Parallel 3 - Dark Energy & Modified Gravity
Monday Aug 25, 2008, 2:00 PM
→
7:00 PM
America/Chicago
Hall of Ideas I
Hall of Ideas I
Nissan Itzhaki
(
Tel Aviv Uni.
)
1
K-Essence, superluminal propagation, causality and emergent geometry
Hall of Ideas I
Hall of Ideas I
Speaker
:
Alexander Vikman
(
New York University
)
2
Regular DGP in the core of a hyper-monopole
Hall of Ideas I
Hall of Ideas I
Speaker
:
Antonio De Felice
(
Louvain University
)
3
Stars and Solar System constraints in extended gravity theories
Hall of Ideas I
Hall of Ideas I
Speaker
:
Daniel Sunhede
(
University of Jyväskylä
)
Slides
4
Precision Probes of Modified Gravity with Weak Lensing
Hall of Ideas I
Hall of Ideas I
Speaker
:
Fabian Schmidt
(
University of Chicago
)
Slides
5
Searching for modified growth patterns with tomographic surveys
Hall of Ideas I
Hall of Ideas I
Speaker
:
Gong-Bo Zhao
(
Simon Fraser University
)
Slides
3:40 PM
Break
Outside Lecture Hall
Outside Lecture Hall
6
Cosmological Backreaction from Scalar Fields and Perturbations
Hall of Ideas I
Hall of Ideas I
Speaker
:
Iain Brown
(
ITP, Heidelberg
)
Slides
7
Structure Formation in f(R) Gravity Consistent with Solar-System Tests
Hall of Ideas I
Hall of Ideas I
Speaker
:
Ignacy Sawicki
(
New York University / CCPP
)
8
Can dark energy have a color?
Hall of Ideas I
Hall of Ideas I
Speaker
:
Dejan Stojkovic
(
SUNY at Buffalo
)
ppt
Video
9
Restraining void models for acceleration
Hall of Ideas I
Hall of Ideas I
Speaker
:
James Zibin
(
University of British Columbia
)
Slides
10
Overview of the Dark Energy Survey
Hall of Ideas I
Hall of Ideas I
Speaker
:
K. Wyatt Merritt
(
Fermilab
)
Slides
6:00 PM
Reception & Poster Session
Grand Terrace
Grand Terrace