| Sunday,
April 11 |
| 7:00 PM |
Reception at Hilton |
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Monday,
April 12
Supernovae, the Accelerating Universe, Dark Energy |
| 8:00 AM |
Continental breakfast |
| 8:45 AM |
Welcoming remarks
Edward Fry (Head, Department of Physics)
James Calvin (Associate Vice President for Research)
Joseph Newton (Dean, College of Science)
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morning session chaired by Robert Webb
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| 9:00 AM |
Saul Perlmutter, University of California at Berkeley
"Supernovae, Dark Energy, and the Future"
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| 9:50 AM |
Nick Suntzeff, Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory
"Fourteen Years of Observational Cosmology with Supernovae" |
| 10:35 AM |
Break |
| 11:00 AM |
Robert Kirshner, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
"Supernovae and the New Cosmology"
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| 11:45 AM |
Alex Filippenko, University of California at Berkeley
"The Lick Observatory Supernova Search, and Studies of Nearby Type Ia Supernovae"
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| 12:30 PM |
Discussion with coffee, tea, and light refreshments |
| 1:15 PM |
Lunch |
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afternoon session chaired by James White
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| 2:45 PM |
Sean Carroll, University of Chicago
"Dark Energy, or Worse?"
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| 3:30 PM |
Break |
| 4:00 PM |
Public talk by Robert Kirshner, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
"The Extravagant Universe"
Room 701, Rudder Tower
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| 5:00 PM |
Adam Riess, Space Telescope Science Institute
"Kinematics and Dark Energy from Supernovae at z>1"
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| 5:45 PM |
David Cline, University of California at Los Angeles
"Progress in the Search for Dark Matter and Comments on Dark Energy Studies" |
6:30 PM
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Break for dinner
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| 8:00 PM |
Public talk by Joseph Silk, Oxford University
"The Big Bang"
Rudder Theatre
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chaired by Alex Filippenko
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Tuesday,
April 13
Cosmic Background Radiation and Galaxy Formation |
| 8:00 AM |
Continental breakfast |
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morning session chaired by Robert Tribble
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| 9:00 AM |
Ned Wright, University of California at Los Angeles
"Recent Measurements of the Cosmic Microwave Background" |
| 9:45 AM |
Craig Wheeler, University of Texas
"Asymmetric Supernovae: New Physics and Cosmological Implications" |
| 10:30 AM |
Break |
| 11:00 AM |
Joseph Silk, Oxford University
"Unveiling the Universe"
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| 11:45 AM |
Uros Seljak, Princeton University
"Cosmology with Sloan Digital Sky Survey"
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| 12:30 PM |
Lunch |
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afternoon session chaired by David Toback
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| 2:00 PM |
Rachel Bean, Princeton University
"Probing for dark energy perturbations using CMB and LSS" |
| 2:30 PM |
Eiichiro Komatsu, Princeton and University of Texas
"The Early Universe as seen by WMAP -- Approaching the Inflationary Paradigm" |
| 3:00 PM |
David Hogg, New York University
"The present-day creation rate of elliptical and bulge-dominated galaxies" |
| 3:30 PM |
Michael Blanton, New York University
"Galaxy structure, star-formation and environment"
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| 4:00 PM |
Break |
| 4:30 PM |
Sarah Higdon, Cornell University
"Exploring the High Redshift Universe
with the Spitzer Space Telescope"
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| 5:00 PM |
Ivan Baldry, Johns Hopkins University
"Color bimodality: Implications for galaxy evolution" |
| 5:30 PM |
Ryan Scranton, University of Pittsburgh
"Looking for Dark Energy with SDSS and WMAP"
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| 6:00 PM |
Break for dinner |
| 7:30 PM |
Public talk by Alex Filippenko,
University of California at Berkeley
"Einstein's Biggest Blunder? The Case for Cosmic Antigravity"
Room 601, Rudder Tower
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chaired by Neta Bahcall
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Wednesday,
April 14
Galaxies and Large Scale Structure |
| 8:00 AM |
Continental breakfast |
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morning session chaired by David Hyland and James Higdon
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| 9:00 AM |
Neta Bahcall, Princeton University
"Cosmology with Clusters of Galaxies"
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| 9:45 AM |
Max Tegmark, University of Pennsylvania
"Cosmology with the SDSS, WMAP, and SN Ia" |
| 10:30 AM |
Break |
| 11:00 AM |
