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Simon DeDeo, KICP Fellow at the KICP

Dragan Huterer, NSF Postdoctoral Fellow at the KICP

Hiranya Peiris, Hubble Fellow at the KICP



 
WORKSHOP PROGRAM

Sloan Galaxies The workshop "Life Beyond the Gaussian" will take place in the Conference Room (LASR 152) at the Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics, from June 6th to the 8th, 2007.

All talks except for Friday Lunch Seminar are 30 mins + 15 mins discussions.

  • June 6, Wednesday: Primordial Non-Gaussianity: Theory
  • June 7, Thursday: non-Gaussianity from the non-linear evolution of structure: theory
  • June 8, Friday: observations of non-Gaussianity in the cosmic microwave background and large-scale structure

 
 

JUNE 6, WEDNESDAY

 

PRIMORDIAL NON-GAUSSIANITY: THEORY
Conference Room (LASR 152)

30 mins talk + 15 mins discussions

09:15 - 10:00

Xingang Chen

Observational signatures and non-Gaussianity of general single field inflation

10:00 - 10:45

Eugene Lim

Numerical methods in primordial non-gaussian signature computations (Movie)

10:45 - 11:30

Christian Byrnes

Non-Gaussianity from multiple field inflation

11:30 - 12:15

Neil Barnaby

Large non-Gaussianity from nonlocal inflation

12:15 - 13:00

Lunch break

13:00 - 13:45

Daniel Baumann

String inflation and the Planck Distance

13:45 - 14:30

Sarah Shandera

Non-Gaussianity from brane inflation

14:30 - 15:15

James Fergusson

Projecting the primordial bispectrum forward in time

15:15 - 16:30

Roger Blandford's Colloquium



 
 

JUNE 7, THURSDAY

 

NON-GAUSSIANITY FROM THE NON-LINEAR EVOLUTION OF STRUCTURE: THEORY
Conference Room (LASR 152)

30 mins talk + 15 mins discussions

09:00 - 09:45

Roman Scoccimarro

Non-Gaussianity in large-scale structure: theory

09:45 - 10:30

Martin Crocce

The Bispectrum in Renormalized Perturbation Theory

10:30 - 11:15

Olivier Dore

Towards a Universal Halo Mass Function for fNL Cosmologies

11:15 - 13:15

Lunch Break & Informal Discussions

13:15 - 14:00

Dragan Huterer

Mysteries of the large-angle microwave sky

14:00 - 14:45

Marilena LoVerde

DBI in the low redshift sky

14:45 - 15:30

Asantha Cooray

Possible Searches for non-Gaussianity at high redshifts

19:30

Dinner

Xel-Ha restaurant (710 N. Wells St; individual transportation)



 
 

JUNE 8, FRIDAY

 

OBSERVATIONS OF NON-GAUSSIANITY IN THE COSMIC MICROWAVE BACKGROUND AND LARGE-SCALE STRUCTURE
Conference Room (LASR 152)

All talks except for Friday Lunch Seminar are 30 mins + 15 mins discussions

09:00 - 09:45

Leonardo Senatore

Limits on non-Gaussianities from WMAP data

09:45 - 10:30

Emiliano Sefusatti

The galaxy bispectrum: cosmology & primordial non-Gaussianity

11:15 - 12:00

Eiichiro Komatsu

Estimators for extracting non-Gaussianity

12:00 - 13:30
Friday Lunch Seminar

Sabino Matarrese

Cosmological Non-Gaussianity

13:30 - 14:15

Ben Wandelt

Computational methods for future missions

14:15 - 15:00

Kendrick Smith

Detection of Gravitational Lensing in the Cosmic Microwave Background

15:00 - 15:30

Simon DeDeo

Summary of the workshop



 
 

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June 19, 2008