff Scargle
Dale Kocevski
Obscured Starburst Activity in High Redshift Galaxy Clusters and Groups
Lunch - LBNL Cafeteria
Session III: Jonathan Blazek (chair)
Alexie Leauthaud
New constraints on the galaxy-dark matter connection using galaxy-galaxy lensing
Matthew Merrill
High Resolution VLA Observations of a Candidate Class 0 Binary Protostar
Marius Millea
Mark Mozena
Characterizing Clumpy Structure of z~2 Galaxies in HST Observations and Hydrodynamical Simulations
Reiko Nakajima
Precision Galaxy Cluster Mass Estimates with Weak Gravitational Lensing
Reuben Walter Ogburn
CMB polarization with BICEP2 and the Keck Array
Aaron Parsons
The Precision Array for Probing the Epoch of Reionization
Coffee Break
Session IV: Kyle Barbary (chair)
Jonathan Pober
Observing the Low-Frequency Radio Sky with PAPER
David Rubin
The Union2 Supernova Compilation
Shun Saito
Fruitful information beyond Baryon Acoustic Oscillations through galaxy surveys
Michael Schneider
Intrinsic galaxy alignments as a contaminant for cosmic shear
Hee-Jong Seo
Re-capturing cosmic information
Erik Shirokoff
Secondary CMB anisotropies observed with the South Pole Telescope
Jack Singal
Recent Measurement and Implications of the Cosmic Radio Background
Danielle Speller
Dark matter direct detection and the effects of phase velocity distribution
Coffee Break
Session V: Matt George (chair)
Bryan Steinbach
Ki Won Yoon
Norihiro Tanahashi
Probing the size of extra dimension with gravitational wave astronomy
Nathaniel Butler
Time Series Classification of Quasars
Todd Doughty
The Cryogenic Dark Matter Search experiment status and future
Elizabeth George
SPTpol: A CMB polarization experiment
Eli Rykoff
Estimating Galaxy Cluster Mass with Large Photometry Surveys
Brenda Frye
IGM Overdensities towards Galaxies
End of Meeting
Dinner at Thai House in Berkeley