Program
 
Program [PDF]

 
October 4, 2018 - Thursday
8:00 AM - 9:00 AMBreakfast
9:00 AM - 9:20 AMStephen Feeney, Flatiron Institute
The Hubble Constant tension: a status update [PDF, 2.65 MB]
 Local distance ladder
9:20 AM - 9:50 AMAdam Riess, JHU/STScI
The Local Determination of H-naught, Hints of New Physics? [PDF, 37.99 MB]
9:50 AM - 10:10 AMStefano Casertano, Space Telescope Science Institute
Gaia DR2 and beyond: contributions to the local distance scale [PDF, 9.25 MB]
10:10 AM - 10:25 AMCoffee break
10:25 AM - 10:45 AMBarry F Madore, Carnegie Observatories
Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Stellar Distance Indicators* (*But were Afraid to Ask) [PDF, 9.42 MB]
10:45 AM - 11:05 AMWendy Freedman, Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics
A Future Independent TRGB Calibration of SNe Ia [PDF, 26.11 MB]
11:05 AM - 11:25 AMChris Burns, Carnegie Observatories
The Carnegie Supernova Project II: Pushing the NIR Hubble Diagram out to z ~ 0.1 [KEY, 12.66 MB]
11:25 AM - 12:05 PMDiscussion
12:30 PM - 2:00 PMLunch + Foosball
 CMB
2:00 PM - 2:25 PMLloyd E Knox, UC Davis
Overview [KEY, 7.32 MB]
2:25 PM - 2:45 PMSilvia Galli, IAP
Curiosities in Planck
2:45 PM - 3:05 PMEric Hivon, Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris
The robustness of beams as a key ingredient of the Planck analysis [PDF, 3.48 MB]
3:05 PM - 3:25 PMDiscussion
Moderator: Tom Crawford
3:25 PM - 3:45 PMCoffee Break
3:45 PM - 4:10 PMJason W Henning, Argonne
SPT Constraints on H0 from Intermediate and Small-Scale CMB Measurements [PDF, 7.77 MB]
4:10 PM - 4:25 PMKimmy Wu, Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics
Next Steps on H0 from South Pole CMB experiments
4:25 PM - 5:00 PMEduardo Rozo, University of Arizona
DES H0, Is there really a tension? [PDF, 4.05 MB]
5:00 PM - 5:20 PMDiscussion
Moderator: Brad Benson
6:30 PMDinner
Nella

 
October 5, 2018 - Friday
8:00 AM - 9:00 AMBreakfast
 Other measurements
9:00 AM - 9:15 AMDaniel Scolnic, Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics
Next results with Type Ia Supernovae [PDF, 3.16 MB]
9:15 AM - 9:35 AMSimon Birrer, UCLA
Strong lensing: An update from the H0LiCOW collaboration [KEY, 22.9 MB]
9:35 AM - 9:55 AMDaniel Holz, Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics
Using Standard Sirens to Measure The Hubble Constant [PDF, 5.19 MB]
9:55 AM - 10:10 AMKirit Karkare, KICP
Expansion History Measurements with Line Intensity Mapping
10:20 AM - 10:40 AMDiscussion
10:40 AM - 11:00 AMCoffee Break
 Understanding the measurements/Quantifying the tension
11:00 AM - 11:20 AMMarco Raveri, KICP
Concordance and Discordance in Cosmology
11:20 AM - 11:40 AMDragan Huterer, University of Michigan
Sample variance in local measurements of H0
 Theory solutions to the problem
11:50 AM - 12:10 PMMeng-Xiang Lin, KICP
Modified Gravity On Reducing the H_0 tension [PPTX, 7.56 MB]
12:10 PM - 12:30 PMLloyd E Knox, UC Davis
Sounds Discordant: Classical Distance Ladder & LCDM Determinations of the Cosmological Sound Horizon [KEY, 5.12 MB]
12:30 PM - 2:00 PMLunch with Final discussion
Dan Holz/Josh Frieman
  • Where do we go from here?
  • Is it real? What other probes are there?
3:00 PMEnd