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Workshops, 2012
2012 US JEM-EUSO Working Group Meeting  Plan for NASA Participation on the Extreme Universe Space Observatory onthe Japanese Experiment Module, the JEM-EUSO mission.Learn more >> Supernova Hub workshop: "Photometric Identification of Supernova"  The workshop will focus on methods for identifying type Ia Supernvae (SNIa) without spectroscopy. The emphasis will be on using these photometric SNIa for Hubble Diagram analyses in PannStarrs, the Dark Energy Survey (DES) and the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST).Learn more >> Non-Gaussianity Hub  The Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics (KICP) at the University of Chicago will host Non-Gaussianity Hub workshop on April 19-21, 2012. We plan to bring together theorists and data analysts in this 3-day workshop on non-Gaussianity to consolidate the recent progress and discuss future efforts. We expect attendance by about 30 worldwide leaders in the field of non-Gaussianity. Come to the workshop with your constraint on f_NL not worrying about systematics or uncertainties in the other cosmological parameters and work on the analysis of simulations: * How would the systematics enter? * What about inflationary input? * Model -> observables?Learn more >> The 4th Neutrino  The 4th Neutrino workshop will take place from Friday May 18th to Saturday May 19th in Chicago, IL. The workshop is being hosted by the Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics (KICP) in the Laboratory for Astrophysics and Space Research (LASR) building at the University's of Chicago main campus in Hyde Park. The main topics of the workshop are: * Neutrino and Cosmic Microwave Background * Neutrino and Big Bang Nucleosynthesis * Current bounds on N_nu and Sum m_nu from cosmology * Sterile Neutrinos in the Early Universe * Sterile Neutrinos in Astrophysics * Terrestrial "hints" for sterile neutrinos: short-baseline anomalies * Reactor Neutrino Experiments * Theoretical understanding of neutrinos from nuclear reactors * Theoretical Models of neutrino massLearn more >> The Dark Energy Spectrometer  The Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics (KICP) at the University of Chicago will host The Dark Energy Spectrometer workshop on May 30-31 to discuss DESpec, a conceptual next generation dark energy project to enable massive spectroscopic surveys in the southern hemisphere. It would naturally synergize with the Dark Energy Survey (DES), which will start taking data later this year, and with LSST in the longer term. The goal of this meeting is to review past and present work on DESpec and to make plans for how to proceed. We will briefly review the current state of the instrument design and then identify the next steps in the project, including describing the R&D necessary to proceed with theory, survey strategy, and instrument definition. The goal of the workshop will be to begin to assemble the DESpec team, define the project's mission statement, and plan how to proceed in the coming year.Learn more >> 9th International Conference "Identification of Dark Matter"  The Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics (KICP) at the University of Chicago will host the 9th International Conference "Identification of Dark Matter, 2012" in Chicago, USA on July 23-27, 2012. The conference will take place in downtown Chicago at the Holiday Inn Mart Plaza. The main topics of the conference are * Dark matter candidates * Dark matter direct searches * Dark matter indirect searches * Connections with accelerator searches * Halo models and structure formation * Weak lensing * Neutrino physics * Cosmology and dark energy The conference will include both invited and contributed talks as well as a few more specialized sessions.Learn more >> 22nd Midwest Relativity Meeting  The 22nd Midwest Relativity Meeting will be held Friday and Saturday, September 28 and 29, 2012 at the University of Chicago. The format of the meeting will follow previous regional meetings, where all participants may present a talk of approximately 10-15 minutes, depending on the total number of talks. We intend for the meeting to cover a broad range of topics in gravitation physics, including classical and quantum gravity, numerical relativity, relativistic astrophysics, cosmology, gravitational waves, and experimental gravity. As this is a regional meeting, many of the participants will be from the greater United States Midwest and Canada, but researchers and students from other geographic areas are also welcome. Students are strongly encouraged to give presentations. The Blue Apple Award, sponsored by the APS Topical Group in Gravitation, will be awarded for the best student presentation. We gratefully acknowledge the generous support provided by the Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics (KICP) at the University of Chicago.Learn more >> |
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