WORKSHOP PROGRAM
  June 14, 2010 - Monday

8:40 am - 8:45 am

WORKSHOP OPENING

 

SESSION 1
Chair: John Carlstrom

8:45 am - 9:15 am

Marco Peloso (University of Minnesota)
Invited Talk: Status of Inflation [PDF]

9:15 am - 9:30 am

Cora Dvorkin (KICP/University of Chicago)
Generalized Slow Roll for Large Power Spectrum Features [PDF]

9:30 am - 9:45 am

Marzieh Farhang (University of Toronto, CITA)
Measuring the Amplitude of Gravitational Waves by CMB Experiments [PDF]

9:45 am - 10:00 am

Michael Milligan (University of Minnesota)
The E and B Experiment (EBEX) [PDF]

10:00 am - 10:15 am

Immanuel Buder (University of Chicago, KICP)
QUIET and QUIET-II: HEMT-based coherent CMB polarimetry [PDF]

10:15 am - 10:30 am

POSTER PRESENTATIONS I
Posters 1 - 15 from Day 1

10:30 am - 11:00 am

COFFEE BREAK

 

SESSION 2
Chair: Jon Sievers

11:00 am - 11:15 am

Amanda C Gault (University of Wisconsin Madison)
The Millimeter-wave Bolometric Interferometer (MBI) [PDF]

11:15 am - 11:30 am

Christopher D Sheehy (University of Chicago)
The Keck array and BICEP2: ground based CMB polarimeters [PDF]

11:30 am - 12:00 pm

Tom Shutt (Case Western Reserve University)
Invited Talk: Dark matter detection: living large

12:00 pm - 12:15 pm

Scott Fallows (University of Minnesota)
The future of CDMS [PDF]

12:15 pm - 12:30 pm

Drew Fustin (KICP, University of Chicago)
Latest dark matter limits from COUPP [PDF]

12:30 pm - 1:30 pm

LUNCH

 

SESSION 3
Chair: Kathryn Schaffer

1:30 pm - 1:45 pm

Antonio J Melgarejo (Columbia University)
First results of the XENON100 detector [PDF]

1:45 pm - 2:15 pm

Carsten Rott (Ohio State University / CCAPP)
Invited Talk: Neutrino Telescopes and the Hunt for Dark Matter [PDF]

2:15 pm - 2:30 pm

Rebecca R Reesman (Ohio State University)
Anisotropy Signatures of Millisecond Pulsars in Diffuse Gamma Ray Emission

2:30 pm - 2:45 pm

Eric J Baxter (University of Chicago)
Constraining Dark Matter in Galactic Substructure [PDF]

2:45 pm - 3:05 pm

POSTER PRESENTATIONS II
Posters 16 - 35 from Day 1

3:05 pm - 3:45 pm

COFFEE BREAK & POSTERS VIEWING

 

SESSION 4
Chair: Brian O'Shea

3:45 pm - 4:15 pm

Tiziana Di Matteo (Carnegie Mellon University)
Invited Talk: Structure Formation in the Early Universe: the build-up of supermassive black holes

4:15 pm - 4:30 pm

Nick Battaglia (University of Toronto, CITA)
Simulations of Large-Scale Structure with AGN Feedback [PDF]

4:30 pm - 4:45 pm

Colin DeGraf (Carnegie Mellon University)
Small Scale Quasar Clustering from Hydrodynamic Simulations [PDF]

4:45 pm - 5:00 pm

Nachiketa Chakraborty (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
The Primordial Lithium Problem: Can We Avoid New Phyiscs? [PDF]

6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

BANQUET DINNER
at the Adler Planetarium

8:15 pm - 9:45 pm

VISUALIZATION SESSION


  June 15, 2010 - Tuesday

 

SESSION 1
Chair: Mark Subbarao

9:00 am - 9:30 am

Keith Vanderlinde (McGill University)
Invited Talk: An SZ-selected Cluster Catalog from the South Pole Telescope [PDF]

9:30 am - 9:45 am

Lindsey Bleem (University of Chicago)
An Overview of SPT-POL [PDF]

9:45 am - 10:00 am

Hsiang-Yi Karen Yang (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
The Impact of Cluster Structure and Dynamical State on Scatter in the SZ Flux-Mass Relation [PDF]

10:00 am - 10:15 am

Ryan Keisler (University of Chicago)
The mm-wave Emission of Galaxy Clusters and Implications for SZE Surveys [PDF]

10:15 am - 10:30 am

Erwin T Lau (University of Chicago)
Shape of Intracluster Gas as Probe of Cluster Physics [PDF]

10:30 am - 11:00 am

COFFEE BREAK

 

SESSION 2
Chair: Jeffrey Kubo

11:00 am - 11:30 am

Megan Donahue (Michigan State University)
Invited Talk: Baryon Fractions in Clusters of Galaxies

11:30 am - 11:45 am

Luke Leisman (Calvin College)
Connecting Brightest Cluster Galaxies and Core Gas [PDF]

11:45 am - 12:00 pm

Alexander van Engelen (McGill University)
On the Cosmological Baryon Fraction [PDF]

12:00 pm - 12:15 pm

Megan B Gralla (University of Chicago)
SZA Observations of Strong Lensing Galaxy Clusters [PDF]

12:15 pm - 12:30 pm

Matthew B Bayliss (University of Chicago/KICP)
Strong Lensing Clusters in RCS-2 and the SDSS: Statistics and Properties of Lenses and Lensed Sources [PDF]

12:30 pm - 1:30 pm

LUNCH

 

SESSION 3
Chair: Carla Frohlich

1:30 pm - 1:45 pm

Mark Wyman (Perimeter Institute)
Enhanced Peculiar Velocities in Brane-Induced Gravity [PDF]

1:45 pm - 2:00 pm

Farzad Sadjadi (School of Physics & Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)
Effects of substructure distribution along the line of sight in multi-plane gravitational lensing simulations.