Richard Ellis, California Institute of Technology
"Exploring the Evolution of Structure with Gravitational Lensing" |
| 11:45 AM |
Alex Szalay, Johns Hopkins University
"The Large Scale Clustering of Galaxies in the SDSS" |
| 12:30 PM |
Lunch |
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afternoon session chaired by David Lambert
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2:00 PM |
Rachel Somerville, Space Telescope Science Institute
"The Cold Dark Matter Power Paradox: small scale structure, the first
galaxies, and early reionization" |
| 2:45 PM |
Tereasa Brainerd, Boston University
"Halos of Field Galaxies: Dynamics vs. Weak Lensing" |
| 3:30 PM |
Break |
| 4:00 PM |
Scott Dodelson, Fermilab and University of Chicago
"Dark Energy, Clusters, and Gravitational Lensing" |
| 4:30 PM |
Lloyd Knox, University of California at Davis
"Forecasted gravitational lensing constraints on neutrino masses and
dark energy" |
| 5:00 PM |
Chung-Pei Ma, University of California at Berkeley
"Understanding Dark Matter Distribution from a Kinetic View"
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| 5:30 PM |
Xiaohui Fan, University of Arizona
"The Highest Redshift Quasars"
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| 6:00 PM |
Public talk by Neta Bahcall, Princeton University
"The Cosmic Triangle"
Room 601, Rudder Tower
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chaired by John Hardy
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| 8:00 PM |
Banquet at Christopher's |
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Thursday,
April 15
Dark Matter, Galaxies, Big Bang Nucleosynthesis |
| 8:00 AM |
Continental breakfast |
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morning session chaired by Richard Arnowitt
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9:00 AM |
Marc Kamionkowski, California Institute of Technology
"New views of particle dark matter" |
| 9:45 AM |
Richard Schnee, Case Western Reserve University
"The Cryogenic Dark Matter Search"
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| 10:35 AM |
Break |
| 11:00 AM |
Avishai Dekel, Racah Institute, Hebrew University
"Characteristic Scales in Galaxy Formation" |
| 11:45 AM |
Paul Shapiro, University of Texas
"Cosmological Reionization and the End of the Dark Ages" |
| 12:30 PM |
Lunch |
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afternoon session chaired by Dimitri Nanopoulos
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2:00 PM |
Keith Olive, University of Minnesota
"Big Bang Nucleosynthesis in the post-WMAP era" |
| 2:45 PM |
David Lambert, McDonald Observatory and University of Texas
"The lithium isotopic ratio in very metal-poor dwarf stars - A problem
for standard big bang nucleosynthesis?" |
| 3:30 PM |
Break |
| 4:00 PM |
Inese Ivans, California Institute of Technology
"Tracing Supernovae Progenitors Using the Observed
Chemical Signatures in
Low Metallicity Stars" |
| 4:30 PM |
Gary Hill, McDonald Observatory and University of Texas
"The Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment" |
| 5:00 PM |
James Higdon, Cornell University
"Exploring Galaxy Clusters In The Infrared"
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| 5:30 PM |
Break for dinner |
| 7:30 PM |
Public talk by Mario Livio, Space Telescope Science Institute
"Beauty in a Dark Universe"
Room 601, Rudder Tower
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chaired by George Kattawar
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Friday, April 16
Gravitational and Astroparticle Physics |
| 8:00 AM |
Continental breakfast |
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morning session chaired by Vitaly Kocharovsky
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9:00 AM |
Rainer Weiss, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
"Current state of gravitational wave detection by interferometry on the Earth and in space" |
| 9:45 AM |
Richard Arnowitt, Texas A&M University
"Dark Matter, Particle Physics, and Cosmology" |
| 10:30 AM |
Break |
| 11:00 AM |
Francis Halzen, University of Wisconsin
"Neutrino Astronomy" |
| 11:45 AM |
Dimitri Nanopoulos, Texas A&M University
"WMaping Dark Matter, SuperSymmetry, and Proton Decay" |
| 12:30 PM |
Lunch |
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afternoon session chaired by Livius Trache
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2:00 PM |
Marlan Scully, Texas A&M University
"Enhancing the Davies-DeWitt-Fulling-Unruh Acceleration Radiation with Cavity QED"
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| 2:45 PM |
Wayne Saslow, Texas A&M University
"Post-Recombination Radiation Drag on Neutral Matter" |
| 3:15 PM |
Break |
| 3:45 PM |
Kyungjin Ahn, University of Texas
"The Origin of the Equilibrium Structure of Halos in a Cold Dark Matter Universe" |
| 4:15 PM |
Alexey Belyanin, Texas A&M University
"Primordial Black Hole Haloes Around Globular Clusters and Population III Stars" |
| 4:45 PM |
Break for dinner |
| 7:30 PM |
Public talk by John Kormendy, University of Texas
"Supermassive Black Holes"
Room 601, Rudder Tower
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chaired by Sara Higdon
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