Parallel 3 - Dark Energy & Modified Gravity

Monday Aug 25, 2008, 2:00 PM → 7:00 PM America/Chicago

Hall of Ideas I

Nissan Itzhaki (Tel Aviv Uni.)

2:00 PM → 2:18 PM K-Essence, superluminal propagation, causality and emergent geometry

Speaker: Alexander Vikman (New York University)

2:20 PM → 2:38 PM Regular DGP in the core of a hyper-monopole

Speaker: Antonio De Felice (Louvain University)

2:40 PM → 2:58 PM Stars and Solar System constraints in extended gravity theories

Speaker: Daniel Sunhede (University of Jyväskylä)

Slides DanielSunhedeCosmo08.pdf

3:00 PM → 3:18 PM Precision Probes of Modified Gravity with Weak Lensing

Speaker: Fabian Schmidt (University of Chicago)

Slides _COSMO08-FabianSchmidt.pdf

3:20 PM → 3:38 PM Searching for modified growth patterns with tomographic surveys

Speaker: Gong-Bo Zhao (Simon Fraser University)

Slides cosmo08_Gongbo.ppt

3:40 PM → 4:00 PM Break

4:00 PM → 4:18 PM Cosmological Backreaction from Scalar Fields and Perturbations

Speaker: Iain Brown (ITP, Heidelberg)

Slides Cosmo08_-_Madison_-_Averaging_Roberston-Walker_Cosmologies.pdf

4:20 PM → 4:38 PM Structure Formation in f(R) Gravity Consistent with Solar-System Tests

Speaker: Ignacy Sawicki (New York University / CCPP)

4:40 PM → 4:58 PM Can dark energy have a color?

Speaker: Dejan Stojkovic (SUNY at Buffalo)

ppt Cosmo_08.pptx

Video 2001-09-c-low_mpeg.mpg sm_mpegW.WMV

5:00 PM → 5:18 PM Restraining void models for acceleration

Speaker: James Zibin (University of British Columbia)

Slides cosmo08zibin.pdf

5:20 PM → 5:38 PM Overview of the Dark Energy Survey

Speaker: K. Wyatt Merritt (Fermilab)

Slides merrittCosmo08.pdf

6:00 PM → 7:00 PM Reception & Poster Session