POSTER PRESENTATIONS   June 14, 2010 - Monday

1.

Nishant Agarwal (Cornell University)
Cascading Cosmology

2.

Chaoyun Bao (University of Minnesota School of Physics and Astronomy)
The impact of an Achromatic Half Wave Plate on the Measured Polarization of the CMB

3.

Paramita Barai (University of Nevada, Las Vegas)
Contribution of AGN Outflows to the Metal Enrichment History of the IGM on Cosmological Scales

4.

Allan I Bayntun (McMaster University)
deSitter Branes in Two Extra Dimensions

5.

Suman Bhattacharya (Los Alamos National Lab)
Galaxy Clusters as a probe of early dark energy

6.

Erminia Calabrese (University of Rome ''La Sapienza'')
Non-Gaussianity in WMAP Data Due to the Correlation of CMB Lensing Potential with Secondary Anisotropies

7.

Kim Coble (Chicago State University)
Probing Student Understanding of Cosmology

8.

Marcus S Cohen (New Mexico State University)
HOW TOPOLOGICAL DEFECTS BREAK SCALE INVARIANCE

9.

Richard I Cook (Brown University)
What can Orthogonal Transfer Imagers do for Weak Lensing?

10.

Abigail Crites (University of Chicago)
Development of Polarization Sensitive Bolometers for SPT-POL

11.

James C Davis (Ohio State University)
Dark Matter searches with IceCube DeepCore

12.

Tijmen de Haan (McGill University)
Calibrating the South Pole Telescope

13.

Damon Farnsworth (University of Minnesota)
Radio Polarization Probes of Cosmic Large Scale Structure

14.

Matthew C Fritts (University of Minnesota)
WIMP Search Results from CDMS II

15.

Natalie N Gandilo (University of Toronto)
Spider: A Suborbital CMB Polarimeter

16.

Thiem Hoang (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Improving the model of emission from spinning dust: effects of grain wobbling and transient spin-up

17.

Loren K Hoffman (Northwestern University)
Orbital Dynamics of Galaxy Merger Remnants

18.

Jimmy Hutasoit (Carnegie Mellon University)
Neutrinos as Dark Matter Candidates

19.

Kenji Kadota (University of Michigan)
Positrons in Cosmic Rays from Dark Matter Annihilations for Uplifted Higgs Regions in MSSM

20.

Rakesh Teja Konduru (SV University Tirupati, India)
A new approach on space-time-matter

21.

Donna Kubik (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)
Development of an automated system to test and select CCDs for the Dark Energy Survey Camera (DECam)

22.

Kyler Kuehn (Argonne National Laboratory)
DECam Prototype Observations for Calibration of the Dark Energy Survey

23.

Michael Mortonson (CCAPP, Ohio State University)
A General Inflation Code for CMB Likelihood Analysis

24.

Kellen J Murphy (Ohio University)
Weak lensing measurements with the HST

25.

Stefania Pandolfi (University of Rome ''La Sapienza'')
Inflation in a general reionization scenario

26.

Andres A. Plazas (University of Pennsylvania)
DES Weak Lensig pipeline tests

27.

Robert V. Poltis (SUNY at Buffalo)
Can primordial magnetic fields seeded by electroweak strings cause an alignment of quasar axes on cosmological scales?

28.

Sijing Shen (McMaster University)
The Enrichment of the Intergalactic Medium with Adiabatic Feedback

29.

Melanie Simet (University of Chicago)
Weak Lensing around Clusters in SDSS Stripe 82

30.

Kyle T Story (University of Chicago)
Measurements and Future Prospects of the Secondary Cosmic Microwave Background Anisotropies with the South Pole Telescope

31.

Paul M Sutter (University of Illinois)
Examining subgrid models of supermassive black holes in cosmological simulation

32.

Matthew P Wiesner (Northern Illinois University)
Studying the Properties of Distant Galaxies Using a Sample of Strong Lenses from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

33.

Rory M Woods (McMaster University)
Cosmological Unbiased Galaxy Formation Simulations Using SPH

34.

Jun Wu (University of Pittsburgh)
Sterile neutrinos as Warm dark matter candidates


  June 15, 2010 - Tuesday

1.

Anna Cabre (University of Pennsylvania)
Dynamical masses of galaxy groups and clusters

2.

Blair Cardigan Smith (McMaster University)
Comparing the Dark Matter Haloes of Group and Field Galaxies

3.

Anbo Chen (University of Michigan)
Analyzing projection contamination in cluster cosmology

4.

Neelam Dhanda (Michigan State University)
Galaxy Cluster survey power in light of mass-observable scatter evolution and constraints on Modified Gravity

5.

Jörg P Dietrich (University of Michigan)
Cosmology with the shear-peak statistics

6.

Emily R Drabek (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)
Spectroscopy Of Two Strong Lensing Clusters

7.

Jon Dudley (McGill University)
Cosmological Parameter Estimation from Galaxy Cluster Abundances

8.

Wenjuan Fang (University of Michigan)
Anisotropic Extinction Distortion of the 3D Galaxy Correlation Function

9.

Loic Guennou (Loic Guennou, LAM/visiting Scholar at Northwestern University)
An alternative method to constrain dark energy: Weak Lensing Tomography in the Direction of Rich Clusters

10.

Jennifer E Helsby (University of Chicago)
Title of the Presentation: An Empirical Characterization of Extended Cool Gas around Galaxies Using MgII Absorption

11.

Aaron S Hoffer (Michigan State University)
Brightest Cluster Galaxies in the Spitzer Archive

12.

Annie Hou (McMaster University)
The Dynamical Evolution of Galaxy Groups

13.

Huan Lin (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)
Cosmic Shear Analysis of the SDSS Stripe 82 Coadd Data

14.

Christopher J MacDonald (University of Pennsylvania)
Photometric Redshift Biases from Galaxy Evolution

15.

Felipe A Marin (University of Chicago)
Modeling the Large Scale Bias of Neutral Hydrogen

16.

Blythe S Moreland (University of Michigan)
Detecting Community Structure with Networks in MaxBCG Clusters

17.

Carolyn C Peruta (Michigan State University)
Galactic Chemical Evolution

18.

Charles Shapiro (Institute of Cosmology & Gravitation (Portsmouth, UK))
Will Multiple Probes of Dark Energy Find Modified Gravity?

19.

Doug Watson (Vanderbilt University)
A COSMIC COINCIDENCE: THE POWER-LAW GALAXY CORRELATION FUNCTION

20.

Eva Wuyts (University of Chicago)
A bright, spatially extended lensed galaxy at z = 1.7 behind the cluster RCS2 0327-1326.