2:00 pm - 2:15 pm

Matthew R Becker (University of Chicago)
NlogN Multiple-plane Ray Tracing on the Sphere [PDF]

2:15 pm - 2:45 pm

Steve Kuhlmann (Argonne National Laboratory)
Invited Talk: Challenges for Future Supernova Surveys [PDF]

2:45 pm - 3:00 pm

Amy Y Lien (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
The Cosmic Supernova Inventory from Future Sky Surveys: Cosmic Star Formation, Neutrinos, and Invisible Collapse [PDF]

3:00 pm - 3:20 pm

POSTER PRESENTATIONS
Posters 1 - 20 for Day 2

3:20 pm - 4:00 pm

COFFEE BREAK & POSTERS VIEWING

 

SESSION 4
Chair: Jennifer Sobeck

4:00 pm - 4:30 pm

Michael Wood-Vasey (University of Pittsburgh)
Invited Talk: Supernovae and other Transients from Pan-STARRS1 and Future Surveys [PDF]

4:30 pm - 4:45 pm

David Chamulak (Argonne National Labortaory)
How standard is the candle?: A theoretical look at metallicity effects in Type Ia supernovae. [PDF]

4:45 pm - 5:00 pm

Ravi R. Gupta (University of Pennsylvania)
Constraining SN Ia Host Galaxy Properties Using Multi-wavelength Photometry [PDF]

5:00 pm - 5:15 pm

Benedikt Diemer (University of Chicago)
Confronting Simulations and Observations of Type Ia Supernovae [PDF]

5:15 pm - 5:30 pm

Amir Shahmoradi (Michigan Tech University)
Gamma-Ray Bursts as Cosmological Tools [PDF]


  June 16, 2010 - Wednesday

 

SESSION 1
Chair: Joseph Bernstein

8:45 am - 9:15 am

Christy A Tremonti (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Invited Talk: The Role of Feedback in Galaxy Formation

9:15 am - 9:30 am

Alexander L Muratov (University of Michigan)
The Cosmological Origin of The Globular Cluster Metallicity Distribution [PDF]

9:30 am - 9:45 am

Sam N Leitner (University of Chicago)
Fuel Efficient Galaxies: Sustaining Star Forming Disks with Gas Recycling [PDF]

9:45 am - 10:00 am

Robert Feldmann (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)
The Morphological Evolution of Group Galaxies

10:00 am - 10:15 am

Sarah L Nickerson (McMaster University)
Shedding Light on Dark Satellites [PDF]

10:15 am - 10:45 am

COFFEE BREAK

 

SESSION 2
Chair: Loren Hoffman

10:45 am - 11:15 am

Ue-Li Pen (Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics)
Invited Talk: 21cm cosmology [PDF]

11:15 am - 11:30 am

Nishikanta Khandai (Carnegie Mellon University)
On Detecting HI in emission at z=1 [PDF]

11:30 am - 11:45 am

Smadar Naoz (Northwestern University)
Gas in the first generation of galaxies [PDF]

11:45 am - 12:00 pm

Jean-Rene Gauthier (University of Chicago/OCIW)
Constraining the gas content of dark matter halos [PDF]

12:00 pm - 12:45 pm

LUNCH

12:45 pm - 1:55 pm

CAREER DEVELOPMENT

1:55 pm - 2:00 pm

BREAK

 

SESSION 3
Chair: Stephan Meyer

2:00 pm - 2:30 pm

Carlos Cunha (University of Michigan)
Invited Talk: Photometric redshift statistics or how to avoid biased cosmological constraints [PDF]

2:30 pm - 2:45 pm

Andrew Hearin (University of Pittsburgh)
The Influence of Catastrophic Photo-z Errors on Cosmology with Cosmic Shear [PDF]

2:45 pm - 3:00 pm

Daniel J Matthews (University of Pittsburgh)
Reconstructing Redshift Distributions with Cross-Correlations [PDF]

3:00 pm - 3:15 pm

Brett Ragozzine (Ohio University)
Weak Lensing Results of the Merger A1758 [PDF]

3:15 pm - 3:30 pm

Ali Vanderveld (Caltech/JPL)
Gravitational lensing with HALO

3:30 pm - 4:00 pm

COFFEE BREAK & POSTERS VIEWING

 

SESSION 4
Chair: Andrew Zentner

4:00 pm - 4:30 pm

Hee-Jong Seo (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)
Invited Talk: High-precision predictions for the acoustic scale in the non-linear regime. [PDF]

4:30 pm - 4:45 pm

Chris Orban (Ohio State University)
Self-similar Bumps and Wiggles: Isolating the Evolution of the BAO Peak with Power-law Initial Conditions [PDF]

4:45 pm - 5:00 pm

Yan-Chuan Cai (University of Pennsylvania)
Minimizing bias stochasticity

5:00 pm - 5:15 pm

Molly S Peeples (Ohio State University)
Can SPH correctly solve for hydrostatic equilibrium? [PDF]

5:15 pm - 5:30 pm

Amanda Yoho (Case Western Reserve University)
Degree Scale Anomalies in the CMB: Localizing the Dip in the First Peak to the North Ecliptic Pole [PDF]