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)

1 The impact of supernova peculiar velocities on cosmology past and future

Speaker: Ali Vanderveld (Caltech)

2 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

3 Signatures of pseudoscalar-photon mixing in CMB polarization

Speaker: Mr Doug McKay (University of Kansas)

4 Nonlinear cosmological power spectra in Einstein's gravity

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

5 Including unknown unknowns in Bayesian model selection

Speaker: Pascal Vaudrevange (Case Western Reserve University)

Slides presentation-Pascal-M-Vaudrevange.pdf

3:40 PM Break

6 Measurements of CMB Polarization with the QUaD Experiment

Speaker: Sarah Church (Stanford University/KIPAC)

7 Analysis of QUaD data

Speaker: Clem Pryke (University of Chicago)

8 Admissible symmetries of the electromagnetic field in LRS spacetimes

Speaker: Stephen Watt (University of Western Ontario)

Slides 2008-cosmo-poynting-talk.pdf

9 Stochastic Backgrounds of Gravitational Waves from Cosmological Sources

Speaker: Larry Price (University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee)

Slides lprice_COSMO08.pdf

10 Gravitational Wave Production by Bubble Collisions

Speaker: Thomas Konstandin (IFAE, Barcelona)

Slides Konstandin_Cosmo08.pdf.pdf

11 Revealing the High-Redshift Star Formation Rate with Gamma-Ray Bursts (good entry)

Speaker: Hassan Yuksel (University of Delaware)

Slides cosmo08-yuksel.pdf

12 Revealing the High-Redshift Star Formation Rate with Gamma-Ray Bursts

Speaker: Hassan Yuksel (University of Delaware)

7:00 PM Evening Plenary Session - See Plenary Schedule