October 4, 2018 - Thursday
| Breakfast | |
| Stephen Feeney, Flatiron Institute The Hubble Constant tension: a status update [PDF, 2.65 MB] | |
| Local distance ladder | |
| Adam Riess, JHU/STScI The Local Determination of H-naught, Hints of New Physics? [PDF, 37.99 MB] | |
| Stefano Casertano, Space Telescope Science Institute Gaia DR2 and beyond: contributions to the local distance scale [PDF, 9.25 MB] | |
| Coffee break | |
| Barry F Madore, Carnegie Observatories Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Stellar Distance Indicators* (*But were Afraid to Ask) [PDF, 9.42 MB] | |
| Wendy Freedman, Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics A Future Independent TRGB Calibration of SNe Ia [PDF, 26.11 MB] | |
| Chris Burns, Carnegie Observatories The Carnegie Supernova Project II: Pushing the NIR Hubble Diagram out to z ~ 0.1 [KEY, 12.66 MB] | |
| Discussion | |
| Lunch + Foosball | |
| CMB | |
| Lloyd E Knox, UC Davis Overview [KEY, 7.32 MB] | |
| Silvia Galli, IAP Curiosities in Planck | |
| Eric Hivon, Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris The robustness of beams as a key ingredient of the Planck analysis [PDF, 3.48 MB] | |
| Discussion Moderator: Tom Crawford | |
| Coffee Break | |
| Jason W Henning, Argonne SPT Constraints on H0 from Intermediate and Small-Scale CMB Measurements [PDF, 7.77 MB] | |
| Kimmy Wu, Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics Next Steps on H0 from South Pole CMB experiments | |
| Eduardo Rozo, University of Arizona DES H0, Is there really a tension? [PDF, 4.05 MB] | |
| Discussion Moderator: Brad Benson | |
| Dinner Nella |
October 5, 2018 - Friday
| Breakfast | |
| Other measurements | |
| Daniel Scolnic, Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics Next results with Type Ia Supernovae [PDF, 3.16 MB] | |
| Simon Birrer, UCLA Strong lensing: An update from the H0LiCOW collaboration [KEY, 22.9 MB] | |
| Daniel Holz, Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics Using Standard Sirens to Measure The Hubble Constant [PDF, 5.19 MB] | |
| Kirit Karkare, KICP Expansion History Measurements with Line Intensity Mapping | |
| Discussion | |
| Coffee Break | |
| Understanding the measurements/Quantifying the tension | |
| Marco Raveri, KICP Concordance and Discordance in Cosmology | |
| Dragan Huterer, University of Michigan Sample variance in local measurements of H0 | |
| Theory solutions to the problem | |
| Meng-Xiang Lin, KICP Modified Gravity On Reducing the H_0 tension [PPTX, 7.56 MB] | |
| Lloyd E Knox, UC Davis Sounds Discordant: Classical Distance Ladder & LCDM Determinations of the Cosmological Sound Horizon [KEY, 5.12 MB] | |
| Lunch with Final discussion Dan Holz/Josh Frieman
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