Parallel 5 - CMB & LSS/Gravity Waves

Tuesday Aug 26, 2008, 2:00 PM → 9:40 PM America/Chicago

Hall of Ideas H

Christoph Schmidt (ETH Zurich)

2:00 PM → 2:18 PM The impact of supernova peculiar velocities on cosmology past and future

Speaker: Ali Vanderveld (Caltech)

2:20 PM → 2:38 PM Perturbation Theory Reloaded : Non-linear Bias, Baryon Acoustic Oscillations and Millennium Simulation

Speaker: Donghui Jeong (The University of Texas at Austin)

Slides cosmo08_djeong.pdf

2:40 PM → 2:58 PM Signatures of pseudoscalar-photon mixing in CMB polarization

Speaker: Mr Doug McKay (University of Kansas)

3:00 PM → 3:18 PM Nonlinear cosmological power spectra in Einstein's gravity

Speaker: Jai-chan Hwang (Kyungpook National Univ.)

3:20 PM → 3:38 PM Including unknown unknowns in Bayesian model selection

Speaker: Pascal Vaudrevange (Case Western Reserve University)

Slides presentation-Pascal-M-Vaudrevange.pdf

3:40 PM → 4:00 PM Break

4:00 PM → 4:18 PM Measurements of CMB Polarization with the QUaD Experiment

Speaker: Sarah Church (Stanford University/KIPAC)

4:20 PM → 4:38 PM Analysis of QUaD data

Speaker: Clem Pryke (University of Chicago)

4:40 PM → 4:58 PM Admissible symmetries of the electromagnetic field in LRS spacetimes

Speaker: Stephen Watt (University of Western Ontario)

Slides 2008-cosmo-poynting-talk.pdf

5:00 PM → 5:18 PM Stochastic Backgrounds of Gravitational Waves from Cosmological Sources

Speaker: Larry Price (University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee)

Slides lprice_COSMO08.pdf

5:20 PM → 5:38 PM Gravitational Wave Production by Bubble Collisions

Speaker: Thomas Konstandin (IFAE, Barcelona)

Slides Konstandin_Cosmo08.pdf.pdf

5:40 PM → 5:58 PM Revealing the High-Redshift Star Formation Rate with Gamma-Ray Bursts (good entry)

Speaker: Hassan Yuksel (University of Delaware)

Slides cosmo08-yuksel.pdf

5:56 PM → 6:14 PM Revealing the High-Redshift Star Formation Rate with Gamma-Ray Bursts

Speaker: Hassan Yuksel (University of Delaware)

7:00 PM → 9:40 PM Evening Plenary Session - See Plenary Schedule